Game over: Illini bats dwindle against Gopher pitching, 3-1

Davis Hendrickson drove home the sole run in today’s loss In an elimination game against Minnesota at the Big Ten Tournament, Illinois (34-18) couldn’t hold on to a slim lead and lost 3-1 and will have to say goodbye to Minneapolis.  Ryan Castellanos was a hard luck loser as he…

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Kevin Duchene shuts down Nits, 9-0

Kevin Duchene mowed down the opposition in Friday’s contest Wow! We just need about five more games like these and we might be set.  Kevin Duchene pitched one of the best performances we’ve seen this season tonight against Penn State.  Throwing a complete game two-hit shutout, Duchene struck out 11…

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Illini Baseball outslug Purdue Friday, 17-12

  Thomas Lindauer got Illinois off to a good start with his seventh homerun of 2013 Illinois and Purdue got off to a raucous start Friday night when both teams scored 12 runs in the 40-minute first inning alone.  It wasn’t over yet either.  Both teams combined for 29 runs…

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It was about time for a banner change

With much hesitation, I changed the banner of IBR.  I really liked the photo that was up there before (shown above).  It wasn’t the sharpest image but boy, there was a lot of action and the expression on every guy’s face face is unique and priceless.  And what’s with Corey…

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Illinois Summer League wrap-up

Fightingillini.com has just posted a solid summary of this year’s summer league action by the Illini.  Big congrats go out to Will Krug who was chosen to the National Amateur Baseball Federation College World Series All-Tournament team after his performance with the Crystal Lake Cardinals.  For the summer, he hit…

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Illinois breaks 3 game losing streak against Bradley 6-3

We’ll just forget the last three games.  Tonight was a different night. Illinois broke their three game losing streak Wednesday night in Peoria against the Bradley Braves winning a no-nonsense 6-3 game.  Nick Chmielewski pitched six solid innings for the win.  The win was probably a happy one for the…

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With Sunday split, Illinois posts 3-1 weekend mark

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…

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Illinois trims the Huskies 7-2

John Kravetz is 3-0 this season Illinois scored seven unanswered runs to begin the game while starter John Kravetz pitched a solid eight innings in Illinois’ 7-2 win against Northern Illinois down in Carbondale today.  Kravetz won his third game of the year and Illinois has won five of their…

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