Illinois Baseball Report

Brandon Wikoff laying down a bunt College baseball is a strange beast.  After a weekend against a Big Ten rival where we score 49 runs and give up 43 runs, they take on Southern Illinois and pitch their hearts out.  After a rough 3 innings giving up two runs, Illinois relievers were stingy and allowed [...]

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Thoughts on the Penn St series etc: Boy, that was a rough and wild ride.  A total of 92 runs were scored by both teams for the four games.  A total of 49 were scored by the Illini.  The funny thing is that they did with only two homeruns (Hastings and Cappetta). But the important [...]

Filed under: Analysis on April 28th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois got their revenge for yesterday’s sweep and evened the weekend series up by blasting the Penn State Nittany Lions 17-6.  Casey McMurray continued to put up the big numbers as he went 4 for 4 with 3 runs.  Kyle Hudson (right) was 3 for 4 with 3 runs and 2 rbis. For the weekend, [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 27th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Saturday, the Illini went 1-2. Not every day that’s going to happen. My plan was to go the ballpark to see the Illini finish up Friday’s game with the Nittany Lions and play their regularly scheduled doubleheader and was pleasantly surprised to see my buddy Brando had shown up to root on the Illini. I [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

When then wind is blowing out like this you’re going to expect a high scoring game.  In this case, it might contribute to bad weather.  In this case, rain which suspended that game in the eighth inning.  Friday’s game will be be picked up at 2pm Saturday to be followed by the regularly scheduled doubleheader.  [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Next Game: Games #38-41 Fri April 25 6:05pm Sat April 26 3:05pm (DH) Sun April 27 12:05 Record: 23-14 Big Ten 9-7 vs Penn State at Illinois Field, Champaign, IL Yes, I say every Big Ten series is important but this one kind of is.  PSU is a game back in the standings and soooo [...]

Filed under: Awards, Game Previews on April 24th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Joe Bonadonna and Brandon Wikoff combined to go 9 for 10 in University of Illinois’ 10-2 win over Western Illinois University.  Bonadonna scored 4 times in the leadoff role.  Wikoff drove in four and scored twice. Starter Nick Chmielewski pitched a solid game allowing two runs in five frames.  The Illinois bullpen was stellar with [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 23rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois didn’t look back after Aaron Johnson’s three-run HR in the 2nd University of Illinois scored early and often against Illinois State in their 10-4 win Tuesday night.  Much of their offense came from catcher Aaron Johnson who was 3 for 4 with 4 rbis and 3 runs. Johnson hit a three-run homerun in the [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 22nd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Next Game: Game #36 Tues April 22 6:05pm Record: 21-14 Big Ten 9-7 vs Illinois State at Illinois Field, Champaign, IL Illinois is coming off a much needed series win against Minnesota and will be facing the Cardinals of Illinois State.  The Cardinals whose home is “just down the road a bit” in Normal, are [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 21st, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Today in Minneapolis, Illinois split their doubleheader with the Golden Gophers of Minnesota giving them a 3-1 weekend win after winning both games yesterday. Recap: The first game was a squeaker with Minnesota winning 4-3.  Illinois took the lead 3-2 in the fifth with two runs.  Dom Altobelli’s double down the left field line was [...]

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