Illinois Baseball Report

In today’s tournament matchup between Indiana and Purdue, there’s really not much to say except that Eric Arnett showed up, pitched, and won.  Arnett (above) won his twelfth game of 2009 by shutting out the Boilermakers for seven innings and struck out 10 batters in the process.  He only allowed four hits and one walk.  [...]

Filed under: 2009 Big Ten Tournament on May 20th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois rallied today but it was too little, too late.  Purdue took the last game of the regular season from Illinois 12-8.  The Illini managed to rally for 7 runs in the last four innings but the Purdue lead was already too great.  The Boilermakers had scored seven runs before Illinois drew first blood in [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Boy, that had to be quite an ending to the Illini-Purdue game Friday!  I was a naughty boy and had Game Tracker running on my laptop during a conference meeting.  It was a little hard to concentrate on matters at hand with Dan Black at the plate.  Sorry, Boss! Will Strack had things in hand [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

With four teams vying for first place in the Big Ten, Illinois went into their series with Purdue hoping to go 3-0.  Unfortunately, after game 1, that isn’t going to be a reality.    Today they lost to Purdue 12-5.  They battled through 4 1/2 innings, tying the game 3-3.  However, Purdue scored three in the [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Illinois will be traveling to West Lafayette to face Purdue for the last regular season series of the season.  Not quite a weekend series as they will be playing Thursday-Saturday.    Game #49 Record: 32-16 (15-6 Big Ten) vs Purdue University Boilermakers at Lambert Field, West Lafayette, IN May 14 3:00pm CT   May 15 [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on May 12th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The University of Michigan Wolverines have won the Big Ten Tournament championship.  But first things first: Dan Black knocked out 3 homers against Indiana today This afternoon, Purdue and Indiana played each other for the right to take on Michigan.  Purdue put runs on the board easily thanks to the efforts of Dan Black who [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 24th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Indiana catcher Josh Phegley I’m still getting used to the fact that Indiana is still in the tournament. Obvious underdogs not just of the tourney but the Big Ten season in general, they’ve come a long way. Coming in to the tournament as the #6 seed, they didn’t overwhelm in the first game when they [...]

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Indiana defeated Penn State 11-8 and Michigan continues their winning ways by defeating Purdue 6-1.  You can read my recap of the games at The College Baseball Blog. Indiana’s Celebration… Penn State’s Disbelief I will say that the PSU-IU game was one of the best games I’ve seen at the Big Ten Tournament.  Never had [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 23rd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

The newly renovated home of the Michigan Wolverine baseball team with the complicated name of “The Wilpon Baseball Complex home of Ray Fisher Stadium”.  Too much like Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.  Anyway, it IS nice. Joe Blackburn has once again gotten a mohawk like last year. Speaking of hair and ballplayers, it looks like [...]

Filed under: 2008 Big Ten Baseball Tournament on May 21st, 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 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 20th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »