In their second straight game against Michigan State, the University of Illinois Fighting Illini baseball team clinched their first Big Ten Tournament championship since 2000 by defeating the Spartans 9-1. Starting pitcher Corey Kimes threw a career high 9 innings and seven strikeouts and seemed to have the Spartans fooled. …
Maybe it’s a bit of schadenfreude on my part but sometimes I like to read recaps on Illinois victories that were posted in newspapers in the enemy’s territory. Here’s the write-up on last night’s game in the Detroit Press. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with good ol’ friendly Illini HQ…
No comeback today. No dramatic walk-offs in the ninth inning. Not even a stray cat made its way onto the field tonight. The Illini just cruised to a victory over their co-conference title holders Michigan State in the Big Ten Baseball Tournament by the score of 4-1. We can thank…
Ho hum… another walk-off win for the Illini. What else is new? Hehe, I can’t pull that complacent shtick off, I am psyched as all get out. Maybe I got worried a bit watching the Illinois-Ohio State game on my friend’s wide screen TV in his basement but I’ll tell…
Scott Powers of ESPN Chicago has a nice piece on Pete Cappetta and his comeback in the second half. Definitely check it out. The Chicago Tribune interviewed walk-off hero Matt Dittman The Daily Illini has a couple of interesting articles. One on the missing trophy (stupid policy in my opinion)…
Ohio State and Purdue came out winners in the first day of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament. The Buckeyes eked out a win over Minnesota 5-3 and Purdue came back to score seven runs and won 7-2 over Penn State. That sets the schedule for Thursday. In the ‘loser’s bracket’,…
Josh Parr: All-Big Ten Second Team Yesterday, seven Illinois baseball players were honored with All-Big Ten awards. While the Big Ten championship team was shut out of the All-Big Ten First team, Adam Davis, Pete Cappetta and Josh Parr were placed on the Second Team and Casey McMurray and Wes…
Pete Cappetta: Tough against the Big Ten I was chatting over Facebook with a friend who is MSU baseball fan. He says “I was taught it is nice to share. Congrats to both teams, and maybe we will settle this on the field at the tournament.”. It is truly a…
I was going through my photos last night and found these shots of the Illinois Baseball team from the 2005 season, the last time they were Big Ten Champions. I don’t even think some of them are posted in the photo gallery (I should take care of that when I…
Matt Dittman got the Big Ten Player of the Week award this week. He better have after his walk-off performance on Saturday. But Ditt actually had a great weekend independent of his walk-off homerun. That homerun was his second of the series and for the series, he hit .600. He…