Illinois Baseball Report

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! »

In their second straight game against Michigan State, the University of Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team clinched their first Big Ten Tournament championship since 2000 by defeating the Spartans 9-1. Starting pitcher Corey Kimes threw a career high 9 innings and seven strikeouts and seemed to have the Spartans fooled.  Giving up no walks on [...]

Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament on May 28th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

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 »

Josh Parr:  All-Big Ten Second Team Yesterday, seven Illinois baseball players were honored with All-Big Ten awards.  While the Big Ten championship team was shut out of the All-Big Ten First team, Adam Davis, Pete Cappetta and Josh Parr were placed on the Second Team and Casey McMurray and Wes Braun were selected for the [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 25th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Just catching up on a few stories… The Daily Illini has a nice article on the Parr brothers not to mention Dad Cam who we find out was a shortstop himself at Huntington University. Speaking of shortstops, former Illini shortstop Brandon Wikoff (left, during his Illini days) has been doing quite well in AA ball. [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros, Media on May 7th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

I really hope you came to the park last night.  If you missed Illinois’ exciting 13-9 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes, you missed, in my guess, one of the best games of past few years.  It ranks up their with our win against the same Ohio State team two years ago and even the [...]

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

In case you haven’t heard, this Friday is the 3rd annual Bleacher Bum Barbeque.  In addition to a great Illinois-Ohio State baseball matchup, there will be free food, inflatable games for the kids,  fireworks and presumably a lot of people.  If you want to get in on the free grub, come by Illinois Field around [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on May 5th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

First things first, Wednesday’s game against Bradley has been canceled.  Something about impending storms and flash floods.  The game will not be made up. Last night’s contest against our sister school U of I Springfield began perhaps a little shaky but it didn’t take much time for the Illini to catch up and then out-slug [...]

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

Why is this man smiling? Because today, he got a lot of offensive support.  As a result, Illinois defeated Michigan 9-2.  Kevin Johnson pitched a gem Friday afternoon striking out eight Wolverine batters.  It was a complete game giving the bullpen some rest.  Johnson’s win today was only his second despite a nifty 3.16 ERA. [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 15th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Here’s the IlliniHQ.com’s summary from last night’s win against Iowa entitled ‘Shelton delivers’.  I get personal satisfaction from that because Thomas Shelton is a student in the department where I work.  Keep it up, Thomas! IlliniHQ also had an accompanying ‘just-the-facts’ article.  By the way, it’s official, Josh Parr injured is knee during practice which [...]

Filed under: Media on April 9th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »