Saturday night is Illinois baseball’s annual Hot Stove banquet officially kicking off the 2019 season. And yes, there actually is a hot stove. It is lit at the beginning of the banquet. Rumor has it that the organizers of the banquet have to get special permission from the City Fire…
It’s exciting to see college baseball news ramping up. It’s even more exciting to see Illinois baseball making the headlines. Illinois fans knew that we had had good team going into the 2019 season. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper agrees. They released their preseason Top 40 rankings yesterday and the Illini are…
You know we’re getting close to opening day when college baseball pundits begin weighing in on who’s hot. It should be no surprise that Illini second baseman Michael Massey is being singled out as one of top players of the country. The Collegiate Baseball Newspaper named Massey to their pre-season…
Illinois Baseball announced this week that the updated 2019 Illinois Baseball Record Book has been released! I always enjoy going through the Record Book and believe me, it takes a while. There is a lot of info packed in it. It’s a whopping 138 pages long! If it’s not in…
By the year 2021, the Illinois Field complex will look a lot different and we will have Susie Atkins to thank for that. With a $3 million donation earmarked for a new training facility, Illinois Baseball will have improved their overall program dramatically. According to FightingIllini.com, Susie Atkins is happy…
After dominating the Blue and Gray teams on Wednesday and Thursday, it looked like the Orange team might end the 2018 Orange and Blue World Series with a loss. That was not the case, as Kellen Sarver drove in two key runs with a base hit for a comeback win…
Saturday, Illinois battled to a 5-5 tie with the Indiana State Sycamores for a 14 inning game. Like last Wednesday’s game against EIU, both coaches agreed to the 14 innings beforehand as the teams want the experience of competitive action. Fans got to see a lot of Illini pitchers as…
Illinois baseball defeated the Eastern Illinois Panthers 13-12 on Wednesday night in a marathon 14-inning affair. It wasn’t technically an extra-inning game; Illinois had the lead 8-7 after nine regulation innings. Coach Dan Hartleb and EIU head coach Jason Anderson who was a star Illini pitcher in his college days,…
The Fall Semester at the University of Illinois is in full swing now. As an IT professional at the College of the Fine and Applied Arts, I know that all too well. Students are on campus and classes are in session . One thing about Fall is relatively new… baseball!…
This is it local Illinois baseball fans! If you don’t get out to Illinois Field in the next three days, you will have to travel to Omaha to see the Orange and Blue. This is an “early” weekend as the series begins on Thursday and ends on Saturday. Illinois…