Tennessee’s baseball team has been one of the most successful in the nation over the past half decade, winning at least 44 games each year, reaching the College World Series three times and winning the national championship in 2024.

Unfortunately for the Vols, their opponent in this season’s Super Regional was Arkansas, one of the few teams to consistently trouble Tennessee during its recent run of success.

The Razorbacks once again proved too much for the Vols this weekend at the Fayetteville Super Regional, knocking Tennessee out of the NCAA Tournament with consecutive wins in front of the Hogs’ “Pig-Sooie-ing” home crowd.

Arkansas ended Tennessee’s reign as champions with an 11-4 win Sunday, which came one day after the Razorbacks edged the Vols 4-3.

UT (46-19) is now 2-13 under coach Tony Vitello against Arkansas since 2018, and the Vols are 1-10 at Walker-Baum Stadium during that stretch.

A week after piling up 36 runs in four games while winning the Knoxville Regional, Tennessee was limited to a combined seven runs on 11 hits in two contests against the Razorbacks.

The Vols had hoped starter Liam Doyle, the SEC pitcher of the year, might be enough to even the Super Regional on Sunday.

But Doyle (10-4), who threw 135 pitches in two regional appearances last weekend, surrendered a two-run homer to Charles Davalan — a blast that gave Arkansas a 2-0 lead in the top of the third inning.

Doyle was pulled after 3-2/3 innings, charged with five earned runs on five hits, two walks and two wild pitches, while striking out six.

Arkansas’ big blow came in the fourth, when Logan Maxwell smacked an opposite-field, grand-slam home run to put the Razorbacks up 7-1. The homer came off Franklin’s AJ Russell, who was charged with one run, giving up one hit and two walks in 2-1/3 innings.

The Razorbacks tacked on three runs in the eighth, two coming on bases-loaded walks.

UT scored single runs in the third and eight innings, adding two in the ninth on Jay Abernathy’s two-run homer. But the Vols left seven runners on base in the contest, going three-for-11 with runners in scoring position.

Arkansas won four of five games against the Vols this year, outscoring Tennessee 38-27. All of those contests were played in Fayetteville.