For those interested, local online magazine Smile Politely just published an article I wrote. It’s a summer wrap-up of Illinois baseball including highlights from summer leagues and minor league action of former Illini. Once again, I’d like to express thanks to Smile Politely’s interest in covering college baseball throughout the…
Fightingillini.com has just posted a solid summary of this year’s summer league action by the Illini. Big congrats go out to Will Krug who was chosen to the National Amateur Baseball Federation College World Series All-Tournament team after his performance with the Crystal Lake Cardinals. For the summer, he hit…
Three Illini players contributed to the Rochester Honkers’ win in their last game of the Northwoods League season last night. Kevin Johnson (left, 3-3) pitched a five inning shutout for the win while Reid Roper went 3 for 4 with a grand slam. To top it off, Justin Parr went…
Justin Parr is really putting it together for the Rochester Honkers in the Northwoods League this summer. Last night, he extended his hitting streak to 21 games and did it in style. He went 4 for 5 in the Honkers’ 11-3 defeat of Alexandria and hit a homerun with four…
The Post-Bulletin has a good article on the Parr twins, Justin and Jordan who are both playing for the Rochester Honkers in the Northwoods League. It sounds like Honkers Manager Zach Etheridge is getting used to seeing double: “I’m finally to the point where I can tell them apart…”I didn’t…
Congrats to Illini secondbaseman Reid Roper who was named Northwoods League Player of the Night tonight. Roper who is playing for the Rochester Honkers drove in four runs with a three-run double and a rbi double. Justin Parr also got into the action. Playing center field and left field, Parr…
Happy Birthday to Illini infielder Michael Hurwitz! He has a lot to celebrate today as last night he hit two homeruns and drove in five runs for the Springfield Sliders. Unfortunately, it was in a losing cause as the Sliders lost 15-8 to Hannibal. In the same game, Illini David…
Former Illini shortstop Josh Parr had a fantastic game last night in Class A ball. Parr (left) showed his little brothers, Justin and Jordan how it’s done in the minors when he rapped out four hits for the South Bend Silver Hawks in their 11-6 victory over the Drayton Dragons.…
Fightingillini.com has a pretty comprehensive update on how our players are doing in their various 2011 summer leagues. Rather than summarize it all up, I’ll just link to it and you can read it for yourself. You can find it at the Fighting Illini baseball site. As for my summer,…
Brandon Hohl had a big game on Friday night for his Wisconsin Rapids Rafters. He hit two homers with three rbis. The Rafters won 11-2 keyed by Hohl’s performance. Here is the box score.