For the second weekend in a row, we had beautiful weather for baseball all three days. After a marathon 15-inning 1-0 win by Illinois (20-17, 6-6 Big Ten) on Friday night featuring a historical performance by Cody Sedlock, Ohio State (25-14-1, 5-7 Big Ten) came back to win on Saturday. …
Cody Sedlock leads the B1G with 70 strikeouts After five straight non-conference wins, Illinois (18-16, 4-5 Big Ten) is ready to bring on the Big Ten conference again. This weekend, they will host rival Ohio State Buckeyes (24-18-1, 4-5 Big Ten) at Illinois Field. Both teams come into the weekend…
Trent Hammond gets a high five as he scores on Sunday Wow! What a beautiful sunny weekend! It was perfect weather for baseball all three days and Illinois took advantage by sweeping the Saint Louis Billikens all three games. With the sweep. Illinois now puts themselves above .500 with a…
Adam Walton gets back to first base safely in Tuesday’s game against ISU It’s the first home series in three weekends for the Illini baseball team. Illinois (14-16, 4-5 Big Ten) will be playing a non-conference series against the Saint Louis Billikens (16-18, 7-2 Atlantic 10) who now claim first…
Doran Turchin’s grand slam on Saturday helped defeat Iowa Despite outscoring the Iowa Hawkeyes by a 16-12 margin this weekend, Illinois (13-16, 4-5 Big Ten) managed just one win in their three game series against Iowa (14-15, 5-4 Big Ten). The Illini sandwiched their highest scoring game of the year…
The Orange Team gets bragging rights for a year. Hurwitz hit a 9th inning grand slam in Game 2 Congrats to the Orange team who battled back from an 0-1 deficit to win the last two games. Last night with the help of a Michael Hurwitz grand slam, they defeated…
Casey Fletcher scores on Ryne Roper’s triple in the third inning If we had that one more inning, I just know the Illini would have come back from their 11-3 deficit. Well, maybe. With one pitch thrown in the ninth inning of Sunday’s game, the men in blue called the…
Will Krug now batting .329 with 15 stolen bases On Sunday, Illinois completed a sweep at Penn State (17-19, 5-6 Big Ten) behind the pitching of Ryan Castellanos. Penn State had the lead in each of the three games this weekend and two of the games were truly comeback efforts…
Will Krug’s 3 for 5 performance wasn’t enough to overcome Michigan’s 17 runs Before today, Illinois hurlers hadn’t given up a run for 25 innings. As I approached Illinois Field, I knew that win or lose, that streak wasn’t going to last. The winds were blowing straight out to centerfield. …
John Kravetz is back in the rotation this week Illinois Baseball makes its first road trip to a Big Ten school this weekend as they head up I-57 to Evanston to play the Northwestern Wildcats. The Illini hope to keep the momentum going. They are coming off a 7-2 home…