The final stretch of Joey Lorenzini’s trip to Fayetteville, where he would soon enroll in summer classes at Arkansas, was not like anything he’s used to.
After flying into Tulsa, the imposing left-hander and his family still had two hours of driving to get to campus, but the 80 mph speed limit offered by the Cherokee Turnpike was a welcome change of pace.
“Long stretches like this back home are bumper to bumper,” Lorenzini joked during an interview with Best of Arkansas Sports early in that trek on June 27.
Back home is Rocklin, Calif., a suburb of Sacramento and part of a metropolitan area with five times as many people as Northwest Arkansas.