Illinois Baseball Report

Former Illini pitcher Tanner Roark is making his way up the ladder in the minors.  He was just promoted to Double-A and is now playing for the Frisco Roughriders in the Texas League. He made his debut last night and had a little trouble but nothing awful allowing a run in 2/3 inning in a [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 11th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

It’s opening day for the Illini which means they’re someplace warm, in this case, Clearwater, Florida.  What’s different this year is that tonight, they are opening up against a Big Ten team, Iowa.  My guess?  They’re making up for lost time.  They didn’t play the Hawkeyes all last year. Lars Davis and Tanner Roark after [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on February 20th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Some news regarding Illini draftees: It came out today that Illinois CF Kyle Hudson who went early, the fourth round, has reached a contract agreement with the Baltimore Orioles.  He plans to play for their Class A team in Aberdeen, MD by next week. Illini hurler Scott Shaw, drafted by the New York Mets in [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 12th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Roark (right) will be sitting out 2008 Some bad news for the Illini baseball team. Tanner Roark, who led the team in wins last year, won’t be playing this spring because of “academic reasons”. Roark was integral in last year’s season for Illinois. He was a second team All Big Ten selection and led (or [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on February 2nd, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Four University of Illinois players were named to All-Big Ten teams on Tuesday, Lars Davis and Tanner Roark Catcher Lars Davis was named first-team All Big Ten. That was a no-brainer given that he was also Big Ten Player of the Year. I wrote a little about his accomplishments a couple days ago. It does [...]

Filed under: Awards on May 26th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Tonight’s game against the Spartans of Michigan State had it all. You name it… an injury, questionable umpiring, sibling rivalry, a comeback by the Illini. What a game! Coach Hartleb passed by where I was twenty minutes before the game. I asked him, “Are you ready?” “I’m ready but that doesn’t matter.” Well, it looked [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 18th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

It wasn’t pretty but the Illini beat Indiana in this weekend’s opener. Illinois had six errors in the game. Starter Tanner Roark continued his dominance during first games against Big Ten teams as he got the win in 7 2/3 innings. He gave up 5 runs but only 2 were earned. After giving up a [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 11th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Kyle Hudson Illini Kyle Hudson, who has the dual role of centerfielder for the baseball team in the spring and wide receiver for the football team in the fall (and he does very well at both) was featured in Doug Kroll’s column at CSTV’s web site. By the way, Illinois fell to Michigan 4-3 today [...]

Filed under: Media on May 4th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

The University of Illinois hosted the Gophers of Minnesota last weekend. Once again, the Illini won the opener. The rest of the series… eh, not so much. The Gophers took three of the four games. Friday’s starting pitcher Tanner Roark deserves some credit as he is 4-0 in conference play. For the season, Roark is [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 30th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »