The Red Wolves claimed an early lead before the Panthers responded with seven unanswered runs to seal a 7-1 defeat on Sunday afternoon at Tomlinson Stadium-Slayton Family Field.

Arkansas State baseball’s three-game series against Eastern Illinois has been altered due to winter weather, with the Friday and Saturday matchups now being packaged as a doubleheader on Monday, February 24.

When Bielema took over at Arkansas, he accepted the job knowing there was a mess to clean up in the wake of Bobby Petrino’s for-cause firing in 2012. And when he was hired at Illinois, he was tasked with revitalizing a program with no recent winning culture.

Coming off a one-point home loss to Lindenwood on Thursday night, Arkansas-Little Rock came out of the gates sluggish in its matchup with Western Illinois on Saturday afternoon in Little Rock.

Elsewhere in the region, SLU resumed its bid for a Top 4 seed in the Atlantic 10 Tournament by defeating Rhode Island at home and streaking SEMO closed its home schedule with two victories to clinch a share of the Ohio Valley Conference regular season title.

Lindenwood closed the game on an 11-3 run in the final 4:43 to pull away in a 60-51 victory to complete the season sweep over Arkansas-Little Rock on Thursday night at the Jack Stephens Center in Little Rock.

Duke basketball and Illinois meet at Madison Square Garden in New York City this weekend. Here are some things to know and a prediction.

• Arkansas has seven players who are batting over .333 with at least 15 at-bats: Ellis (.583), Atalyia Rijo (.474), Raigan Kramer (.444), Kailey Wyckoff (.419), Courtney Day (.381), Kennedy Miller (.375) and Ella McDowell (.345).