Illinois Baseball Report

Ryan Hastings: 3 for 4, 2 doubles It was a valiant effort to be sure. But Illinois will not be playing any more games in the Big Ten Tournament and will be heading home. Indiana defeated them 14-7 earlier today in Day 3 of the Big Ten Tournament. Despite the score, Illinois made it interesting. [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 23rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

There’s good news and bad news.  Well, the good news is the Illini are going to the Big Ten tournament and we have Indiana to thank for that.  The Hoosiers swept the Michigan State Spartans in Friday’s doubleheader and thereby eliminating them from tournament qualification. So on to Ann Arbor we go next week! The [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Next Game: Games #50-53 Thur May 15 6:05pm Fri May 16 3:00 (DH) Sat May 17 4:00pm (DH) Record: 29-20 Big Ten 15-12 vs Purdue at Illinois Field Champaign, IL Ok, Illini Fans, this is it.  Our magic number is down to two.  The Purdue Boilermakers are coming to town and the Illini need all [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on May 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Friday night games continue to be plagued by the weather.  Fortunately, Illinois and Ohio State were able to get a good six plus innings in before the game was called.  Even better, the Illini have a good head start on the Buckeyes leading 7-2. Starter Kevin Manson pitched a gem of a game allowing just [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 9th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Joe Bonadonna’s always in a hurry Illinois split a doubleheader with Northwestern Saturday losing a squeaker 4-3 then in the second game, crushing the Wildcats 11-5 behind a pair of career-first homers by Kyle Hudson and John Schlichter. The kids and I got to the park just as fans were spilling of the stands after [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 4th, 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 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 29th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Saturday, the Illini went 1-2. Not every day that’s going to happen. My plan was to go the ballpark to see the Illini finish up Friday’s game with the Nittany Lions and play their regularly scheduled doubleheader and was pleasantly surprised to see my buddy Brando had shown up to root on the Illini. I [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

When then wind is blowing out like this you’re going to expect a high scoring game.  In this case, it might contribute to bad weather.  In this case, rain which suspended that game in the eighth inning.  Friday’s game will be be picked up at 2pm Saturday to be followed by the regularly scheduled doubleheader.  [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In the most uneven affair this season, the University of Illinois baseball team manhandled the Blueboys of Illinois College 17-0. It started in the third when Craig Lutes scored on a double steal.  That run would be the first of eight in that frame.  Daniel Webb contributed a 3-run homerun to boost the score.  Ironically, [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 9th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Texas State 2 Illinois 1 Today’s game was a mirror image of yesterday’s.  Friday Illinois scratched out runs out of nothing.  Today, the hits were there but runs were scarce. Illini starting pitcher Mike Stankiewicz pitched a six inning gem allowing six hits and one run.  Unfortunately, the Illinois offense didn’t back him up and [...]

Filed under: Game Previews, Game Recaps on February 23rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »