Illinois Baseball Report

Adam Davis, who contributed a solo homerun Saturday, is ready for the tournament. The shot that launched a Big Ten Championship   The photo of Matt Dittman directly above pretty much says it all.  When we look back at this past weekend, there’s no doubt it will remain one of the most remembered moments of [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 22nd, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Illinois baseball players don’t get much of a break after the college season is over.  A few days after it’s over they travel to their college summer teams to hone their skills.  This year, twenty-one Illinois players will be playing in these summer leagues. For the most part our players are joining many of [...]

Filed under: Summer League on May 28th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Today, Illinois closed out the 2010 season with a 16-6 loss against Indiana.  It was a classic Hoosier victory with sixteen runs and seventeen hits (although only one homerun).  Senior Kevin Manson took the loss.  Indiana knocked Manson around pretty well.   They scored six runs (five earned) in three innings.  This evens Manson’s record at [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 22nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

I ran across some old photographs on my system that not been previously posted.  By old I mean 2005, before I started blogging about the team.  To put this into historical context, this was the year that Illinois won the Big Ten Championship.  It was also Coach Itch Jones’ last year. These photos actually have [...]

Filed under: history on February 10th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten announced today that Columbus, Ohio has locked up the Big Ten Baseball Tournament through 2012.  Specifically, the tourney will be played at Bill Davis Stadium in 2010.  It will then return to Huntington Park where the 2009 Tournament was played for the years 2011 and 2012. From the Big Ten Network: The [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on December 16th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Tournament banner including Illinois’ Brandon Wikoff As always, I had a great time at the Big Ten Tournament.  Win or lose, it’s a culmination of everything that the Illinois team has worked so hard for all season.  They’ve exceeded everyone else’s expectations this season and each one of them should be proud. [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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! »

Day and night.  That’s how I’d describe the difference between Minnesota on Thursday and Minnesota on Friday.  And unfortunately, Illinois had to play them Friday. The same Gopher team that couldn’t buy a hit against Indiana the day before and had its pitching pounded by their offense, came out a changed team Friday.  They first [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament, Game Recaps on May 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Michigan State made a good effort in the first game of Day 2 of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament but Purdue simply outscored. them. Purdue actually scored in every inning except the seventh defeating the the Spartans 12-9.  The Boilermakers had a 7-2 lead in the going into top of the fifth but Seth Williams [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 22nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Just a few photos that were taken today that I thought might be interesting: Huntington Park has been getting rave reviews from everyone I talk to.  It’s a very nice facility with some really cool features that we’re just used to at the college level… … a cool video-enhanced scoreboard… a sign measuring the speed [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 20th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »