As some of you know, I was in town for Friday’s game but had to leave town and wasn’t able to attend Saturday’s or Sunday’s events. Heh, what events they were! Let it be known I did follow each game though. Thank goodness for Gametracker. There’s something about a baseball…
Bill Charvat ropes a double in the ninth inning It was a rematch with the Bradley Braves tonight and coincidentally the score was the same as last week’s game. Unfortunately, the victor was not. Bradley came out on top, 6-3. When I arrived to the park from work around the…
John Kravetz rebounds from last weekend and gets his fourth win Sunday John Kravetz allowed just three hits in seven innings in Sunday’s game against Mississippi Valley State giving him his fourth win of the year. That completed a sweep of the Delta Devils now putting the Illini at 15-10…
Jordan Parr hustles into third as he triples in the first inning It was more of the same Saturday as the Illini pounded the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils 12-4 at Illinois Field. Once again, a big inning helped as the six-run second pretty much put the game away. By…
Shortstop Thomas Lindauer makes the play at first Illinois baseball team came home to a crowd of 827 baseball fans and did everything they could to not disappoint. Hosting the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils, they succeeded as they outslugged the opposition 15-6 behind the solid pitching of Kevin Johnson. …
We’ll just forget the last three games. Tonight was a different night. Illinois broke their three game losing streak Wednesday night in Peoria against the Bradley Braves winning a no-nonsense 6-3 game. Nick Chmielewski pitched six solid innings for the win. The win was probably a happy one for the…
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…
A couple of videos to link to this week. The first two come to us from Illini Productions’ YouTube Channel. Here’s Brandon Hohl’s postgame interview after Sunday’s game when he hit two homeruns and drove in six runs against SIU. That same day, Josh Ferry won his first college…
Wow! Lots of big stuff happened yesterday in Illinois baseball. They did manage to get shutout by one the most struggling teams they’ve faced this year in Northern Illinois 3-0. But on the other hand, they came back and walloped SIU 13-5. Some of the big stories of the…
Finally, we get to see some Illinois baseball on Illinois soil… against other Illinois opponents. This weekend sees the University of Illinois baseball team in a four game set. They’ll play two games each against the tough Southern Illinois Salukis and the slumping Northern Illinois Huskies. For the first time,…