The unlikely run through the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament continued for the Arkansas-Little Rock baseball team as it picked up its third straight win in less than 30 hours by edging top-seeded Eastern Illinois 9-8 in 10 innings Thursday afternoon at Mountain Dew Park in Marion, Ill.
UALR (22-32) entered the tournament seeded eighth out of eight teams and had lost 13 out its previous 14 games to close the regular season. The Trojans advanced through the single-elimination rounds by knocking off fifth-seeded Southern Indiana 10-1 and fourth-seeded Southeast Missouri State 9-7 on Wednesday.
The win marks the first time the lowest-seeded team in the field has opened the OVC Tournament with three consecutive wins in the neutral site era that dates back to 2001.