Don’t look now but Illinois is in first place in the Big Ten Baseball. The current standings: Big Ten Overall Team Record Pct. Record Pct. Illinois 0-0 .000 7-4 .636 Indiana 0-0 .000 6-2 .750 Ohio State 0-0 .000 6-4 .600 Minnesota 0-0 .000 6-5 .545 Michigan 0-0 .000 5-5…
With Illinois’ good showing at the Keith LeClair Classic, I thought we might have seen a mention of one of our players in the Big Ten weekly awards (Nick Blackburn for Freshman of the Week, anyone?). Alas, Ohio State had three legit contenders and swept the awards: Player: Aaron Gretz,…
Josh Ferry Will Krug One week after Brandon Hohl and Justin Parr received similar honors, we hear that two more Illini were named to their respective summer league’s All-Star team. This time it was Will Krug and Josh Ferry. Both are current sophomores and both were named to the Chicago…
Brandon Hohl Justin Parr A few congrats are in order. The Northwoods League just issued a few post-season awards and a few Illini were mentioned. First, among their 2012 ‘Finest in the Field’ honorees was thirdbaseman Brandon Hohl who played for Wisconsin Rapids this summer. His .973 fielding percentage was…
Fightingillini.com has just posted a solid summary of this year’s summer league action by the Illini. Big congrats go out to Will Krug who was chosen to the National Amateur Baseball Federation College World Series All-Tournament team after his performance with the Crystal Lake Cardinals. For the summer, he hit…
Congrats to the Illinois Baseball program on earning the NCAA Public Recognition Award! From fightingillini.com: Five University of Illinois athletic teams earned the NCAA Public Recognition Award based on their most recent multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR), the NCAA announced Thursday…. Illinois’ men’s cross country, women’s golf and women’s gymnastics…
I don’t think anyone who remembers the Shawn Roof era of Illini baseball will be too surprised by this. But it is a testament to the former Illinois shortstop’s infectious personality. Essentially, Roof’s former minor league team, the Erie SeaWolves are marketing his return to Erie, as an opponent, to…
Willie Argo: First Team All-Big Ten Three Illini baseball players received All-Big Ten honors today including outfielder Willie Argo who was named to the first team All-Big Ten team. In addition to Argo, shortstop Thomas Lindauer and outfielder Justin Parr were named third team All-Big Ten team. Catcher Alex Lincoln…
I’m sure we Illini baseball fans are not given in to schadenfreude. If we were, however, we would pleased to know that because of Illinois’ 9-4 defeat of St John’s on Sunday, the Red Storm have been knocked out of the national rankings. But I’m sure we don’t have that…
Justin Parr: #1 in conference batting average for 2011 The local paper, the News-Gazette, just posted a list of the top 100 Illini athletes according to sportswriter Jeff Huth. Illini baseball got their due getting eight players mentioned on the list. #23 Justin Parr #38 Charlie Tilson #44 Brandon Hohl…