February 14th is Valentine’s Day. What better way to spend it with your loved one than to follow your favorite baseball team during their season opener? This weekend, Illinois will be taking on Milwaukee, Seton Hall and Wake Forest. It’s been a long off-season and we’re all ready for some…
Losing both of their Big Ten Tournament games and their first two Oxford Regional games, the 2019 season ended with a whimper for the normally tough Illini baseball team. For some players, there is still exciting times ahead this year. The MLB Draft starts tonight! Here is the draft schedule…
Illinois took on ranked Indiana this past weekend and with two great pitching performances by Andy Fisher and Ty Weber, they find themselves back in the thick of things. Illinois won two of three games, keeping the Hoosiers to just one run for the first two games. As a result…
The past few weeks have a been a bit of a roller coaster ride for Illinois baseball. Two weeks ago, Illinois was a ranked team and it seems like they couldn’t be beat. Then Iowa took them for three games. Illinois invited nationally ranked Coastal Carolina for two midweek games…
It’s time for Big Ten baseball! This weekend, Illinois travels to Iowa City for a three-game set against the Iowa Hawkeyes. For Illinois, it will be the Big Ten opener. Iowa is still looking for its first conference win after Indiana swept them last weekend. Speaking of sweeps, Illinois is…
In what was billed as a match-up between two very tough Illinois teams, the series between Illinois and Illinois State was incredibly one-sided. This past weekend, at Illinois Field, the Illinois (17-4) won all three games versus Illinois State (13-9) for their fifth weekend sweep of 2019. Illinois outscored the…
This weekend, the #23 Illini will take on the Illinois State Redbirds (13-6) in the I-74 match-up. There will be a three-game series between the two teams who have both experienced success in the 2019 season. Illinois will be looking to sweep their opponent for the fifth time in the…
In their home opening series, Illinois baseball got down to business this past weekend. Winning their fourth weekend sweep in five weekend against the Southern Illinois Salukis (10-8), the 2019 Illinois team is off their best start in 30 years. Illinois won two hard played one-run games in a doubleheader…
I like Illinois Baseball so much that I think Champaign-Urbana should make the home opener an official city holiday. Unfortunately, this year, we will have to wait just one more day to watch baseball at Illinois Field. FightingIllini.com announced today that Illinois baseball’s series against Southern Illinois will open with…
Illinois hopes to regroup after a less-than-stellar weekend in South Carolina. Traveling to the Mountain Time Zone, they visit Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. They have a three-game series versus the Lopes starting Friday. The Illini started out the season 6-0 but ran into a roadblock last weekend losing…