Illinois Baseball Report

The weekend notes for the Al Ogletree Tournament have just been posted on the fightingillini.com website. Phil Haig is indeed the starter Friday night and Aaron Martin is on the hill Saturday.   and Ben Reeser will have to go to bed early Saturday night.  He’ll have a 9 am start on Sunday. Good luck, guys! [...]

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Last weekend it was Florida… this coming weekend, our boys are going to Texas for the Al Ogletree Classic.  More specifically, they’ll be visiting Edinburg Stadium.  That’s the home of the University of Texas Pan American Broncs who are currently 0-4 this season.  Don’t make fun though.  UTPA was the home field of Al Ogletree [...]

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Illinois Baseball lost Saturday night against Notre Dame but rebounded versus West Virginia today to conclude the BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge down in Florida.  I think it would be safe to say that both games were slugfests. Notre Dame on Saturday Illinois had a chance to win it against the Fighting Irish.  They were up [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 22nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Woo-hoo!  This is one I would have really liked to seen in person.  The Illinois defeated Iowa in the first game of the BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge in Clearwater, Florida. Down 2-1 in the sixth, the Illini came back to score five runs thanks in part to three Iowa fielding miscues.  Iowa never really recovered [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 21st, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Congrats to Illini baseball Phil Haig and Brandon Wikoff.  Both recently were honored by the Northwoods League. Hurler Phil Haig was named to the Northwoods League All-Star team after going 4-1 with a tiny 1.05 ERA for the Rochester Honkers.  So far this season, he’s struck out 42 while walking 18.  Tonight, Wikoff was named [...]

Filed under: Awards on July 11th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Phil Haig was lights out on Saturday On Saturday, Phil Haig was all business as he threw a two-hit shutout against the Purdue Boilermakers as Illinois won 2-0. The day before, Purdue scored 27 runs in the doubleheader.  That same team was stymied by the freshman Haig who struck out three and walked two in [...]

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Joe Bonadonna’s always in a hurry Illinois split a doubleheader with Northwestern Saturday losing a squeaker 4-3 then in the second game, crushing the Wildcats 11-5 behind a pair of career-first homers by Kyle Hudson and John Schlichter. The kids and I got to the park just as fans were spilling of the stands after [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 4th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Next Game: Game #32-35 Fri April 18 3:05pm Sat April 19 1:05pm DH Sun April 20 1:05pm Record: 18-13 Big 10 6-6 vs University of Minnesota at Siebert Field, Minneapolis, MN It’s going to be a big series up north this weekend.  The Illini are one game ahead of the Golden Gophers in the Big [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 17th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Boy, I didn’t see that coming. Illinois were defeated (dominated, more like it) by our neighbor to the south, Eastern Illinois University by the score of 13-3. EIU scored 4 in the first inning and never looked back.  After their six run inning in the 3rd inning, it seemed it was already over.  Illinois managed [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 15th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Michigan defeated Illinois tonight 9-5. I shot this as I was walking to the stadium.  The flags are located at direct centerfield.  I could tell right away we were going to have a slugfest. Some Michigan ballplayers were spotted outside the stadium during batting practice to flag down the balls that got hit out. Ok, [...]

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