Hoosiers come into town for final home series

Reliever Chris Pack has a 5-1 record on the season This is it.  If any of you were waiting for the right time to attend an Illinois game, your days are running out.  This weekend’s three game series (which starts on Thursday due to the Big Ten Tournament next week) against the Indiana Hoosiers will [...]

Purdue on the schedule for the Illini this weekend

Justin Parr is hitting .346 and an even tastier .486 against Big Ten teams This coming weekend, the Illini will be making their last road trip of the year… not including the Big Ten Tournament, of course.  They will be traveling to West Lafayette, Indiana to play the offense-laden Purdue Boilermakers. It’s certainly a key [...]

Come for the Barbeque. Stick around for an Illini victory.

In case you haven’t heard, this Friday is the 3rd annual Bleacher Bum Barbeque.  In addition to a great Illinois-Ohio State baseball matchup, there will be free food, inflatable games for the kids,  fireworks and presumably a lot of people.  If you want to get in on the free grub, come by Illinois Field around [...]

Illinois and Northwestern battle in I-57 series this weekend

Starter John Anderson is on a roll.  He’ll go for another win this weekend. This weekend, the Illini will be traveling north this weekend to take on the Northwestern Wildcats. Note that Friday’s game will be an early game at 3pm.  Fire up Gametracker if you want to follow the game.   Northwestern Wildcats April [...]

Illini welcome Michigan State this weekend

This weekend brings the Michigan State Spartans to Champaign, Illinois.  Looking at the weather forecast, Saturday may actually be a decent day for baseball… cloudy, maybe but warm and not wet.  Friday and Sunday may be a different story, however.  I’m still holding hope. I really do hope that we can get Friday’s game in.  [...]

Midweek Report: Two re-matches on the schedule

Illinois baseball had a pretty rough Sunday against Michigan. In game 1, they were shut out for the third time this year, 3-0.  Pete Cappetta did manage to bang out two hits in the losing cause.  John Anderson does deserve some credit for his eight inning complete game where he only gave up seven hits [...]

Illini set to battle the Wolverines of Michigan

Corey Kimes is the scheduled Sunday starter this weekend Illinois travels to Ann Arbor this weekend to play Michigan.  One note before I go on… the Friday game has been moved up to 3:05pm because of weather. Illinois’ offense will need to find their bats as they are currently haven’t scored a run in 16 [...]

Midweek Report: SIU comes to town Wednesday

Win or lose, Brandon Hohl continues to clobber the ball Tonight, Illinois took their game on the road just a bit south of here and took on Eastern Illinois University.  The pitching fared ok but the offense just couldn’t get going as EIU won 4-1. Illinois’ one run came on a solo shot by (can [...]

Illinois hosts Iowa for Big Ten home opener

Josh Parr and Co will attempt to win their first Big Ten series this weekend This weekend, the Illini will be hosting their first Big Ten series.  They’ll be hosting the 11-15 Iowa Hawkeyes.  Weather permitting, that is.  I doubt the Illinois weather will prevent any action on Friday but the outlook on Saturday looks [...]

Illini will play Bradley and Benedictine this week

Illinois is coming off a disappointing series loss against Penn State and have a bit of work to do.  Illinois lost 13-4 on Sunday due mostly to a 8-run fourth inning by the Lions which the Illini could never recover. Fortunately, there are two midweek games on the schedule for this week.  One away and [...]