Josh Ferry Will Krug One week after Brandon Hohl and Justin Parr received similar honors, we hear that two more Illini were named to their respective summer league’s All-Star team. This time it was Will Krug and Josh Ferry. Both are current sophomores and both were named to the Chicago Suburban Baseball League’s All-College team. [...]
Filed under: Awards, Summer League on October 20th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
Fightingillini.com has just posted a solid summary of this year’s summer league action by the Illini. Big congrats go out to Will Krug who was chosen to the National Amateur Baseball Federation College World Series All-Tournament team after his performance with the Crystal Lake Cardinals. For the summer, he hit .375 while scoring 45 runs [...]
Filed under: Summer League on August 16th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
Three Illini players contributed to the Rochester Honkers’ win in their last game of the Northwoods League season last night. Kevin Johnson (left, 3-3) pitched a five inning shutout for the win while Reid Roper went 3 for 4 with a grand slam. To top it off, Justin Parr went 1 for 3 to end [...]
Filed under: Summer League on August 13th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
Justin Parr is really putting it together for the Rochester Honkers in the Northwoods League this summer. Last night, he extended his hitting streak to 21 games and did it in style. He went 4 for 5 in the Honkers’ 11-3 defeat of Alexandria and hit a homerun with four rbis. That now raises Parr’s [...]
Filed under: Summer League on August 10th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Post-Bulletin has a good article on the Parr twins, Justin and Jordan who are both playing for the Rochester Honkers in the Northwoods League. It sounds like Honkers Manager Zach Etheridge is getting used to seeing double: “I’m finally to the point where I can tell them apart…”I didn’t know a thing about them, [...]
Filed under: Summer League on July 17th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
Congrats to Illini secondbaseman Reid Roper who was named Northwoods League Player of the Night tonight. Roper who is playing for the Rochester Honkers drove in four runs with a three-run double and a rbi double. Justin Parr also got into the action. Playing center field and left field, Parr went 2 for 4 with [...]
Filed under: Summer League on June 19th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
Happy Birthday to Illini infielder Michael Hurwitz! He has a lot to celebrate today as last night he hit two homeruns and drove in five runs for the Springfield Sliders. Unfortunately, it was in a losing cause as the Sliders lost 15-8 to Hannibal. In the same game, Illini David Kerian did his part as [...]
Filed under: Summer League on June 3rd, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
Former Illini shortstop Josh Parr had a fantastic game last night in Class A ball. Parr (left) showed his little brothers, Justin and Jordan how it’s done in the minors when he rapped out four hits for the South Bend Silver Hawks in their 11-6 victory over the Drayton Dragons. Parr’s hitting just below the [...]
Filed under: Former Illini in the pros, Summer League on June 2nd, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »
Fightingillini.com has a pretty comprehensive update on how our players are doing in their various 2011 summer leagues. Rather than summarize it all up, I’ll just link to it and you can read it for yourself. You can find it at the Fighting Illini baseball site. As for my summer, I’m spending a good portion [...]
Filed under: Summer League on July 21st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »
Brandon Hohl had a big game on Friday night for his Wisconsin Rapids Rafters. He hit two homers with three rbis. The Rafters won 11-2 keyed by Hohl’s performance. Here is the box score. Tags: brandon hohl, Summer League Related posts Illini sweep Penn State! (0) Kevin Duchene shuts down Nits, 9-0 (0) Justin Parr’s [...]
Filed under: Summer League on July 17th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »
