Will senior Willie Argo help his team to victory in 2012? As I say before every opening series, now it’s gets real. However in 2012, it REALLY gets real. With the announced 2012 schedule which is one of the toughest the Illinois baseball team has seen in a while,…
Fightingillini.com is now just beginning to coming out with their annual previews of the baseball program. Part 1 was just posted today on pitching. It will be a very different pitching staff than what we saw go to Regionals in 2011. Overall, the team lost nine seniors plus three more…
Kelly Norris Jones rounds the paths Yes, baseball in January. On Tuesday, I got word that the Illinois Baseball team was practicing at Illinois Field so I grabbed the Canon and got out to shoot some photos. Two hurlers that the Illini will depend on in the 2012 season: …
Illini freshman David Kerian rounds third base for the Blue team I’ve spent the last two afternoons at the ballpark and it’s a joy to see an Illinois baseball game even if it’s just a scrimmage among the team. It’s nice to see the new guys… the freshmen and transfers…
I stopped by practice again today after work. I’m glad I did because I ran into my friend John Santas from the Dugout Club. John always makes watching baseball that much more fun. There was a special visitor at today’s practice at Illinois Field. Josh Parr, who was drafted just…
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…
Fightingillini.com came out with their Illinois Baseball Pitchers Preview for 2010 today. Nothing too earth-shattering about it nor should it have been. The outlook with the pitching staff was relatively predictable. Sophomores Will Strack and Bryan Roberts, who both looked real good last year and virtually unhittable at some points,…
College summer leagues have already begun their seasons and Illinois players are among those playing. The University of Illinois baseball program has sent 21 players throughout the the country to 13 teams in nine different summer leagues. The Northwoods League, always a big client of the U of I, will…
Day and night. That’s how I’d describe the difference between Minnesota on Thursday and Minnesota on Friday. And unfortunately, Illinois had to play them Friday. The same Gopher team that couldn’t buy a hit against Indiana the day before and had its pitching pounded by their offense, came out a…
The Illini defeated the Western Illinois Leathernecks at Illinois Field by the score of 7-1 thanks in much part to the bat of thirdbaseman Dominic Altobelli (below left). Altobelli slammed 2 homeruns (one to left-center, the other to right) for rbis. His 3 for 4 night extended his hitting streak…