Illinois Baseball Report

  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! »

Illinois rallied today but it was too little, too late.  Purdue took the last game of the regular season from Illinois 12-8.  The Illini managed to rally for 7 runs in the last four innings but the Purdue lead was already too great.  The Boilermakers had scored seven runs before Illinois drew first blood in [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Ben Reeser honored on Senior Day Illinois took a loss today against Ohio State in their last home game of 2009 by the score of 12-7.  The Illini battled back but couldn’t overcome a pair of five-run innings by the Buckeyes.  Brandon Wikoff sliding home to score in the second inning It was Senior Day [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 10th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

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! »

Illinois and starting pitcher Bryan Roberts took care of business today as they shut out Northwestern Wildcats 9-0 at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston.  With help from Michigan who defeated Ohio State, they are now in sole possession of first place in the Big Ten conference. Roberts was lights out as he struck out seven [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 3rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois captured the first game of the series against Northwestern and did with runs to spare, winning 10-2.  Willie Argo, who has been on a tear lately, once again hit a homerun for the good guys.  For the game, Argo was 2 for 4 with three rbis.  Phil Haig pitched one heckuva game.  In a [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 1st, 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 »

The big stories of tonight’s game between Illinois and Southern Illinois University: Well first of all, Illinois won 5-1.  Yes, the Illini have a three game winning streak against Big Ten teams (courtesy of Penn State) but they also haven’t beaten a non-conference in three games either.   So I’m glad Illinois could get this monkey [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

I remember two years ago I was talking to a father of one of the players at the 2007 Big Ten Tournament.  He shared with me that he wouldn’t be surprised if then freshman Brandon Wikoff would set the hits record for Illinois provided he played all four years.   Fast forward two years to [...]

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