Illinois Baseball Report

It was a tight game but Coastal Carolina ended up on the winning side on Sunday.  They edged Illinois 5-4 on the last day of the Coastal Carolina Invitational.  Matt Milroy pitched fantastically in relief, striking out a career high six and allowing just one run.  He took over the pitching duties in the fifth [...]

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Five hits for Willie Argo on Saturday A split wasn’t in the cards against Gonzaga but the Illini found their bats and arms and won versus the Lamar Cardinals later in the afternoon at the YMBL Cardinal Classic in Beaumont, Texas today.  Against Gonzaga, it was more of the same for the first six innings [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 25th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

Fightingillini.com is now just beginning to coming out with their annual previews of the baseball program.  Part 1 was just posted today on pitching.  It will be a very different pitching staff than what we saw go to Regionals in 2011.  Overall, the team lost nine seniors plus three more to the draft and a [...]

Filed under: Analysis on February 8th, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

Illini freshman David Kerian rounds third base for the Blue team I’ve spent the last two afternoons at the ballpark and it’s a joy to see an Illinois  baseball game even if it’s just a scrimmage among the team. It’s nice to see the new guys… the freshmen and transfers who will help the team [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on October 4th, 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! »

Illinois’ offense never got going as they got shut out by the SIU Salukis Wednesday night 3-0.  The good guys only managed five hits for the game. Luke Joyce and the rest of the bullpen kept SIU scoreless for 4 plus innings Starter John Anderson had a rough fourth inning but in all he only [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 13th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Brandon Hohl can’t do it all.  Though he tried. Hohl did his best as he went 3 for 3 and drove in all four of Illini’s run in Saturday’s 7-4 loss to Iowa.  He even gave the Illini faithful some hope of a comeback as he hit a ninth-inning two-run homerun over the left field [...]

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

What a way to end a road trip!  Not only did the Illinois baseball team win their last two ballgames but newcomer Thomas Lindauer won co-freshman of the week honors from the Big Ten. After defeating St Louis on Saturday, I’m sure Illinois felt extra motivated to win Sunday’s game against Southern Illinois University.  Coming [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 23rd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

It was the second day of the Orange and Blue World Series at Illinois Field and there was an even bigger crowd of fans albeit mostly parents and family members. I even brought a friend (but managed to sneak a few photos anyways). Last year’s Friday starter Will Strack got the Orange team going.   [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on October 5th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Despite the rain, almost 500 fans (and their umbrellas) showed up to watch the Illini It was an off and on rainy day at Illinois Field for the Illini’s last home Big Ten game.  Finishing off their series against Purdue, they hoped to win the rubber game and help their chances in the Tournament hunt [...]

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