Justin Parr: Illinois’ Hit-man With last weekend’s 1-2 loss against Michigan State, things are getting a little more dire for Illinois Baseball. There are just two more series left in the regular season. While they are a respectable 9-9 in conference play, that’s still just good enough for 7th place. They’ll need to step it [...]
Filed under: Big Ten, Game Recaps on May 7th, 2013 | Leave a Comment! »
Jordan Parr: Second in HR and 4th in rbis in Big Ten Tuesday’s game indefinitely postponed… The game originally scheduled for this Tuesday night against the Redbirds of Illinois State has been postponed due the inclement weather. No date has been set but both teams are looking for a date to make up the game. [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on March 25th, 2013 | Leave a Comment! »
With their big sweep over Baylor, Illinois has first place to themselves in the Big Ten with a 10-4 record. via Bigten.org Conference Overall Team W L T Pct W L T Pct Illinois………… 0 0 0 .000 10 4 0 .714 Minnesota……….. 0 0 0 .000 10 5 0 .667 Ohio State………. 0 0 [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on March 11th, 2013 | Leave a Comment! »
Don’t look now but Illinois is in first place in the Big Ten Baseball. The current standings: Big Ten Overall Team Record Pct. Record Pct. Illinois 0-0 .000 7-4 .636 Indiana 0-0 .000 6-2 .750 Ohio State 0-0 .000 6-4 .600 Minnesota 0-0 .000 6-5 .545 Michigan 0-0 .000 5-5 .500 Northwestern 0-0 .000 4-2 [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on March 4th, 2013 | 1 Comment »
With Illinois’ good showing at the Keith LeClair Classic, I thought we might have seen a mention of one of our players in the Big Ten weekly awards (Nick Blackburn for Freshman of the Week, anyone?). Alas, Ohio State had three legit contenders and swept the awards: Player: Aaron Gretz, So., OSU Pitcher: Brad Goldberg, [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on February 25th, 2013 | Leave a Comment! »
I thought I’d take a quick look around the Big Ten after the opening weekend. No conference team went undefeated but two teams were swept. Michigan went 0-3 against California and surprisingly Nebraska lost all four of their games during their jaunt out West. To their credit, two of the games were against ranked Cal-State [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on February 18th, 2013 | Leave a Comment! »
Kevin Johnson: A pitcher to watch The Big Ten released its preseason poll of conference baseball coaches today. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that if the coaches are right, Illinois should make the Big Ten Baseball Tournament. The bad news is that it will be by the skin of their [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on February 12th, 2013 | Leave a Comment! »
When I grew up, it was the Big Ten proper. At the time, the last team to join the conference was Michigan State back in 1950. When Penn State joined the conference in 1990 it was a bit of a culture shock accompanied by a bit of snickering. Sure their football team was great but [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on November 23rd, 2012 | 4 Comments »
The Daily Illini has a solid article regarding some proposed changes to the Big Ten Baseball schedule. It includes some extensive quotes from key members of the B10 baseball arena including Brad Traviolia, the Big Ten Deputy Commissioner and a few of the head coaches. Minnesota head coach John Anderson is leading the charge on [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on May 29th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
The Big Ten Records Book has now been updated to reflect the 2011 season. For those of us interested in Big Ten Baseball here is their Baseball Records page. The Records Book includes records of every type of category. It begins with an overview of the 2011 season then includes standings for every year of [...]
Filed under: Big Ten on October 21st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »
