Illinois Baseball Report

Today, Illinois closed out the 2010 season with a 16-6 loss against Indiana.  It was a classic Hoosier victory with sixteen runs and seventeen hits (although only one homerun).  Senior Kevin Manson took the loss.  Indiana knocked Manson around pretty well.   They scored six runs (five earned) in three innings.  This evens Manson’s record at [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 22nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

I spent the weekend at my mom’s for Mother’s Day.  Admirable, I know but my family and I stayed in a relatively remote cabin with no wireless, Internet, TV or anything.  Now all things considered it’s a great place to stay but if you’re trying to keep up with how the Illinois baseball team is [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The Illini are back from their Spring Break and ready to play up here in the north.  Fortunately, the weather is going to cooperate… at least for this week.  On Tuesday, Illinois will take on Illinois State University at their place in Normal.  ISU is a member of the Missouri Valley Conference where they are [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on March 29th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Catching up on some long overdue news regarding Illini players who’ve gone on to the wild blue yonder otherwise known as the minor leagues: Scott Shaw, who was drafted by the New York Mets in the 2008 draft, had a pretty awesome 2009 for the Port St Lucie Mets.  Shaw led the Mets in many [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on November 14th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

A while back I posted a note saying that the Delmarva Shorebirds were taking questions to ask Kyle Hudson (and teammate L.J. Hoes) in an interview.  The Shorebirds have conducted their interview and it is now posted on the Shorebirds website.  I’m listening to it right now.  I see from the accompanying article that John [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 27th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Delmarva Shorebirds will be holding a Q&A session with former Illini Kyle Hudson.  Here are details on how to submit questions if you’re interested.  The deadline to submit is July 22.  The Q&A is an effort to “connect fans with the Shorebirds players”.  Fellow Shorebird L.J. Hoes will also be participating in the Q&A [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

As a follow-up to my note on Kyle Hudson yesterday, I’d like to give props to Hannah Seward who is a big Delmarva Shorebird fan.  A week or so ago, I linked to a photo of hers here on IBR.  Anyway, Hannah emailed to say hi and passed on her website, GoShorebirds.com which covers the [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Mattoon Charleston Journal-Gazette Times-Courier has a nice feature article on former Illini centerfielder Kyle Hudson who is faring just fine with the Oriole Class A Delmarva Shorebirds.  Hudson has 17 stolen bases so far this year and 31 runs scored both good for second on the team. Tags: kyle hudson, Media Related posts Illini [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 25th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Just ran across a nice photo of Kyle Hudson on Flickr presumably taken by a Delmarva Shorebird fan (with a VERY nice camera). …and yes, he’s running.  Tags: kyle hudson, minor leagues Related posts Photos of Road Trip to Indy to see Shawn Roof (2) Yay! I’m going on a road trip to Indy to [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 8th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Hudson in his Illinois days Former Illini and Mattoon, Illinois native Kyle Hudson is hitting the ball well lately while playing for the Delmarva Shorebirds, a team in the Class A South Atlantic League.  For those who don’t know (like I didn’t), Delmarva is situated on the peninsula of Maryland.  Hudson, who is still playing [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 2nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »