FAYETTEVILLE — With one swing of his bat in the eighth inning Saturday, LSU three-hole hitter Antoine Duplantis lifted his team’s spirits and kept the skidding Tigers from a completely lost weekend.
Duplaintis’ three-run blast off Razorback reliever Jacob Kostyshock proved to the game-winning blow as LSU rallied for a 3-2 win before a crowd of 11,037 at Baum-Walker Stadium.
It kept No. 4 and SEC Western Division leading Arkansas (39-13, 19-8) from a sweep and taking over the overall conference lead from Vanderbilt and ended a five-game losing streak for No. 15 LSU (31-21, 15-12).
“It was unbelievably huge,” Duplantis said.