Illinois Baseball Report

Reliever Ronnie Muck:  2.16 ERA in 7 appearances This weekend, the University of Illinois baseball team become the first team to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Big Ten conference play.  The Huskers play host in Lincoln.  The starting pitchers have been announced.  Kevin Johnson, John Kravetz will pitch Friday and Saturday, respectively (no surprise).  [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on March 22nd, 2012 | 2 Comments »

A couple of videos to link to this week.  The first two come to us from Illini Productions’ YouTube Channel.  Here’s Brandon Hohl’s postgame interview after Sunday’s game when he hit two homeruns and drove in six runs against SIU.    That same day, Josh Ferry won his first college game.  Here he is giving [...]

Filed under: Media on March 20th, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Wow!  Lots of big stuff happened yesterday in Illinois baseball.  They did manage to get shutout by one the most struggling teams they’ve faced this year in Northern Illinois 3-0.  But on the other hand, they came back and walloped SIU 13-5.    Some of the big stories of the day Illinois gets shutout by [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 19th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

Finally, we get to see some Illinois baseball on Illinois soil… against other Illinois opponents.  This weekend sees the University of Illinois baseball team in a four game set.  They’ll play two games each against the tough Southern Illinois Salukis and the slumping Northern Illinois Huskies. For the first time, Illinois comes into a weekend [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on March 15th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

On Sunday, the Illini didn’t waste time against the West Virginia Mountaineers.  In their last game at the Nike College Showcase in Eugene, Oregon, the bats were swinging and the runs were scoring.  The game almost seemed in the bag by the bottom of the first when Illinois scored seven runs.  If case there was [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 12th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

Five hits for Willie Argo on Saturday A split wasn’t in the cards against Gonzaga but the Illini found their bats and arms and won versus the Lamar Cardinals later in the afternoon at the YMBL Cardinal Classic in Beaumont, Texas today.  Against Gonzaga, it was more of the same for the first six innings [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 25th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

I’m sure we Illini baseball fans are not given in to schadenfreude.  If we were, however, we would pleased to know that because of Illinois’ 9-4 defeat of St John’s on Sunday, the Red Storm have been knocked out of the national rankings.  But I’m sure we don’t have that kind of nasty attitude. The [...]

Filed under: Analysis on February 22nd, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

The first win of the season is always nice but when it comes against a nationally ranked team, it makes it so much better.  Such was the case on Sunday when the Illini defeated #27 St John’s at the Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge in St Petersburg, Florida.  Illinois came back from a 3-1 deficit to [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 21st, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

Fightingillini.com posted the second in their series of 2012 previews yesterday.  This time around, they’re looking at the position players.  Don’t miss the accompanying interview video of Coach Snider.   Who among the position players are no longer on the team?  Well in short, Adam Davis, Pete Cappetta, Casey McMurray, Matt Dittman, Josh Parr.  Those are [...]

Filed under: Analysis on February 11th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

Brandon Hohl had a big game on Friday night for his Wisconsin Rapids Rafters.  He hit two homers with three rbis. The Rafters won 11-2 keyed by Hohl’s performance.  Here is the box score. Share Tags: brandon hohl, Summer League Related posts Fundamentals and strategy win the game against Minnesota 7-5 (0) Illinois lose it [...]

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