Illinois Baseball Report

Dominic Altobelli is on a roll now in the minors.  Playing for the Casper Ghosts in the Rookie League, he has a 11 game hit streak going back July 1.  According to his father Mike, Dom’s manager is trying him out at 2B just to keep him in the lineup.  For the year, Altobelli is [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

By now, the minor league season has started for the Illinois players who were drafted earlier this month.  Let’s take a look at how they are doing in their new minor league settings. Well, Brandon Wikoff is off to a hot start for the Tri-City ValleyCats in New York State.  After last night’s two-hit performance, [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

  Bonadonna:  Bound for Rookie League As of today, four Illinois draftees have signed pro contracts with their respective teams.  Big Ten Network has the info. Brandon Wikoff has signed with the Astros and will report to single-A Tri-City Valley Cats in the New York-Penn League.  He’ll start June 23.  As mentioned before, Dominic Altobelli [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 16th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

  I just got off the phone with Mike Altobelli, father of Dominic Altobelli.  Turns out a representative of the Colorado Rockies will be coming to the Altobelli household tonight so that Dom can sign his first pro contract.  Over the weekend, Dominic will be heading to his first assignment which I assume will be [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Dominic Altobelli, our thirdbaseman, has made it to pros.  As someone who watched Illinois games from the left field fence, I got to see a lot of Dom so that makes me happy.  I’m also happy for his parents who I got to know pretty well.  They were kind enough to let me hitch a [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 10th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

I really thought we had them.  Going into the bottom of the sixth, we had a three-run lead.  But then again, this was Ohio State and we all know about their offense.  The Bucks scored two runs in each of the last three innings to defeat Illinois 7-4. Aaron Johnson trots around the bases after [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament, Game Recaps on May 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Just a few photos that were taken today that I thought might be interesting: Huntington Park has been getting rave reviews from everyone I talk to.  It’s a very nice facility with some really cool features that we’re just used to at the college level… … a cool video-enhanced scoreboard… a sign measuring the speed [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 20th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

  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! »

Boy, that had to be quite an ending to the Illini-Purdue game Friday!  I was a naughty boy and had Game Tracker running on my laptop during a conference meeting.  It was a little hard to concentrate on matters at hand with Dan Black at the plate.  Sorry, Boss! Will Strack had things in hand [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2009 | 2 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 »