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 [...]

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 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 19th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

It was a frustrating weekend for the Illini as they had leads in all three games against University of Texas-Arlington only to lose them. Friday’s game was a heartbreaker lost in extra innings. Instead of dwelling on the losses (you can check out box scores yourself with fightingillini.com’s new web feature, click on a game [...]

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

Were you worried? Just a little bit? I wasn’t. Ok, maybe a little bit. When the University of Illinois lost all three against Louisiana-Lafayette two weekends ago, it does make one pause to think. But consider this. The Ragin’ Cajuns had the advantage of having played five games already. Not only that, they WON all [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 6th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

The University of Illinois baseball team are two games into a three-game set with the Ragin’ Cajuns of Louisiana-Lafayette. Do you want the good news or bad news first? Last night, I logged into Gametracker just as the game was entering the ninth inning. The Illini were down 13-0. For those scoring at home, that [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 24th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

This time it’s the Infielders and Outfielders Preview. In 2006, the Illini lost a big chunk of their team to graduation. Well, guess what? The young, green team of 2006 have one more year of experience and are that much better for it Coach Hartleb says: “Shawn plays with such a high energy level,” Hartleb [...]

Filed under: Media on February 20th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Mike Rohde The University of Illinois baseball players have begun a blog of sorts. The best way to find them is to go to the U of I baseball page and find the entries from there. At the very least, we can find out what going on with the team. Jake Toohey writes that the [...]

Filed under: Media on September 20th, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »

Tuesday and Wednesday, the Western Michigan Broncos were in town.  The offense couldn’t get going for the first game and the Broncos won 7-2. The dam broke the next game and the Illini scored 16 runs including 4 rbis by Dave Schultz and 3 each by Aaron Ifft and Mike Rohde.  Final score: 16-5. Illinois went [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 10th, 2006 | 2 Comments »

In front of a record crowd Friday night, the Illini eked out a win against rival Purdue, 9-7.  I was there and the wind, blowing to right-center, was so strong, I had a hard time holding on to my hat. That same wind played havoc with fly balls, taking two Purdue hits deep for homers.  [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 1st, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »