Illinois Baseball Report

  This weekend, the Illini will be headed to Penn State and their award winning stadium, Medlar Field at Lubrano Park   Game #36 Record: 23-11 (8-4 Big Ten) vs Penn State University Nittany Lions at Medlar Field, University Park, PA April 24 5:35pm CT   April 25 3:35pm CT   April 26 10:05am CT* [...]

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This week’s midgame game has the Illini travel to St Louis to play St Louis University Billikens on Wednesday evening.  And before anyone asks, this is what a Billiken is: In 1908, Florence Pretz, an art teacher and illustrator in Kansas City, Mo., received a patent for her version of an ancient Asian figure, a [...]

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Former Illini Kyle Hudson was named to Orioles blog Birds Watcher’s Top 20 Oriole Prospect list.  They say: With the wide receiver instincts, and his great speed, he tracts the ball down very good in the outfield, reminding me some what of Adam Jones. I watched a highlight video of this kid, I was amazed [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on April 20th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

This gentleman had the right idea during the break but a sweep was not in the cards for the Illini Illinois was oh so close to a sweep of Minnesota this weekend.  After a major comeback on Friday, they did the same for the first game on Saturday coming back from a 4-0 deficit to [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 19th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Brandon Wikoff trots around the bases after hitting his 3rd homerun of the season It was the best game of the season in my opinion.  For those that missed it, it’s too bad.  You missed a heckuva battle between the Illini and the Golden Gophers of Minnesota. A couple facts about this game: Both teams [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 17th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It’s looking like a nice night for a ballgame for tonight’s Friday night matchup with Minnesota.  By the 6pm gametime, it looks like partly sunny and around 70 degrees.  Nice!!  This is the night for a ballgame!  Saturday will be warm but cloudy.  Rain will be coming late but as long as it’s not an [...]

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I don’t think I need to tell any Illinois baseball fan how important this weekend’s series against Minnesota is.  With five teams within one game of the top prize and Minnesota being at the top, Illinois needs to pull out at least a series win here.    Big Ten Overall Team W L T Pct [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

From my standpoint, Illinois’ game against SIU at Rent One Park in Marion, Illinois looked like a game of big innings.  Unfortunately, the Salukis had one more of them than the Illini did.  Southern had 5-0 lead thanks to a four run fourth inning when Blake Fairchild came on and just couldn’t get anybody out.  [...]

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Matt Dittman practices his “mean” face before the game with Eastern. It’s late so I’m going to keep this short.  The Illini are heading to Marion, IL to play Coach Hartleb’s alma mater, Southern Illinois University.  Hartleb will play down his time at SIU but word has it he was pretty good as a catcher [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 14th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Cold.  Cold.  Cold.  The temperature was a stiff 40 degrees at gametime and it was about that when the game ended.  But it sure felt a whole lot cooler after standing in the wind for 2 1/2 hours. The Illini offense was pretty cool tonight managing only one run against Eastern Illinois tonight.  For a [...]

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