Illinois Baseball Report

Illinois came into last weekend’s series against Purdue tied for third and winning their last three Big Ten series.  After losing Friday’s game in low scoring fashion, 3-1, it looked like they had their work cut out for them the rest of the weekend.  The Orange and Blue proved they were up for the challenge [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 16th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

I really hope you came to the park last night.  If you missed Illinois’ exciting 13-9 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes, you missed, in my guess, one of the best games of past few years.  It ranks up their with our win against the same Ohio State team two years ago and even the [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on May 7th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Corey Kimes is the scheduled Sunday starter this weekend Illinois travels to Ann Arbor this weekend to play Michigan.  One note before I go on… the Friday game has been moved up to 3:05pm because of weather. Illinois’ offense will need to find their bats as they are currently haven’t scored a run in 16 [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on April 14th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Illinois’ offense never got going as they got shut out by the SIU Salukis Wednesday night 3-0.  The good guys only managed five hits for the game. Luke Joyce and the rest of the bullpen kept SIU scoreless for 4 plus innings Starter John Anderson had a rough fourth inning but in all he only [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 13th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Here’s the IlliniHQ.com’s summary from last night’s win against Iowa entitled ‘Shelton delivers’.  I get personal satisfaction from that because Thomas Shelton is a student in the department where I work.  Keep it up, Thomas! IlliniHQ also had an accompanying ‘just-the-facts’ article.  By the way, it’s official, Josh Parr injured is knee during practice which [...]

Filed under: Media on April 9th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

With a Willie Argo triple and a Josh Parr rbi single, the Illini once again won in the ninth inning, this time against Penn State 7-6 in the Big Ten opener on Friday night. This extends the Illini’s winning streak to five games and they are now breaching the .500 mark at 9-10. Penn State [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on April 2nd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

It seems like this Friday can’t come soon enough.  All these weeks of following the Illinois baseball team as they play in strange and far away places will soon come to an end as we get to see the good guys on the green grass… *ahem* field turf of Illinois Field here in Champaign, Illinois.  [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on March 23rd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

What a way to end a road trip!  Not only did the Illinois baseball team win their last two ballgames but newcomer Thomas Lindauer won co-freshman of the week honors from the Big Ten. After defeating St Louis on Saturday, I’m sure Illinois felt extra motivated to win Sunday’s game against Southern Illinois University.  Coming [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on March 23rd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

It was the second day of the Orange and Blue World Series at Illinois Field and there was an even bigger crowd of fans albeit mostly parents and family members. I even brought a friend (but managed to sneak a few photos anyways). Last year’s Friday starter Will Strack got the Orange team going.   [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on October 5th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

I wandered in to see how the clubhouse addition was coming along and then watched some practice, too.  Here are some photos.  You see Brandon Hohl at his familiar thirdbase position at the top.    Coach Westray imparting some sage advice to some of the pitchers.   The outfielders were shagging some fly balls with [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on September 21st, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »