I’m sure we Illini baseball fans are not given in to schadenfreude. If we were, however, we would pleased to know that because of Illinois’ 9-4 defeat of St John’s on Sunday, the Red Storm have been knocked out of the national rankings.
But I’m sure we don’t have that kind of nasty attitude.
The Kravetz’ have better make some room on their mantle. Illini freshman pitcher John Kravetz (left) keeps racking up the awards thanks to his 6 2/3 innings shutout ball against St John’s. In addition to the Big Ten Co-Freshman Player of the Week award, Kravetz was recognized with a College Baseball 360 Primetime Pitcher of the Week honor.
Not only that, he was also named College Baseball Insider’s Central Region’s Pitcher of the Week.
Congrats, John!
If you haven’t seen it already, the News-Gazette has a photo gallery of the players for the Illini Baseball Media Day 2012.
N-G photographer John Dixon did a fine job. Don’t miss the shot of Nick Chmielewski juggling baseballs.
Finally, the weather was nice enough today so the boys got to practice outside. Brandon Hohl took time out to talk to the cameras, though.