FAYETTEVILLE - Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn hoped his Razorbacks would use their Tuesday night game against Oral Roberts to regain confidence after losing two of three to Auburn.

So much for that. The Golden Eagles dominated the Hogs in every facet of the game throughout a 9-4 victory before 1,034 fans at Baum Stadium.

"We just didn't get it done," Van Horn said. "There's nothing I can really elaborate on."

The Razorbacks (17-14) didn't face a midweek patsy in trying to accomplish Van Horn's wishes.

Oral Roberts, which has won 10 straight conference championships, has lost only at Texas and at Wichita State since March 21. The Golden Eagles possessed nonconference wins over Baylor and at Pepperdine before their trip to Fayetteville, and ORU coach Rob Walton said that experience helped his team improve to 21-7.

"The only way you can improve is to play good people," Walton said. "We've set up our schedule that way."

For at least three innings Tuesday night, Arkansas seemed on track to get back into the win column after blowing a six-run lead Sunday to Auburn. The Razorbacks took a 2-1 lead when freshman Brett Eibner led off the second inning with a solo home run and freshman Jacob House scored on a throwing error.

Redshirt freshman pitcher Sam Murphy went into the fourth inning having allowed just one run on a sacrifice fly, but it didn't take long for things to unravel from there. ORU's Brian Van Kirk scored in the fourth on a two-out infield single by Kyle Price to tie the game at 2. The Golden Eagles then scored three times in the fifth and three times in the sixth to build an 8-2 lead.

Brendan Duffy opened the fifth with a double down the right-field line and scored on Ryan Groth's sacrifice fly to put ORU up 3-2. Oral Roberts then plated its last two runs in the fifth because of a costly miscommunication between Razorbacks second baseman Ben Tschepikow and shortstop Tim Smalling.

With two outs and runners on first and second, ORU's Pat Murray hit a slow roller up the middle. Smalling and Tschepikow each could have gotten to the ball. But as they converged, they looked at each other seemingly confused about who would actually field the ball.

It slowly dribbled between them into center field and Kelly Minissale scored. David Genao then smacked a 2-2 pitch into the left-field corner for an RBI double that scored Van Kirk and put the Golden Eagles up 5-2.

"Instead of being in the dugout down one run, we're in there down three," Van Horn said. "You have two guys there who are older and have been there, and they need to communicate a bit. That was probably the most disappointing play of the game for me."

Arkansas seriously threatened at the plate just two more times, scoring single runs in the seventh and eighth innings. The Hogs loaded the bases in the seventh with one out but could only manage junior Logan Forsythe's 395-foot sacrifice fly to center field. Eibner struck out one batter later with the bases loaded to end the inning.

House scored on a two-out balk in the eighth, but Arkansas couldn't capitalize further.

"We had guys on base," Van Horn said. "We needed to get a (timely) hit, and we didn't get it."