Will senior Willie Argo help his team to victory in 2012? As I say before every opening series, now it’s gets real. However in 2012, it REALLY gets real. With the announced 2012 schedule which is one of the toughest the Illinois baseball team has seen in a while,…
Fightingillini.com posted the second in their series of 2012 previews yesterday. This time around, they’re looking at the position players. Don’t miss the accompanying interview video of Coach Snider. Who among the position players are no longer on the team? Well in short, Adam Davis, Pete Cappetta, Casey McMurray, Matt…
Fightingillini.com is now just beginning to coming out with their annual previews of the baseball program. Part 1 was just posted today on pitching. It will be a very different pitching staff than what we saw go to Regionals in 2011. Overall, the team lost nine seniors plus three more…
I wouldn’t say the Illini are going north this weekend. They’re just not travelling as far south. Bowling Green, Kentucky is their destination and they will be facing off against the Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky University. WKU (6-5) seems to be a pretty tough team both offensively and on the…
It’s down to Florida for the third weekend in a row for the Illini baseball team. This time, they are participating in the Bright House Invitational in Deland, Florida. Stetson University are the gracious hosts. FightingIllini.com beat me to the punch with their weekend preview. It looks like the Johnson-Anderson-Kimes…
Tonight, the University of Illinois baseball team (1-2) will take on Florida Gulf Coast University (2-2) at Fort Myers. It will be the first in a three game series. FightingIllini.com has their weekend preview up. We’re looking at the same starters from last weekend: Johnson, Anderson and Kimes. The interview…
Josh Parr and Casey McMurray combined for 8 rbis at the Big East/Big Ten Challenge Tournament play has that added competitive tension but this weekend, Illinois (1-2) gets to play an honest-to-goodness three game series. This weekend’s opponent is Florida Gulf Coast University (2-2) and they’ll be playing in warm…
Fightingillini.com has their weekend preview up now. This week’s preview includes a bonus video of an interview of Willie Argo just before getting on the team bus before heading down to Florida. Willie looks spiffy wearing a red orange tie (you know that’s coming off as soon as he’s on…
Casey McMurray led the Illini in hitting (.348) and homeruns (6) in 2010 The Illinois baseball players have been practicing for a few weeks now this year but this weekend, it’s for real. On Friday, the Big East/Big Ten Challenge tournament commences. For Illinois’ part, they will be taking…
With temperatures at single digits, it’s hard to think of baseball but college baseball is less than two weeks away. Thank goodness the Illini have found warmer places to play… places such as Clearwater, Florida where the Big East/Big Ten Challenge will take place. The Fighting Illini website has posted…