Celebration after Saturday’s win! Illinois got the job done this weekend! A three-game sweep is what the team needed against the Penn State Nittany Lions and that’s what they got. With an 8-6 win on Saturday and a comeback 5-4 victory on Sunday, the Illini improve their conference record…
The Illini seemed to have the the much-anticipated Baylor series quite in hand as they won both games on Saturday sweeping the Bears for the weekend. That puts Illinois at 10-4 for the season and at the top of the Big Ten conference. Since the first weekend of the season…
The Fighting Illini never looked back from yesterday’s win as they never trailed either of their two opponents today at the UTA/Hilton Invitational in Arlington, Texas. They got solid performances from both freshman Nick Blackburn and Kevin Johnson as they defeated the Houston Baptist Huskies and the Texas-Arlington Mavericks. Thomas…
Well, it was big loss on Sunday as Illinois dropped their third loss against Penn State 3-2 despite a fine effort by starting pitcher Drasen Johnson. Johnson (left) spread out five hits in 5 1/3 innings and only gave up one run. After scoring the first run of the game…
With today’s 3-2 victory against Northwestern, Illinois completed a three-game sweep of the Wildcats. Once again, Matt Milroy was fantastic in relief. He pitched 6 2/3 innings of shutout ball and struck out eleven batters and allowed just two hits. Northwestern actually got off to a good start today getting…
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…
Illinois and starting pitcher Bryan Roberts took care of business today as they shut out Northwestern Wildcats 9-0 at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston. With help from Michigan who defeated Ohio State, they are now in sole possession of first place in the Big Ten conference. Roberts was lights out…
Behind a solid performance by starter Bryan Roberts and a relentless oflense, Illinois took the third game at Penn State today 9-2. With the win, the Illini sweeps the Nittany Lions for the weekend and are now tied for first place in the Big Ten! STANDINGS (as of Apr 26,…
Snowy day We got started early today at 11am because of the re-scheduled game from yesterday’s rained out affair. So today instead of rain, we got snow. Granted it wasn’t a blizzard or anything but dang, it was cold. Towards the end of Game One, the snow stopped. The sun…
Casey McMurray takes one for the team on Friday The 11-2 Illini jumped two spots in the Collegiate Baseball poll to #19 after their four game sweep last weekend over University of Akron Zips. Indeed, the only time the Zips showed real life over the weekend was when the pressure…