Tennessee baseball’s woes continue Saturday night as the Vols dropped the second game of the series to Arkansas 6-3, marking their third straight series loss.

Just like Friday night, Tennessee opened the game with a promising leadoff-home run off the bat of Jared Dickey, but the hot start didn’t translate on defense as Chase Dollander gave up a two-run home run in the bottom of the first.

Dollander bounced back from the early home run, retiring 11-straight batters to keep the game close.

“It was good. Pitch count was a little bit of a factor,” head coach Tony Vitello said. “Then we played the situation which I think was the right thing to do, sometimes it goes your way, sometimes it doesn’t. I think tonight it did, last week it didn’t.”

The Vols and Razorbacks traded runs in the fifth and sixth innings, but Arkansas blew things up in the bottom of the seventh, loading the bases on Camden Sewell before scoring three runs on an error and a pair of RBI singles.

“Cam has been our guy in the past, he’s been our guy this year,” Vitello said. “He led us to victory on the road the last time we were on the rod. I don’t think they can brag about hammering him all over the park, but he certainly shot himself in the foot a little bit with the hit-by-pitch deal.”

Tennessee had no answer, scoring just one run in the final two innings.

Dollander’s decent performance was marred by fielding woes and a lack of offense.

“It was a clash of the titans in the first inning that didn’t go his way, but the rest of the time, he was fantastic,” Vitello said. “We could’ve made a play behind him, and we didn’t. So maybe things roll a little smoother for him after that, but I think early in the year, there were some ups and downs, but for the most part, he’s been pretty consistent, in my eyes, especially the last two weekends against two really good clubs.”

Kirby Connell, who came in for just half an inning, provided a strong outing and Bryce Jenkins closed things out well.

“(Jenkins) keeps growing,” Vitello said. “But I think we always thought he was fully capable of that prior to the season starting and then once the season started as long as he just kind of got his cleats in the ground.”

Tennessee will look to salvage the series with a win on Sunday at 3 p.m. ET, but salvaging the series has become an exhausting theme for the Vols during this stretch.