This weekend, undefeated Illinois (3-0) travels to Boca Raton, Florida to take on Florida Atlantic Owls (3-1). FAU just came off a midweek loss against tough Miami but Illinois and Coach Dan Hartleb hope to keep their wins comin’. Teamwork is key to winning baseball games. These are the players…
Three games. Three wins. Only five runs given up. Keep this up and we’ll be buying tickets for Omaha soon enough. Illinois Baseball got off to a stellar 2019 season start with a three-game sweep this past weekend. That included a big win over host #20 Wake Forest. Pitching was…
This Friday is Opening Day! The Illini will take on Georgetown at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Last year’s team was young, no doubt about it. With one more year under their belt, they have a year’s worth of experience and the team is better off for it. While…
Today, it was announced that Illinois baseball was picked as the third best team in the Big Ten by conference coaches bested only by Minnesota and Michigan. From FightingIllini.com, here is how the top teams fared in the coaches poll: 2019 Big Ten Preseason Poll (top six teams and ties)1.…
Illinois Baseball can boast two freshman who are named to Baseball America’s Top 50 Freshman list. Let’s take a look at them. C Jacob Campbell At #25, Jacob Campbell is the top frosh in the Big Ten and the second in the country. Campbell hails from Janesville, WI and was…
The temps are dipping into the single digits here in Champaign-Urbana and it doesn’t look like there is much relief in the near future. That’s not preventing the Illinois baseball team from getting some practice in, though. They are enjoying the relative warmth of the Irwin Practice Facility to get…
The Illinois Baseball community continues to amaze me. The annual Illinois Baseball Hot Stove Banquet co-sponsored by the Dugout Club, was scheduled for last Saturday night. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if attendance would be high. We had a nasty winter storm roll in on Saturday and roads were…
Saturday night is Illinois baseball’s annual Hot Stove banquet officially kicking off the 2019 season. And yes, there actually is a hot stove. It is lit at the beginning of the banquet. Rumor has it that the organizers of the banquet have to get special permission from the City Fire…
It’s exciting to see college baseball news ramping up. It’s even more exciting to see Illinois baseball making the headlines. Illinois fans knew that we had had good team going into the 2019 season. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper agrees. They released their preseason Top 40 rankings yesterday and the Illini are…
You know we’re getting close to opening day when college baseball pundits begin weighing in on who’s hot. It should be no surprise that Illini second baseman Michael Massey is being singled out as one of top players of the country. The Collegiate Baseball Newspaper named Massey to their pre-season…