FAYETTEVILLE -- Hispanic sports fans of Arkansas athletics need to know that thanks to La Tremenda (99.5-FM), the voice of Razorbacks sports continues to have a Spanish accent.

One can add baseball to the list to an ever-increasing influence.

La Tremenda broadcast its first of three Razorbacks baseball games on April 8 when Arkansas hosted Mississippi State in Baum Stadium. Also scheduled are the Arkansas-LSU game May 6 and the Arkansas-Ole Miss regular season finale on May 19.

Carlos Chicas, 34, and Jose Lopez, 45, provide the play-by-play and color commentary for the broadcasts in Northwest Arkansas.

"Our goal is to broadcast every single sport that we have in Spanish," Chicas said. "For two reasons. One, it's good for the community and two, we personally, want to see more Latinos in baseball. Now that we have (former Springdale High placekicker) Alex Tejada (who signed with Arkansas) playing next year, there's a growing interest.

"We've excited and we appreciate the opportunity we have. Baseball to the Latino community is big. The thing we want the community to know, there is an opportunity to play baseball. We want Hispanics to be involved in baseball as well as the other sports we have here at the university."

The Latin broadcasts started with Lady Razorback basketball, and now includes almost all UA sports.

Lopez and Chicas created the broadcast team about a year ago, said Lopez.

"Carlos kept me in mind to do Lady'Backs soccer and basketball," said Lopez. "Well, basically the communication is good. We work well together." Matt Shanklin, associate athletic director and general manager of the Razorbacks baseball radio network, said that was a selling point.

"We're excited," he said. "Not only finding a station which is open to doing the games, but having talent for doing the games.

"We've always thought with the growing Hispanic population in Northwest Arkansas, there's clearly a market we need to get our product out to."