Illinois Baseball Report

The Hoosiers were on a roll and no one was going to stop them, not even the Gophers, who were pretty hot themselves.  They won the Big Ten Tournament championship by defeating the red hot Minnesota Golden Gophers 13-2. This is Indiana’s first Tourney title in in 13 years.  This Hoosier team did it with [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 24th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

  Dominic Altobelli- 3B All-Big Ten First team Brandon Wikoff- SS All-Big Ten First Team Pete Cappetta- OF All-Big Ten Second Team Aaron Johnson- C All-Big Ten Second Team Willie Argo- OF All-Big Ten Third Team All-Big Ten Freshman Team Will Strack- SP All-Big Ten Third Team All-Big Ten Freshman Team The Big Ten annual [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 19th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

With all the excitement surrounding the Ohio State series, I didn’t want to forget about this.  Yeah, yeah, another award for Brandon Wikoff. What else is new?  Seems like he’s being honored like this every other day.  I bet it’s gets old, getting all this attention.  Just kidding, Brandon.  This time, Wikoff was named to [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 7th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Brandon Wikoff (left) becomes the next in a long line of Illini who can claim the honor of being named the Big Ten Player of the Week.  Wikoff was deemed the honor for his efforts against Northwestern at Evanston this past weekend.  For the weekend, he hit .692 including a 4 hit game on Sunday.  [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 4th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Big news for Illini’s shortstop!  Brandon Wikoff has been named to the watch list for the Brooks Wallace Award.  The Wallace Award is annually given to the nation’s best college shortstop.  Wikoff is the only Big Ten player to be named to the list and the winner will be awarded the  trophy on July 2.  [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment »

After a monster weekend against Penn State, Illini Willie Argo garners the Big Ten Player of the Week award.  The Davenport, Iowa native took the award based on his 8 for 12 performance while Illinois swept the Nittany Lions.  Argo drove home 8 runs and scored six with the help of three homeruns, a double [...]

Filed under: Awards on April 27th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

I didn’t want to jinx it but I had a sneaky suspicion that Illinois firstbaseman Matt Dittman’s efforts against Michigan might have been good enough to garner him Big Ten Player of the Week.  They were.  Dittman had started in only one Big Ten game before this weekend and boy, he really made the most [...]

Filed under: Awards on April 13th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Congrats to Will Strack.  With his complete game shutout in the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader, Strack received the Big Ten Pitcher of the Week award. Strack allowed just four hits and a walk in Illinois’ win which completed their weekend sweep of the Michigan Spartans.  He is the second Illinois freshman to win an [...]

Filed under: Awards on March 30th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Illini fans, get ready… this weekend is the first home series of 2009! It might be a bit chilly for Friday’s game.  Forecasts show sunny and a high of 49 degrees but all things considered, we’ve endured worst.  The early 3:05pm game time will help with that (good thing because it will be a low [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on March 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Lots to talk about in the wake of Illinois’ series victory over (then) #1 LSU Tigers last weekend.  The Illini won Friday’s game and Sunday’s game both on the efforts of good starting pitching by Phil Haig and Ben Reeser respectively. I say "then #1" because well, it’s no surprise that LSU dropped in the [...]

Filed under: Awards on March 9th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »