Not surprisingly, Riley Gowens earned the Big Ten Pitcher of the Week award this week. Based on his seven-inning, no-hit performance on Sunday, Gowens’ honor is the first weekly honor for an Illini player in 2021. This award comes on top of his Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Player of the…
What a week for Riley Gowens! On Sunday, he combined with Ryan O’Hara and Cole Kirschsieper for a historic no-hitter at Purdue. Pitching seven innings, he was named as one of Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Players of the Week. Here is the official announcement from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. Libertyville native…
Wow! What a weekend! A no-hitter to clinch a a sweep! One weekend, after losing two games against Purdue, the Illini swept the Boilermakers three games culminating with a historic no-hitter on Sunday. Illinois starting pitching was strong with Andrew Hoffmann and Nate Lavender both getting victories. Ironically, Riley Gowens…
Tough Sunday loss for Andrew Mamlic I’m sure none of the Illini baseball players and certainly not Coach Hartleb could have seen a 1-3 weekend coming. After a solid win behind starter Cody Sedlock and 3B Trent Hammond (3 for 3) on Friday, Illinois dropped the next game against the…
2014 seems to be the summer of the no-hitter for Illini pitchers. First it was Andrew Mamlic then Matthew James. Now you can put Illini reliever Tyler Jay on that list. Via Illinois Baseball Twitter, news comes that on Saturday, Jay contributed to a no-hitter for Team USA in the…
It’s a new one on me. Illini infielder Matthew James can pitch. Apparently pretty well. And James (right) pitched REALLY well on Saturday as he threw a complete game no-hitter for the Lexington Snipes against the Joliet Admirals. Behind James’ pitching, the Snipes defeated the Admirals 6-1. The line on…
MSU fan Tom Tomkins posted some Spartan photos from last weekend’s series against Northwestern on his blog, Oak Openings and Observations. It looks like we played MSU at just about the right time. After we swept them, they mightily defeated Central Michigan 20-3. The Roof Brothers (brothers of former Illinois…