FAYETTEVILLE -- The University of Arkansas baseball team's bats awakened from a slumber Friday afternoon at Baum-Walker Stadium.
The Razorbacks had 13 hits -- including home runs by Heston Kjerstad and Trevor Ezell -- to beat Central Connecticut State 11-5 in the NCAA Fayetteville Regional opener before an announced crowd of 9,858.
Arkansas (42-17) will play TCU, which defeated California in Friday's late game, at 6 tonight. CCSU (30-22) will play Cal in an elimination game at noon today.
Going into the regional, the No. 5-ranked Razorbacks went 20 for 127 -- a .157 batting average -- in their previous four games when they lost at Texas A&M and went 1-2 in the SEC Tournament.