Illinois Baseball Report

Game Two’s scoreboard says it all It wasn’t a good day for Illinois baseball. They lost both games to the Michigan State Spartans and it wasn’t really close. They were outscored 23-7 for the two games. I hope Coach Hartleb has some good words of wisdom for boys in Orange and Blue. They need to [...]

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Tuesday night the Illini fell to the Missouri Tigers 12-5. For those scoring at home, this does not affect their Big Ten record and therefore their fight to make the Big Ten Tournament is unaffected, at least standings-wise. I’m sure the Illini would have liked to go into the last regular season series of the [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

What a lovely day it was for a ballgame! Of course it would have been nicer had we not missed the first few innings because I forgot my Go Illini card at home. Reliever Brian Long By the time we got there Brian Long had things well in hand. He was lights out in relief [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 13th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

It couldn’t get any better today for the University of Illinois. With Illinois going against Michigan in a doubleheader, I had Gametracker going on all day today. When the Illini won the first in extras that was great. When they won the second game behind a solid performance by Scott Shaw, I was ecstatic. I [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 5th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

…they’re going to need it for this coming weekend’s series against ranked Michigan. It was an offensive display for the University of Illinois and a lack of fundamentals on defense for Greenville. Either way you look at it, Illinois crushed them 16-1. There was no doubt from the beginning as the Illini scored 6 in [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 3rd, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

The University of Illinois hosted the Gophers of Minnesota last weekend. Once again, the Illini won the opener. The rest of the series… eh, not so much. The Gophers took three of the four games. Friday’s starting pitcher Tanner Roark deserves some credit as he is 4-0 in conference play. For the season, Roark is [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 30th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Ok, where was everyone last night?? Official attendance was only 669 at Illinois Field to see the University of Illinois defeat the Eastern Illinois Panthers 8-0. Ben Reeser gave the Illini 4 lights-out innings The Illinois got some fantastic pitching from starter Ben Reeser (4 IP, 3 H) as well as relievers Scott Shaw (4 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 25th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

University of Illinois secondbaseman Ryan Hastings has been named Big Ten Player of the week. Lately, Hastings has had a hot bat (and by a “hot bat”. I mean that literally). Last week, he was 8 for 11 and had the game-winning hit against the Buckeyes in Game 1 of their double header on Sunday. [...]

Filed under: Awards on April 12th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

I didn’t make it out to Illinois Field tonight but had to be content with listening to the game on the radio. I picked it up when Illinois was up 4-0. Unfortunately, that was all the scoring they would do. Brandon Wikoff’s 3 hits and a solid start from Billy Barrett (2 ER in 5 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps, Media on April 10th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

The cold winds blew but they finally got some games in. Illinois and Ohio State’s games were postponed on Friday and canceled on Saturday but on Sunday everything went as planned. Well, everything except for the loss in the twinighter. More on that later. Batting leader Lars Davis up to bat in the first game [...]

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