Kevin Kopps piled up a lot of pitches in leading Arkansas to the championship of the NCAA Fayetteville Regional. But he didn’t eclipse Charley Boyce’s numbers from 2004.
Kopps got close enough with three outstanding games — all Arkansas victories — in sending the Razorbacks to another super regional that Boyce’s name came up in the postgame discussion.
“It always seems to come up,” Boyce said Tuesday. “I know it’s going to happen again.”
Most remember that 2004 regional two ways.
First, it included the grand slam hit by Brady Toops to lift the Hogs past Wichita State in an elimination game.