Illinois Baseball Report

The weekend notes for the Al Ogletree Tournament have just been posted on the fightingillini.com website. Phil Haig is indeed the starter Friday night and Aaron Martin is on the hill Saturday.   and Ben Reeser will have to go to bed early Saturday night.  He’ll have a 9 am start on Sunday. Good luck, guys! [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on February 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Woo-hoo!  This is one I would have really liked to seen in person.  The Illinois defeated Iowa in the first game of the BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge in Clearwater, Florida. Down 2-1 in the sixth, the Illini came back to score five runs thanks in part to three Iowa fielding miscues.  Iowa never really recovered [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 21st, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Saturday, the Illini went 1-2. Not every day that’s going to happen. My plan was to go the ballpark to see the Illini finish up Friday’s game with the Nittany Lions and play their regularly scheduled doubleheader and was pleasantly surprised to see my buddy Brando had shown up to root on the Illini. I [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Today’s Illini loss to Michigan wasn’t as overwhelming as the two on Saturday but the 7-4 game still hurt as it meant a Wolverine sweep for the weekend.  Illinois went into the weekend in second place and came out of it in fourth. Michigan cruised to a 7-0 start by the fourth inning scoring all [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 13th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It wasn’t even close.  The Michigan Wolverines crushed the Illini by similar scores of 14-4 and 14-6. I didn’t make it out to the games.  Between the cold, wet weather and watching the kids, it just wasn’t in the making.  I had Gametracker going on the computer and the Cubs on WGN-TV (ugh, a 7-1 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Despite giving up the first three runs to Indiana in the first inning, Illinois came back with a vengeance to defeat the Indiana Hoosiers 18-8.  The Monday win seals a 3-1 series victory against the Hoosiers for the weekend. Wow, what a day Ryan Hastings had.  He was 5 for 6 (his first career five-hit [...]

Filed under: Game Previews, Game Recaps on April 7th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Tom Tompkins has a short report from Lansing. Your guys broke our hearts in the 1st game with those 4 runs in the final inning. It was fairly cold and windy, and we had a lengthy rain delay between games. We got great pitching from two freshman and a winning hit by Eric Roof in [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 30th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Ryan Hastings slides in to score (Photo credit: Dylan Nelshoppen) Once again, the Illini offense was on its game.  For the second time in three days (and third time this season), they scored fifteen runs.  Final score Illinois 15 Indiana State 4 By the time I got there in the fifth inning, the Illini were [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 26th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

I took a five day hiatus from the blog and the sports world in general as the family and I went to Chicago for an extended weekend.  The only remotely sports related things I encountered was breezing by the Friendly Confines countless times on the Red Line and seeing a couple Chicago Blackhawks who were [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 19th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

I really thought the University of Illinois had a good chance against our sister campus, the University of Illinois-Chicago.  UIC had only won one game going into this game and it wasn’t like we were playing some baseball powerhouse from the south.  I guess this proves that we take all opponents seriously. The Illini did [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 3rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »