Illinois Baseball Report

Josh Parr and Co will attempt to win their first Big Ten series this weekend This weekend, the Illini will be hosting their first Big Ten series.  They’ll be hosting the 11-15 Iowa Hawkeyes.  Weather permitting, that is.  I doubt the Illinois weather will prevent any action on Friday but the outlook on Saturday looks [...]

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Three hits for Brandon Hohl I’m not much in terms of fan support, I guess.  When I left my office to watch the Illinois play Benedictine, Gametracker told me we were ahead 4-1.  When I got to Illinois Field (just a hop, skip and a jump across the cemetery), they were still ahead 5-2.  But [...]

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With a Willie Argo triple and a Josh Parr rbi single, the Illini once again won in the ninth inning, this time against Penn State 7-6 in the Big Ten opener on Friday night. This extends the Illini’s winning streak to five games and they are now breaching the .500 mark at 9-10. Penn State [...]

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Josh Parr and company will try to make it five straight Friday afternoon Now it’s for real.  Throw everything else out the window.  These games count. Illinois baseball goes back east this weekend to Penn State for the 2011 Big Ten opener.  After opening the season 4-10, they’re now riding a four game winning streak [...]

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Josh Parr scores in the sixth Everything went right and Illinois crushed Illinois State 14-2. This extends their winning streak to four games just before their Big Ten opener this weekend against Penn State. John Anderson got his third win of the year but it was a committee of hurlers who really got the job [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 30th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

The Illini broke a three game losing streak today by defeating the St Louis University Billikens 7-4 at Abe Martin Field in Carbondale.  Corey Kimes pitched a fine game and some key offensive players came through with key hits. Kimes (right) only allowed two earned runs in seven innings giving up only five hits.  On [...]

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In the last two days, Illinois baseball took on the Northern Illinois Huskies on neutral territory twice in two different venues.  The ballgames were polar opposites of each other but end result was the same.  An Illinois loss. Thursday Thursday, the Illini played the Huskies at Rent One Park in Marion, IL.  With Kevin Johnson [...]

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Illinois just came away with a 1-2 weekend against Western Kentucky University.  Without being snide, they did win a game.  WKU have a tough team and Illinois came off a pretty rough weekend down in DeLand, Florida.  Saturday’s win came at the hands of the John Anderson / Chris Pack combination which has worked relatively [...]

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“Kevin Johnson pitched extremely well and deserved to win, but we were bad out of the bullpen,” -Coach Dan Hartleb on Friday’s game against Central Michigan   That about sums it up.  Illinois went into the top of the eighth inning ahead 5-0 in their first game of the Bright House Invitational.  The bullpen was [...]

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Casey McMurray leads the Illini in hitting (.391) and rbis (7) Sunday’s 5-1 loss to Florida Gulf Coast was a little disappointing but overall the Illini baseball should feel good about their 2-1 series against the Eagles.  According to the team press, this was the first time Illinois has won a series win against a [...]

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