Illinois Baseball Report

Wednesday, the Big Ten recognized the academic achievements of 1,037 conference athletes from Spring 2010 by naming them to the Academic All-Conference teams of their respective sport.  Of the 79 baseball players honored, ten were from the University of Illinois.  Congrats to them all!   University of Illinois Spring Academic All-Conference Honorees John Anderson Jr. [...]

Filed under: Awards on June 2nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Friday was Bleacher Bum Barbecue at Illinois Field.  I thought I’d post some photos reflective of today’s events.  If you’re looking for an update of the Illinois-Northwestern game itself, here it is). Catcher Adam Davis was confident before the game   Tonight’s attendance was the fifth largest in history     Autographs were signed by [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 30th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Southern Illinois made it interesting but the Illini held on for their 15th win last night.  they won 5-4.  SIU scored three runs in ninth against Bryan Roberts but Bryan closed it out for an Illinois victory.  Time is short so a few quick observations from looking at the box score.  Three more stolen bases [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 15th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

It was a rather disappointing weekend for the Illini who won just one against Iowa.  A sweep wasn’t out of the question for me.  The offense only generated six runs in the last two games and generally in college games that’s not enough.  Ironically, the one game when Illinois gave up the most runs, eight [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 11th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Could be that Illinois is finally showing what they are really capable of.?  I sure hope so.  After sweeping the doubleheader today against the Dartmouth Big Green today, the Illinois will come home to Illinois with a 5-1 record from their Spring Break trip.  That brings the Illini back up to .500 after starting the [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 24th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Today’s game against the Akron Zips was much like yesterday’s game against Bucknell.  Illinois fell behind early, caught up to tie later then it was a dogfight till the end.  The good news is that this time,  Illini came up the victor, defeating Akron 7-6.  It took some doing, though.  Akron almost outhit the Illini [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 19th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Ok, considering we came into the weekend 1-5, we had a pretty darn good weekend.  On a broader scale, we went 2-2 for the weekend which is a whole lot better than the ultimate result we had been getting.  Not to mention the exciting win against #12 Coastal Carolina Chants.  Maybe it doesn’t it doesn’t [...]

Filed under: Analysis on March 15th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Wow.  Simply amazing.  I admit, on Friday night when I left town for the weekend right after #12 Coastal Carolina scored 6 in the first inning, I didn’t hold much hope for an Illini victory.  When I got to my destination and checked the score, I literally had to do a double-take.  We won?  Wow!! [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 13th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

Well, the Illini gave St John’s a good fight.  It was pretty much the story of two games within one.  The first one where the Illini had them strung up in the first five innings, winning 4-0.  It was indeed the 3-run fifth inning when Illinois did most of the damage keyed by a 2-run [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 1st, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

That’s the way to start the season! Consider that the Illinois baseball team went into the Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenge cold having missed the first weekend of play due to weather while their opponents, Notre Dame, got a three game head start.  Consider also that same Notre Dame team won all three of their games [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 27th, 2010 | 2 Comments »