Illinois Baseball Report

Ben Reeser tossing over to first during the first game against Indiana on Saturday After a 1-2 weekend against the Hoosiers, the Illini will host the Bradley Braves at Illinois Field.    By Tuesday game time, it looks to a bit chilly but nothing like the MSU Sunday.  My source says 43 degrees and partly sunny. [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 6th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The difference was night and day for the Illini.  Compared to Friday night’s game against the Indiana, our pitchers pitched well, we had good defense and we kept Josh Phegley at bay (1 for 9, 1 rbi, 1 run). Ben Reeser was one strike from a shutout Unfortunately, we only managed to win one game [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 4th, 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! »

Illinois rebounded today from there defeat against Army yesterday by solidly beating University of Hartford today 7-3 down in Florida.  In the first, they took a quick 3-0 lead with the help of a Dom Altobelli two-run double. From there, they never looked back.  In the third, they added two more (once again, with help [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 21st, 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! »

After soundly defeating LSU 6-2 today, one has to wonder if Saturday’s 22-10 drubbing by the Tigers was just really bad dream. Much kudos goes to starter Ben Reeser who was one out away from a 3-hit shutout.  It was at that point, however, when the Tigers pumped some life back into the game.  An [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on March 8th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Illini secondbaseman Josh Parr who is barely getting his feet wet in college ball, has already been honored by the conference by being named Big Ten Co-Player of the Week. Considering his performance at the Al Ogletree Tournament over the weekend, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. Parr was 7 for 10 with [...]

Filed under: Awards on March 2nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Hate to sound like a broken record but good starting pitching gave Illinois a victory down in Texas.  This time it was Ben Reeser who gave up just one earned run and six hits in 7 2/3 innings against Texas Arlington in the last game of the Al Ogletree tournament.  Illinois defeated the Mavericks 3-2. [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 1st, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

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! »