Illinois Baseball Report

Illinois and starting pitcher Bryan Roberts took care of business today as they shut out Northwestern Wildcats 9-0 at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston.  With help from Michigan who defeated Ohio State, they are now in sole possession of first place in the Big Ten conference. Roberts was lights out as he struck out seven [...]

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Behind a solid performance by starter Bryan Roberts and a relentless oflense, Illinois took the third game at Penn State today 9-2.  With the win, the Illini sweeps the Nittany Lions for the weekend and are now tied for first place in the Big Ten! STANDINGS (as of Apr 26, 2009) Big Ten Overall Team [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 26th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Snowy day We got started early today at 11am because of the re-scheduled game from yesterday’s rained out affair.  So today instead of rain, we got snow.  Granted it wasn’t a blizzard or anything but dang, it was cold.  Towards the end of Game One, the snow stopped.  The sun even popped out for a [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps, Uncategorized on March 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Casey McMurray takes one for the team on Friday The 11-2 Illini jumped two spots in the Collegiate Baseball poll to #19 after their four game sweep last weekend over University of Akron Zips.  Indeed, the only time the Zips showed real life over the weekend was when the pressure was off with a 13-2 [...]

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Hate to sound like a broken record but good starting pitching gave Illinois a victory down in Texas.  This time it was Ben Reeser who gave up just one earned run and six hits in 7 2/3 innings against Texas Arlington in the last game of the Al Ogletree tournament.  Illinois defeated the Mavericks 3-2. [...]

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Yes, that is exactly what the doctor ordered!  After a five straight losses, we needed a couple wins to get us back on track and that’s exactly what we got against Minnesota on Saturday. The first game seemed to be outlet of pent-up burst of energy and frustration (not to mention offense) as the Illini [...]

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Today’s Illini loss to Michigan wasn’t as overwhelming as the two on Saturday but the 7-4 game still hurt as it meant a Wolverine sweep for the weekend.  Illinois went into the weekend in second place and came out of it in fourth. Michigan cruised to a 7-0 start by the fourth inning scoring all [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 13th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It wasn’t even close.  The Michigan Wolverines crushed the Illini by similar scores of 14-4 and 14-6. I didn’t make it out to the games.  Between the cold, wet weather and watching the kids, it just wasn’t in the making.  I had Gametracker going on the computer and the Cubs on WGN-TV (ugh, a 7-1 [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 12th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Yes, there was baseball in Lansing today.  There weather cooperated and the University of Illinois have swept Michigan State in today’s doubleheader.  Because nothing beats being there, here’s the report from Tom Tompkins who is attending the games this weekend.  Once again, thanks to Tom T. for his “eyewitness” reports. Under a cloudless blue sky [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 29th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

What a lovely day it was for a ballgame! Of course it would have been nicer had we not missed the first few innings because I forgot my Go Illini card at home. Reliever Brian Long By the time we got there Brian Long had things well in hand. He was lights out in relief [...]

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