Illinois Baseball Report

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 [...]

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…which means this time, you’ll have to pay to get in.  But first… At this moment Illinois is leading Southern Illinois in the top of 8th, 5-2.  Daniel Webb has gone 3 for 4.  Brandon Wikoff and Ryan Hastings both have two hits.  Wikoff came into game hitting .397 so he may have cracked the [...]

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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! »

Ryan Hastings slides in to score (Photo credit: Dylan Nelshoppen) Once again, the Illini offense was on its game.  For the second time in three days (and third time this season), they scored fifteen runs.  Final score Illinois 15 Indiana State 4 By the time I got there in the fifth inning, the Illini were [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 26th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

I took a five day hiatus from the blog and the sports world in general as the family and I went to Chicago for an extended weekend.  The only remotely sports related things I encountered was breezing by the Friendly Confines countless times on the Red Line and seeing a couple Chicago Blackhawks who were [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 19th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

It’s hard to believe with a heavy snowstorm upon us here in Illinois, that I would be following a baseball game today.  With the help of CSTV’s Gametracker, that’s exactly what I did as I saw the University of Illinois win their season opener against Sam Houston State at the Al Ogletree Tournament in Edinburgh, [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 22nd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

The Penn State Nittany Lions had just come off a 10th inning victory off Michigan. One half hour later they played Illinois for another elimination game. That’s the thing about losing your first game in the Big Ten Tournament… every game you play, you’re playing for your tournament life. Scott Shaw allowed only 3 hits [...]

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Four University of Illinois players were named to All-Big Ten teams on Tuesday, Lars Davis and Tanner Roark Catcher Lars Davis was named first-team All Big Ten. That was a no-brainer given that he was also Big Ten Player of the Year. I wrote a little about his accomplishments a couple days ago. It does [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 26th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Ben Taylor from the U of I Athletic Department interviewed University of Illinois Designated Hitter Daniel Webb on Wednesday. Webb talks about hitting in the 5 hole and being the DH as well as the Illini’s series against Michigan, Indiana and the game against Missouri. You can download the video podcast and others from the [...]

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