Illinois Baseball Report

Wednesday, the Big Ten recognized the academic achievements of 1,037 conference athletes from Spring 2010 by naming them to the Academic All-Conference teams of their respective sport.  Of the 79 baseball players honored, ten were from the University of Illinois.  Congrats to them all!   University of Illinois Spring Academic All-Conference Honorees John Anderson Jr. [...]

Filed under: Awards on June 2nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

On the eve of the Big Ten Tournament, conference awards were handed out.  Three Illinois players got some hardware to display on their mantles.  Shortstop Josh Parr (left) was named to the All-Big Ten third team.  Making the switch from second base to short, his conference.337 average and 21 runs scored were tops at his [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 25th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

It’s Monday, February 15, five days before the scheduled opening day at Illinois Field.  Right now in Urbana, it’s 23 degrees and there are light flurries falling on the already packed snow.  I’m not holding my breath for a game on Saturday but I’d love to see Mother Nature prove me wrong.   Meanwhile to get [...]

Filed under: Awards on February 15th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

More mantle hardware for the Illini hardballers.  Willie Argo was named to the Louisvile Slugger Freshman All-American team by Collegiate Baseball newspaper last Wednesday.  Argo hit .355 for Illinois in 2009 with 12 homeruns and 47 rbis and 10 stolen bases.  His homerun mark was tied for second all-time for Illini freshman.   Brandon Wikoff, who [...]

Filed under: Awards on June 9th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

  Dominic Altobelli- 3B All-Big Ten First team Brandon Wikoff- SS All-Big Ten First Team Pete Cappetta- OF All-Big Ten Second Team Aaron Johnson- C All-Big Ten Second Team Willie Argo- OF All-Big Ten Third Team All-Big Ten Freshman Team Will Strack- SP All-Big Ten Third Team All-Big Ten Freshman Team The Big Ten annual [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 19th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

With all the excitement surrounding the Ohio State series, I didn’t want to forget about this.  Yeah, yeah, another award for Brandon Wikoff. What else is new?  Seems like he’s being honored like this every other day.  I bet it’s gets old, getting all this attention.  Just kidding, Brandon.  This time, Wikoff was named to [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 7th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Brandon Wikoff (left) becomes the next in a long line of Illini who can claim the honor of being named the Big Ten Player of the Week.  Wikoff was deemed the honor for his efforts against Northwestern at Evanston this past weekend.  For the weekend, he hit .692 including a 4 hit game on Sunday.  [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 4th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Big news for Illini’s shortstop!  Brandon Wikoff has been named to the watch list for the Brooks Wallace Award.  The Wallace Award is annually given to the nation’s best college shortstop.  Wikoff is the only Big Ten player to be named to the list and the winner will be awarded the  trophy on July 2.  [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment »

After a monster weekend against Penn State, Illini Willie Argo garners the Big Ten Player of the Week award.  The Davenport, Iowa native took the award based on his 8 for 12 performance while Illinois swept the Nittany Lions.  Argo drove home 8 runs and scored six with the help of three homeruns, a double [...]

Filed under: Awards on April 27th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

I didn’t want to jinx it but I had a sneaky suspicion that Illinois firstbaseman Matt Dittman’s efforts against Michigan might have been good enough to garner him Big Ten Player of the Week.  They were.  Dittman had started in only one Big Ten game before this weekend and boy, he really made the most [...]

Filed under: Awards on April 13th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »