Illinois Baseball Report

formerlyanonymous who covers Michigan baseball for mgoblog.com, did a fair assessment of the 2010 Big Ten Baseball teams. 
While of course, I would like to see Illinois higher in his preview (he puts him in the second tier after Ohio State, Michigan and Minnesota), it’s pretty consistent with what I’ve seen elsewhere.  And he has [...]

Filed under: Analysis on February 18th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois and starting pitcher Bryan Roberts took care of business today as they shut out Northwestern Wildcats 9-0 at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston.  With help from Michigan who defeated Ohio State, they are now in sole possession of first place in the Big Ten conference.
Roberts was lights out as he struck out seven [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 3rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Now, that Illinois win was just a little TOO interesting.
With a 15-3 lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning, the Northwestern Wildcats rallied for nine runs to make it close.  Fortunately, Will Strack came in and shut the door on the ‘Cats, pitching a perfect ninth.  The final score was 15-12 Illinois. 
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Filed under: Game Recaps on May 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Once again, Michigan scored first but Illinois came back to win another one from Wolverines to take the series from UM in Ann Arbor.
Michigan scored two in the first but Illinois rallied to put three on the board in the second inning thanks to consecutive singles by Aaron Johnson and Josh Parr and a sac [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I admit it.  From down here in Illinois, things didn’t look too good for the Orange and Blue Saturday afternoon.  Down by scores of 4-0 and 6-3, it looked like Michigan might go up 2-0 in the series.
But wow, what a comeback!  Behind the offensive efforts of Joe Bonadonna (3 for 5, 2B, 4 rbis, [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 11th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

After two home weekends against Big Ten teams, Illinois goes on the road.  More specifically, to Ray Fisher Stadium in Ann Arbor to play 2008 Big Ten champs University of Michigan. 
We decided that the Q&A with the Indiana baseball blog Behind the Plate went so well, we decided to do it again.  This time [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Lots to talk about in the wake of Illinois’ series victory over (then) #1 LSU Tigers last weekend.  The Illini won Friday’s game and Sunday’s game both on the efforts of good starting pitching by Phil Haig and Ben Reeser respectively.
I say "then #1" because well, it’s no surprise that LSU dropped in the rankings.  [...]

Filed under: Awards on March 9th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Some quick news links from around the Big Ten baseball world
-Brian from Big Ten Hardball wraps up the BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge and chose his All-Weekend Team.  Brandon Wikoff and Dom Altobelli made first team.  Aaron Johnson made honorable mention.
-Yes, the Big Ten did reign supreme in the Challenge.  They won 15 of the 24 [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on February 26th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

I’m back in Urbana, Illinois and before we close the book on the 2008 Big Ten Tournament, I’d like to provide some last comments and maybe some cool photos that didn’t make it into postings last week.

Michigan’s All-Big Ten Player of the Year Nate Recknagel at the plate
Once again, congratulations to the Michigan Wolverines who [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, Analysis on May 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The University of Michigan Wolverines have won the Big Ten Tournament championship.  But first things first:

Dan Black knocked out 3 homers against Indiana today
This afternoon, Purdue and Indiana played each other for the right to take on Michigan.  Purdue put runs on the board easily thanks to the efforts of Dan Black who blasted 3 [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 24th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »