Wow! It was almost as if the #1 LSU Tigers offense was punishing the Illini for embarrassing them for Friday’s 3-1 win. In a game that was a polar opposite of that contest, LSU defeated the Illini today in a 22-10 slugfest at the Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge,…
Willie Argo (Assumption Davenport, IA) has just been named Male High School Athlete of the Year by the second major Iowa paper. Argo is a member of the University of Illinois baseball recruiting class of 2008. The Des Moines Register agreed with the Quad City Times (yay, my newspaper when…
It looks like Willie Argo who was picked in the 49th round will pitch for Illinois in 2009. The Assumption High School (Davenport, IA) product says that “it’s about 100 percent” that he’ll be wearing the orange and blues. Good news for us Illini fans. No doubt though, Argo will…
A quiet news week on the Illini front since they weren’t able to find anyone to play ball with last weekend due to the weather in Dallas. That said, there are a couple tidbits worth passing along. Assumption (Davenport, IA) High School star Willie Argo seems to be ready to…