Illinois Baseball Report

For this week’s two midweek games, we’re playing two state universities… Eastern Illinois and Southern Illinois.  Don’t look at their records.  Both are tough in their own way.  As for us, we’re even-steven.  The Illini are 13-13 overall and 3-3 against the Big Ten.  Let’s take a look at both teams.   Eastern Illinois Panthers [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 12th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Good news for former Illini firstbaseman Mike Rohde.  The Gary Southshore Railcats have signed him for the 2010 season.  Rohde, who was the league’s 2008 Rookie of the Year, moved to thirdbase last year.  And go figure, Rohde got a blogging gig for the Northwest Indiana Times last summer.  If we’re lucky, we’ll see more [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on February 1st, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Rohde rounding the bases in his Illinois days Mike Rohde, former firstbaseman for the University of Illinois, has been traded to Gary SouthShore RailCats.  The Railcats were the Northern League Champion in 2007. Rohde was acquired from the Sioux Falls Canaries and was included as the player to be named later in a trade that [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on January 22nd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Thursday, Illinois entered the loser’s bracket at the Big Ten Tournament as they lost to the Minnesota Golden Gophers 10-3. Starter Mike Stankiewicz The Gophers got to starter Mike Stankiewicz early as they hit him for 5 runs in the first inning and four runs before he got his first out. Brian Long replaced Stanky [...]

Filed under: 2007 Big Ten Tournament on May 24th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Ray Fisher stadium, home of the University of Michigan baseball team, seems like a pretty decent facility. I (and at least one other person who I gave directions to) had a little problem finding the place partially because of all the construction going on and because I got some bad advice from a bus driver. [...]

Filed under: 2007 Big Ten Tournament on May 23rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Here we go, Illini, Here we go! Here we go, Illini, here we go! It sure is nice to be in the winners’ bracket. No incredible comeback today at the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. Nope, the Illinois had things pretty much under control from the very start against the Iowa Hawkeyes as [...]

Filed under: 2007 Big Ten Tournament on May 23rd, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

First of all, let me get this out of the way: Yessss! All Right!! WOW! Way to go, Illini! Woo hoo! I-L-L, I-N-I!! Whew. Sunday’s scoreboard shows the incredible comeback by the Illini Yes, the Illini won today. In a must-win game in order to go on to the Big Ten tournament, the University of [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 20th, 2007 | 8 Comments »

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 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 19th, 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! »

Last night I went to the University of Illinois baseball game against Robert Morris with my friends Brando and Shawn. Shawn Roof took some time to chat with us about ball and bat physics Before the game, Brando and I went down to the left field fence to watch the guys warm up. Shawn Roof [...]

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