Illinois Baseball Report

Last night, Bryan Roberts, who is spending his summer pitching for the Dupage Dragons, made the best of his relief appearance against the Butler Blue Sox in Prospect League play.  After his starting pitcher gave up seven runs, Roberts came in and pitched 3 2/3 innings of shutout ball. His Dragons didn’t pony up the [...]

Filed under: Summer League on June 17th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

 There’s an excellent article about Illini 2B Josh Parr who is spending his summer in the state capital playing for the Springfield Sliders.  The article is focusing on Josh’s strong Christian faith.  Springfield is only an hour and half away… maybe I’ll try to swing over there and catch a game sometime.  Something at the [...]

Filed under: Summer League on June 13th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

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 see eight players from Illinois [...]

Filed under: Summer League on June 1st, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

I started Illinois Baseball Report at the beginning of this year essentially because I thought the team really deserved it.  I put a lot of time into it during the the the season and it’s been a lot of fun. Even though the University of Illinois baseball season is over, the pace might be less [...]

Filed under: Blog Administration on May 27th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

The Rochester Post-Bulletin has a nice writeup on Illini catcher Aaron Johnson who is spending his summer playing for the Rochester Honkers.  Haha, I love this bit: “Aaron likes to complain, not in a bad way, but in a loud way,” Honkers manager Jason Plourde said with a grin. “If the movie’s not right on [...]

Filed under: Summer League on July 5th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Illini secondbaseman Joe Bonadonna’s summer has been quite tumultuous up north.  The weekend after the amateur draft, Joe signed his release waiver from the Duluth Huskies where he’s been a fan favorite for years.  Huskies management turned in the waiver and despite that Bonadonna had expressed regrets, there was nothing the team could do according [...]

Filed under: Summer League on July 2nd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

The Duluth News Tribune has a rather unfortunate news item regarding Illini secondbaseman Joe Bonadonna who was stationed up in the Minnesota town to play for the Duluth Huskies in the Northwoods League.  The upshot of the story:  Bonadonna was so disappointed about not being selected in last week’s baseball draft that he signed his [...]

Filed under: Summer League on June 10th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Now that the Illinois baseball season is over, many of the players will be going on vacation, right?  Wrong.  Most of the returning players are off to go play in collegiate summer leagues.  Twenty-four Illini are dispersing throughout the country and playing in a number of collegiate summer leagues out there.  Some of the Illini [...]

Filed under: Summer League on May 30th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

 Congrats are in order for University of Illinois’ Joe Bonadonna.  He was awarded the Rawlings Silver Glove for his play at second base while playing second base for the Duluth Huskies in the Northwoods League.  In addition to his fine work with the glove, Bonadonna broke the league record with an incredible 75 stolen bases.  [...]

Filed under: Awards, Summer League on September 18th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

In their respective collegiate summer leagues, Illini players Ben Reeser and Nick Stockwell won post season awards before heading back to the University of Illinois for classes.  Reeser was dubbed Coastal Plain League Defensive Player of the Year after winning a Fayetteville Swampdog team record 8 games with a 1.61 ERA.  Stockwell ended the summer [...]

Filed under: Awards, Summer League on August 24th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »