Illinois Baseball Report

On Sunday, Ohio State defeated Minnesota 14-6 to win the Big Ten Tournament.
Tournaments are indeed a different breed. Of the six Big 10 teams represented, #5 Ohio State and #6 Minnesota were the two lowest seeded teams in the tourney.
Also, Illini Shawn Roof was selected to the All-Big Ten Tournament Team. Roof was [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 30th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

If you were a Minnesota Gopher fan, you have to be pretty happy right today. In the bottom of the 9th, eighth place hitter and secondbaseman Joe Maciej hit a walk-off two-run homerun to beat Ohio State 4-3.
That sets the stage for the tournament championship game tomorrow. It will be a rematch between [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 28th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

Purdue eliminated Illinois from the Big Ten Tournament today defeating them in a hard fought extra inning contest 4-3.

Starter Jimmy Conroy kept the Illini in it for most of the game.
One can hardly fault starting pitcher Jimmy Conroy who pitched a heck of a game. He pitched a 10 inning complete game allowing only [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on May 27th, 2005 | 3 Comments »

Didn’t make it to the Illini game yesterday. Elected instead to take my 5-year daughter out on a date. It was a close call but she’s a real sweet talker sometime.
Got back in time to listen to most of it on the radio… if only I could stay awake. It wasn’t that [...]

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The first two games were played today at Illinois Field.
Ohio State 7 Michigan 3
Minnesota 14 Iowa 7
But now I’m confused.
Look at the updated bracket and see if this makes sense to you. According to the playoff bracket, shouldn’t Illinois be playing Ohio State?
Anyway, Illinois is scheduled to play Minnesota Thursday night at 7:05pm [...]

Filed under: Big Ten, Game Recaps on May 25th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

Well, classes have been over for a couple weeks but if you’re a college baseball fan, things are still abuzz this week here in Champaign-Urbana. Tomorrow, the Big Ten Baseball Tournament begins!

Big Ten Coach of the Year Itch Jones
First things first though. Illinois Coach Itch Jones was named Big Ten Coach of Year. [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on May 24th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

I never thought I’d say this but:

Thank you, Indiana!

Here’s the scenario:
Going into the last game of the season, Illinois still had a magic number of one. Either they had to win or Purdue had to lose in order for them to win the Big Ten title.
Well, I went to the game against [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 23rd, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

Today’s University of Illinois baseball game is being billed as “Dog Day Afternoon”. It says in part:

Bring your dog to the park and receive free admission for yourself and your four-legged friend
Yes, and don’t forget to bring your pooper scoopers. And I’m sure your dogs will behave just fine with a hundred other [...]

Filed under: Community stuff on May 21st, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

I attended the Illini game last night and it wasn’t pretty. They lost their fifth in a row and their magic number remains at two. With three games left against Iowa this weekend, they need to win the next two to clinch the Big Ten title.
Brian Blomquist took the loss last [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 21st, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

In what hopefully will not be a trend, the Illini lost their fourth game in a row against #20 Missouri. Despite 3 Missori errors, they lost 6-2. It was a game of lost opportunities as they stranded 6 runners in scoring position.
Illinois remains first in the Big Ten but their lead [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 18th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »