Illinois Baseball Report

On Saturday, Illinois and Ohio State completed their Friday contest that was suspended by rain.  Illinois won easily with both teams scoring two additional runs.  Final Score 9-4 Illinois. The win goes to Kevin Manson which makes him 7-1 on the season.  Mike Sterk got his third save of the year. Once things got on [...]

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Illinois got their revenge for yesterday’s sweep and evened the weekend series up by blasting the Penn State Nittany Lions 17-6.  Casey McMurray continued to put up the big numbers as he went 4 for 4 with 3 runs.  Kyle Hudson (right) was 3 for 4 with 3 runs and 2 rbis. For the weekend, [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 27th, 2008 | Leave a 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 seems Yogi was right.  It ain’t over till it’s over.  The Illini proved that today against the Hoosiers when they pulled out a ninth inning win. Illinois had the lead early in Bloomington.  They scored four runs in the first three innings and led 4-1 by the third inning.  Indiana stepped up their attack [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 5th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

This will teach me to leave a game early… I got to the park early today so I could see the boys practice. The game had a auspicious beginning as starter Nick Chmielewski walked the bases loaded in the first.  To his credit, he got out of that jam. Unfortunately for reasons beyond my control, [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 2nd, 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! »

Yes, there was baseball in Lansing today.  There weather cooperated and the University of Illinois have swept Michigan State in today’s doubleheader.  Because nothing beats being there, here’s the report from Tom Tompkins who is attending the games this weekend.  Once again, thanks to Tom T. for his “eyewitness” reports. Under a cloudless blue sky [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 29th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Four hits by first baseman Ryan Hastings helped Illinois put down the Kansas Jayhawks 11-9 on Wednesday.  Aside from going 4 for 4, Hastings clubbed a homer and a double with 3 runs and 2 rbis.  Kyle Hudson, Joe Bonadonna and Brandon Wikoff all contributed 2 hits apiece. It was was a close victory though.  [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 21st, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois 1 Lamar 0 CSTV’s Gametracker pitching line says it all It was another pitcher’s duel this morning at the Al Ogletree Tournament but this time Illinois came up on top. Aaron Martin and Ben Reeser were lights out against the Lamar University Cardinals just as were all summer as teammates in the Coastal Plain [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 24th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Ben Reeser coming off a lights-out summer, started for the Orange team. I stopped by the first game of University of Illinois’ Orange and Blue series.  Stop by The Baseball Zealot photo gallery and see the photos I took. 2B Ryan Hastings takes third on a fly ball. If you want to see the Illini in action [...]

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