FAYETTEVILLE - No losses are fun in baseball. Especially the ones where you blow a nine-run lead.

Just ask Arkansas.

On their way to what appeared to be an easy win in front of 3,709 at Baum Stadium on Saturday, the Razorbacks saw a perfect start turn into a perfect storm. And the result was one of the toughest losses in school history in a 15-11 setback against Georgia.

"It's just disappointing," Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. "To come out and swing the bats as we did early, they swung it equally as well or even better at the end of the game."

Arkansas hadn't give up this big a lead since losing 8-7 at Florida on March 19, 2006. In that game, the Diamond Hogs led 7-0, before falling apart.

Saturday, the Razorbacks (12-4, 1-1) went half the game looking like a win was an automatic. Building a 10-1 lead with home runs from Logan Forsythe, Aaron Murphree and Andy Wilkins, Arkansas was cruising. And so was starting pitcher Shaun Seibert, who went into the sixth inning in complete control.

But as quickly as Arkansas erupted on the Bulldogs (7-7, 1-1), the Hogs saw the tables turn.

Scoring four times in the sixth inning - including three unearned runs - Georgia fought back to 10-5. Then in the seventh, the Bulldogs' bats tore through Arkansas pitchers Dallas Keuchel and Travis Hill.

Seven runs later, Georgia had all the momentum, a 12-10 lead and was on its way to a wild, wild win.

"We broke through, but that wasn't the kicker," Bulldogs coach David Perno said. "We had to stop them. I mean we couldn't stop them.

"And that was the key, getting a stop, an easy inning."

Georgia got several easy innings after taking the lead - giving up just one run after the fifth. And now, instead of thinking sweep, the Razorbacks are forced to regroup if they even hope to win the three-game series.

"(Sunday) is a huge game," Forsythe said. "We either take the series or lose the series.

"We'll find out which team is the toughest and we need the guys as a team, we need everybody to come out ready and with a lot of intensity. Today, we came out for five or six innings and thought, oh we've got a 10-1 lead, we're comfortable. So we've got to come out and have everybody, defensively and offensively and put the game away."