Illinois Baseball Report

In their second straight game against Michigan State, the University of Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team clinched their first Big Ten Tournament championship since 2000 by defeating the Spartans 9-1. Starting pitcher Corey Kimes threw a career high 9 innings and seven strikeouts and seemed to have the Spartans fooled.  Giving up no walks on [...]

Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament on May 28th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Maybe it’s a bit of schadenfreude on my part but sometimes I like to read recaps on Illinois victories that were posted in newspapers in the enemy’s territory.  Here’s the write-up on last night’s game in the Detroit Press. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with good ol’ friendly Illini HQ and fightingillini.com either. Tonight, Illinois [...]

Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament, Media on May 28th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

No comeback today.  No dramatic walk-offs in the ninth inning.  Not even a stray cat made its way onto the field tonight.  The Illini just cruised to a victory over their co-conference title holders Michigan State in the Big Ten Baseball Tournament by the score of 4-1. We can thank starter John Anderson (right) for [...]

Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament, Game Recaps on May 27th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Pete Cappetta:  Tough against the Big Ten I was chatting over Facebook with a friend who is MSU baseball fan.  He says “I was taught it is nice to share. Congrats to both teams, and maybe we will settle this on the field at the tournament.”. It is truly a nice sentiment. Though I bet [...]

Filed under: 2011 Big Ten Tournament on May 24th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I was pleased to see that even in my absence, the Illini could win.  In fact, this past weekend’s series against Michigan State seemed to be one of most thrilling baseball played at Illinois Field this year.  The overall result?  Illinois took the Spartans two games to one. I even got reprimanded by my cousin [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 25th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Dang, it looks like no baseball tonight.  After raining most of the day here in Champaign-Urbana, the sun actually came out for about 20 minutes around 4:00pm.  It did resort to cloudiness but I half wondered if they would go ahead with the game.  Looking at the forecast (it’s calling for more thunderstorms around 7pm), [...]

Filed under: Announcements on April 22nd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

This weekend brings the Michigan State Spartans to Champaign, Illinois.  Looking at the weather forecast, Saturday may actually be a decent day for baseball… cloudy, maybe but warm and not wet.  Friday and Sunday may be a different story, however.  I’m still holding hope. I really do hope that we can get Friday’s game in.  [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 21st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

If we keep these 1-2 Big Ten weekends up, we’ll be watching the Big Ten tournament from home.  With Illinois’ 16-1 loss to the Michigan State Spartans on Saturday, that will make it three straight weekends against conference teams with only one win. MSU’s 16 runs were spread throughout the game and hence, all our [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 25th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Friday, Illinois split a doubleheader with the Michigan State Spartans.  They eked out a win in Game 1 in 10 innings by the score of 4-3 but were outslugged 10-2 in Game 2.  In any other year, I would pretty much expect a split with the Spartans.  But this year, coming away with a split [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 24th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

The Big Ten Tournament banner including Illinois’ Brandon Wikoff As always, I had a great time at the Big Ten Tournament.  Win or lose, it’s a culmination of everything that the Illinois team has worked so hard for all season.  They’ve exceeded everyone else’s expectations this season and each one of them should be proud. [...]

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