Illinois Baseball Report

Some quick news links from around the Big Ten baseball world -Brian from Big Ten Hardball wraps up the BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge and chose his All-Weekend Team.  Brandon Wikoff and Dom Altobelli made first team.  Aaron Johnson made honorable mention. -Yes, the Big Ten did reign supreme in the Challenge.  They won 15 of [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on February 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

This bit of news came out before the holidays but is worth passing on.  The 2009 Big Ten Tournament will be held at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio.  Huntington Park is the home of the Yankees’ Triple-A team, the Columbus Clippers. The set dates for the tournament are May 20-23.  This is the first time [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on January 5th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Next February, the Illini will compete in a tournament between the Big Ten and BIG EAST conferences.  The inaugural BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge will take place February 20-22, 2009 and will be hosted by the St Petersburg/Clearwater Sports Commission.  All teams of the Big Ten and BIG EAST will take part. The tournament will take [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on September 13th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

This didn’t get past my radar… Penn State’s closer Drew O’Neil got drafted by the White Sox Thursday.  Pretty dang high, too at 120th overall (four picks after Illinois’ Hudson) in the fourth round.  Nittany White-Out is pretty excited about it. Speaking of Penn State ballplayers, I’m surprised that catcher Joe Blackburn didn’t get selected.  [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on June 7th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Tournament is almost a week away. With one more regular season conference weekend left before the Big Ten Tournament, it’s no surprise that there are a lot of scenarios that could occur. Let’s start with the two main rules regarding the Tournament qualification: 1. To qualify for the tournament, teams must finish [...]

Filed under: 2007 Big Ten Tournament, Big Ten on May 14th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

RF Trevor Huisinga went 2 for 3 with 2 rbis in a losing cause The Illini season is over. Purdue eliminated them from the Big Ten tournment, defeating them 10-5.  Never mind the details (maybe later) except that the Illini had a 5-4 lead in the sixth but couldn’t hold it. It will be a [...]

Filed under: Big Ten, Game Recaps on May 25th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

My hope that Illinois, riding a two-game winning streak, a streak that got them into the Big Ten tournament, would give them the momentum they needed to sweep through the tourney.  Gopher starting pitcher Cole DeVries had something to say about that. Gopher hurler Cole DeVries You see, Minnesota was riding a streak of their own.  [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on May 25th, 2006 | 2 Comments »

With the pressure on, the Illini delivered.  Down to the last game, needing to win against Michigan State if they wanted to continue on to the Big Ten Tournament, it seemed like everything went right. Brian Blomquist found his groove The same could be said for starting pitcher Brian Blomquist.  Bloomer, who was unstoppable at [...]

Filed under: Big Ten, Game Recaps on May 21st, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »

It seems nothing can stop Michigan this weekend.  So far, they have gone 3-0 against Iowa (including two 1-0 shutouts today!) and have clinched their 33rd Big Ten title.  In doing this, they have home-field advantage and a first-round bye. Northwestern, with one game left tomorrow, have at least clinched second place and the second first-round [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on May 20th, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »

It’s a big weekend for Big Ten baseball.  I won’t re-discuss the importance why since I did so a couple posts ago.  Needless to say, the Illini and Northwestern need to win big for their own separate reasons. Well, both teams had 3:00 games today, the Wildcats playing Penn State (who were one game back [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on May 19th, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »