John Kravetz and Tyler Jay combine for Illini’s tenth straight On Monday evening, #11 Illinois pitchers John Kravetz and Tyler Jay combined to shut down the Purdue Boilermakers in a pitchers’ duel. The winning run came in the seventh with the help from the Purdue defense when Jason Goldstein scored…
Opening week is so much fun, don’t you think? As the boys are on their way to Cookeville, Tennessee for their first meeting with the Golden Eagles of Tennessee Tech, the official weekend preview has been posted. As noted in my weekend preview, the pitching rotation will include two freshman. …
Reliever Ronnie Muck: 2.16 ERA in 7 appearances This weekend, the University of Illinois baseball team become the first team to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Big Ten conference play. The Huskers play host in Lincoln. The starting pitchers have been announced. Kevin Johnson, John Kravetz will pitch Friday…
This weekend brings the Michigan State Spartans to Champaign, Illinois. Looking at the weather forecast, Saturday may actually be a decent day for baseball… cloudy, maybe but warm and not wet. Friday and Sunday may be a different story, however. I’m still holding hope. I really do hope that we…
The Big Ten Network came out with a nice feature video of the Illinois baseball team’s trip down to Busch Stadium to play Missouri last month. The “new border war”, as Coach Hartleb calls it.
Boy, it sure is fun when the Illini win! In Illini Nation, Craig Lutes is the hero of the day. Yes, he’s in that mob of Illinois players you see in the above photo. Not only is he the one who hit the walk-off homerun against the Northwestern Wildcats today…
Casey McMurray hopes to continue his hot hitting against Penn State this weekend Nothing brings out the best in our players than an honest-to-goodness Big Ten battle. This weekend, we’re getting just that. Coach Robbie Wine brings his 10-13 Penn State Nittany Lions to town to face the 9-9 Illini. …
Today, The Big Ten Network came out with a press release announcing their baseball and softball coverage for 2010. BTN’s baseball and softball coverage will be doubled from last year, they say. They will be producing at least 102 baseball and softball games for either the Big Ten Network telecast…
The Big Ten Network has promised they would provide more games via streaming video this year and it looks like they are coming through. They have announced their online streaming schedule for 2010 and it is quite improved from last year. At this point, Illinois has ten games on their…
Hard to believe that one month from today when students are still in their first week of classes, Illinois is scheduled for their first game of the 2010 season. It’s a HOME game to boot. Some of the cynics out there are wondering if given our Illinois weather, we’ll be…