Illinois Baseball Report

Through two games, the University of Illinois baseball team is hanging in the first round of the NCAA Regionals.  This comes after defeating Kansas State Saturday night 5-3 behind a formidable effort by starter John Anderson who only gave up one earned run in eight innings. Let’s take a quick look at both games of [...]

Filed under: NCAA Regionals on June 5th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

From all communications from Columbus, the mood is obviously high in the Illini camp.  Let me say from someone who has covered this team for the last five years, I’ve never seen a team put it together the way this Illinois team has.  Between you, me, and the Internet, I wasn’t sure what this team [...]

Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament, Awards on May 29th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

No comeback today.  No dramatic walk-offs in the ninth inning.  Not even a stray cat made its way onto the field tonight.  The Illini just cruised to a victory over their co-conference title holders Michigan State in the Big Ten Baseball Tournament by the score of 4-1. We can thank starter John Anderson (right) for [...]

Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament, Game Recaps on May 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Illinois came into last weekend’s series against Purdue tied for third and winning their last three Big Ten series.  After losing Friday’s game in low scoring fashion, 3-1, it looked like they had their work cut out for them the rest of the weekend.  The Orange and Blue proved they were up for the challenge [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Davis Hendrickson takes a cut in Illinois’ 12-7 loss on Saturday Illinois took a while to get their offense going on Saturday… too long it seems, as they lost to the Ohio State Buckeyes 12-7. It almost looked liked Buckeye hurler Brett McKinney, who came into the game with just one win, was unhittable, literally.  [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 7th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois took their second straight Big Ten series as they defeated the Northwestern Wildcats two games to one at Evanston. Illinois lost Friday night’s affair 9-2 but it seemed they were ready for revenge Saturday as they scored four runs in first inning.   That’s all they would need as John Anderson (left) pitched his third [...]

Filed under: Awards, Game Recaps on May 2nd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Starter John Anderson is on a roll.  He’ll go for another win this weekend. This weekend, the Illini will be traveling north this weekend to take on the Northwestern Wildcats. Note that Friday’s game will be an early game at 3pm.  Fire up Gametracker if you want to follow the game.   Northwestern Wildcats April [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 27th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

I was pleased to see that even in my absence, the Illini could win.  In fact, this past weekend’s series against Michigan State seemed to be one of most thrilling baseball played at Illinois Field this year.  The overall result?  Illinois took the Spartans two games to one. I even got reprimanded by my cousin [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 25th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Illinois baseball had a pretty rough Sunday against Michigan. In game 1, they were shut out for the third time this year, 3-0.  Pete Cappetta did manage to bang out two hits in the losing cause.  John Anderson does deserve some credit for his eight inning complete game where he only gave up seven hits [...]

Filed under: Game Previews, Game Recaps on April 18th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois’ offense never got going as they got shut out by the SIU Salukis Wednesday night 3-0.  The good guys only managed five hits for the game. Luke Joyce and the rest of the bullpen kept SIU scoreless for 4 plus innings Starter John Anderson had a rough fourth inning but in all he only [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 13th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »