Drasen Johnson gets the ‘W’ in Illinois’ clinching victory Illinois Baseball dropped their last game of the regular season to Minnesota but they still had plenty to be happy about. With Friday’s 4-3 win over the Golden Gophers, the Orange and Blue will be advancing to the Big Ten Tournament next week. After all was [...]
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Kevin Duchene will take the mound vs Minnesota on Thursday This weekend, Illinois heads north to Minneapolis to finish out the regular season against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. While both teams both have 12 conference wins, the Gophers (12-6, 29-18 overall) have three less losses than Illinois (12-9, 31-15 overall) and are in a three-way [...]
Filed under: Game Previews on May 15th, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Celebration after Saturday’s win! Illinois got the job done this weekend! A three-game sweep is what the team needed against the Penn State Nittany Lions and that’s what they got. With an 8-6 win on Saturday and a comeback 5-4 victory on Sunday, the Illini improve their conference record to 12-9 and more importantly, [...]
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Kevin Duchene mowed down the opposition in Friday’s contest Wow! We just need about five more games like these and we might be set. Kevin Duchene pitched one of the best performances we’ve seen this season tonight against Penn State. Throwing a complete game two-hit shutout, Duchene struck out 11 PSU batters and kept them [...]
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Kevin Duchene and Ryan Castellanos both getting turns on the mound Penn State will be coming to Illinois Field this weekend for Illinois’ last home stand of the 2013 season. The Illini (28-15, 9-9 Big Ten) hope to add a few wins against the last place Nittany Lions (12-31, 3-15) before traveling to Minnesota [...]
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Justin Parr: Illinois’ Hit-man With last weekend’s 1-2 loss against Michigan State, things are getting a little more dire for Illinois Baseball. There are just two more series left in the regular season. While they are a respectable 9-9 in conference play, that’s still just good enough for 7th place. They’ll need to step it [...]
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Kevin Duchene gets the start on Saturday against the Spartans Illinois travels to East Lansing this weekend to take on the Michigan State Spartans. The series takes on special meaning as the Spartans (24-13, 7-5 Big Ten) reside one spot above Illinois in the conference standings. A series win would go a long way [...]
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Justin Parr advances to third in today’s victory against the Wildcats Sunday’s conclusion of the Illinois-Northwestern series at Illinois Field included just about everything… a Justin Parr hit (two, actually) to extend his hitting streak, a comeback for the Illini (26-3, 8-7 Big Ten) and a perhaps too-exciting-but-successful-nonetheless save for Bryan Roberts. Illinois won the [...]
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26 games in a row: Justin Parr’s infield hit to short breaks the record. Just as the game between the Illini and the Northwestern Wildcats began on Saturday afternoon, it began to rain. It was a little mist at first but a steady rain soon followed. The bad weather didn’t dampen the Illinois bats though. [...]
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Kevin Duchene hopes his rally cap with induce some Illini runs Friday night, Illinois and Northwestern were locked in an back-and forth extra-inning battle. The Wildcats eventually won the game 4-3 in 13 innings. For a few innings though, I saw some of the most exciting baseball at Illinois Field this year. Justin Parr did [...]
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