Illinois Baseball Report

Thanks to Brian DeCaussin from Big Ten Hardball for taking this photo of me in front of the field at Ray Fisher stadium at the University of Michigan. The stadium is great and the staff here have been very friendly and helpful. Special thanks goes to the lady in the Big Ten Conference T-shirt booth [...]

Filed under: 2007 Big Ten Tournament on May 25th, 2007 | 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! »

The University of Illinois hosted the Gophers of Minnesota last weekend. Once again, the Illini won the opener. The rest of the series… eh, not so much. The Gophers took three of the four games. Friday’s starting pitcher Tanner Roark deserves some credit as he is 4-0 in conference play. For the season, Roark is [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 30th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

I didn’t make it out to Illinois Field tonight but had to be content with listening to the game on the radio. I picked it up when Illinois was up 4-0. Unfortunately, that was all the scoring they would do. Brandon Wikoff’s 3 hits and a solid start from Billy Barrett (2 ER in 5 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps, Media on April 10th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

University of Illinois had their hitting shoes on Tuesday as they scored 11 runs and beat Western Michigan. The offense included 3 home runs by Lars Davis, Nick Stockwell, and Ryan Hastings. Davis, who went 4 for 5 with 4 ribbies, raised his season average to .478, good enough to lead the Big Ten. He’s [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 5th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

My hope that Illinois, riding a two-game winning streak, a streak that got them into the Big Ten tournament, would give them the momentum they needed to sweep through the tourney.  Gopher starting pitcher Cole DeVries had something to say about that. Gopher hurler Cole DeVries You see, Minnesota was riding a streak of their own.  [...]

Filed under: Big Ten on May 25th, 2006 | 2 Comments »

The Big Ten tournament starts tomorrow.  Fifth-seeded Illinois will take on fourth-seeded Minnesota in the first round at 11:00am.  Illinois has the upper hand in the season series, 3-1. In other Illini news, Brian Blomquist has been chosen Big Ten Pitcher of the Week following his impressive performance against Michigan State in the last game [...]

Filed under: Awards, Game Previews on May 23rd, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »

Didn’t make it to the Illini game yesterday. Elected instead to take my 5-year daughter out on a date. It was a close call but she’s a real sweet talker sometime. Got back in time to listen to most of it on the radio… if only I could stay awake. It wasn’t that the game [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 27th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

The first two games were played today at Illinois Field. Ohio State 7 Michigan 3 Minnesota 14 Iowa 7 But now I’m confused. Look at the updated bracket and see if this makes sense to you. According to the playoff bracket, shouldn’t Illinois be playing Ohio State? Anyway, Illinois is scheduled to play Minnesota Thursday [...]

Filed under: Big Ten, Game Recaps on May 25th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »

After winning their first game against Minnesota Friday night, Illinois seemed to fall apart for the rest of the 4 game series. Saturday’s game was won by the Gophers 5-4. The Illini struck out 12 times. Game two was postponed till Sunday because of rain. On Sunday, things didn’t get much better. The Illini dropped [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »