Illinois Baseball Report

On April Fool’s Day, #26 Illinois (yes, we dropped a spot in the polls) the Illini will take on the Cougars of University of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. The Cougars are a probationary member of the Ohio Valley Conference hoping for full NCAA Division I status in by 2012-2013.    Game #22 Record: 16-5 (3-0 Big Ten) [...]

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Congrats to Will Strack.  With his complete game shutout in the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader, Strack received the Big Ten Pitcher of the Week award. Strack allowed just four hits and a walk in Illinois’ win which completed their weekend sweep of the Michigan Spartans.  He is the second Illinois freshman to win an [...]

Filed under: Awards on March 30th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Note: The ISU-Illinois game on Tuesday has been postponed due to weather  No make-up date has been scheduled yet. After the all-important Big Ten opener last weekend which the Illini swept Michigan State, they are going on the road for one night and probably hoping for better weather.  They’ll be playing Illinois State up in [...]

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Snowy day We got started early today at 11am because of the re-scheduled game from yesterday’s rained out affair.  So today instead of rain, we got snow.  Granted it wasn’t a blizzard or anything but dang, it was cold.  Towards the end of Game One, the snow stopped.  The sun even popped out for a [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps, Uncategorized on March 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Big Ten Network tried their best to delay today’s game as much as possible but it just wasn’t going to happen.  Around 4:30, during a break between “Big Ten Short Stories” (did you know a Penn State hockey goalie became Miss Virginia??), the broadcasters told us that they were going to try to get [...]

Filed under: Announcements on March 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

It was cold and breezy at Illinois Field last night but that didn’t stop the hot bats of the Illini as they defeated Michigan State in their Big Ten opener by the score of 10-3. Illini starter Lee Zerrusen When Illinois scored a deuce in the first, MSU came back in the second with a [...]

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The weekend is almost here.  THE weekend is almost here!  The weekend when Big Ten teams face off against each other and it really counts.  For the #25 (yes, we’re still ranked) Illini, they face the Spartans of Michigan State.  If we can avoid the weather bug that we have avoided so well this year, [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on March 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Last year at about this time, I corresponded with an Michigan State baseball fan named Tom Tompkins.  He was nice enough to write a bit about the 2008 Illinois-MSU series that was happening in East Lansing. Well, the 2009 MSU-Illinois series is almost upon us and Tom dropped me an email.  He tells me that [...]

Filed under: Feature on March 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois made the most of their last game of their spring break trip against Central Connecticut State.  Particularly Bryan Roberts who in his second start of the season, pitched seven innings of shutout ball allowing five hits. Box Score Relievers Wes Braun, Aaron Martin and Nick Chmielewski combined for two perfect innings and Illinois won [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Illini got 16 hits today against Central Connecticut State but failed to capitalize as they lost to the Blue Devils 6-4 in Winter Haven, Florida. Offensively, Illinois had plenty of chances but didn’t take advantage, leaving 15 runners on base.  Coach Hartleb alluded to that after the game: “I was disappointed today with our [...]

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