Illinois Baseball Report

Despite scoring five runs in the last two innings, the Illini lost to the St Louis Billikens in St Louis tonight.  This in spite of efforts of Joe Bonadonna, Casey McMurray, Dom Altobelli and Josh Parr who had two hit each in the 11-10 heartbreaker. This was third mid-week, non-conference game in a row that [...]

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Matt Dittman practices his “mean” face before the game with Eastern. It’s late so I’m going to keep this short.  The Illini are heading to Marion, IL to play Coach Hartleb’s alma mater, Southern Illinois University.  Hartleb will play down his time at SIU but word has it he was pretty good as a catcher [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 14th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Boy, that was a close one! Josh Parr drove in the winning run in the 10th inning Down 4-1, Illinois pulled ahead in the fifth by a run only to lose the lead in the next inning.  The Illini quickly tied it up and that’s where it stood till the tenth inning when a pair [...]

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The Illini got 16 hits today against Central Connecticut State but failed to capitalize as they lost to the Blue Devils 6-4 in Winter Haven, Florida. Offensively, Illinois had plenty of chances but didn’t take advantage, leaving 15 runners on base.  Coach Hartleb alluded to that after the game: “I was disappointed today with our [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 22nd, 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. [...]

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Last weekend it was Florida… this coming weekend, our boys are going to Texas for the Al Ogletree Classic.  More specifically, they’ll be visiting Edinburg Stadium.  That’s the home of the University of Texas Pan American Broncs who are currently 0-4 this season.  Don’t make fun though.  UTPA was the home field of Al Ogletree [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on February 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I wandered onto the Illinois Field premises during practice on Wednesday and snapped a few shots.  It had rained earlier in the day but conditions were ok for a few hours of field time.  Say what you want about Illinois Field’s Field Turf, it does handle the rain pretty well. Today it was infield fielding [...]

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The Big Ten Network began broadcasting the games by the third round.  This camera operator didn’t care for me taking her picture even though she was poking her camera into Illinois’ dugout a good part of the game. This is a mid-game interview of Coach Hartleb of Illinois.  This goes for MLB too but my [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 24th, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Next Game: Games #43-46 Sat May 3 3:05pm Sun May 4 1:05 (DH) Mon May 5 6:05pm Record: 25-17 Big Ten 11-9 vs Northwestern at Illinois Field, Champaign, IL Before I forget to mention it, the series with Northwestern has been moved back a day. due to weather concerns  So the first game is on [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on May 1st, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Brandon Wikoff laying down a bunt College baseball is a strange beast.  After a weekend against a Big Ten rival where we score 49 runs and give up 43 runs, they take on Southern Illinois and pitch their hearts out.  After a rough 3 innings giving up two runs, Illinois relievers were stingy and allowed [...]

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