Illinois baseball is starting out the year right. D1baseball.com has named Coach Dan Hartleb the Big Ten Coach of the Decade! According to D1Baseball.com’s All Decade award-laden post: There’s plenty of competition for this honor. Former Indiana coach Tracy Smith has a good argument but only coached half the decade…
C-U fans, this is your last chance to see the 2019 Illini baseball team in action! This weekend is the last home series at Illinois Field as the Illini (31-16, 10-8 Big Ten) host the Purdue Boilermakers (19-28, 7-10 Big Ten) for a three-game series. The Illini who are in…
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…
This is it local Illinois baseball fans! If you don’t get out to Illinois Field in the next three days, you will have to travel to Omaha to see the Orange and Blue. This is an “early” weekend as the series begins on Thursday and ends on Saturday. Illinois…
In two days, Illinois faces Nebraska for the last regular season series of 2018. To get us all geared up for the series, enjoy a few of Bren Spillane’s 20 homeruns from this year.
Last weekend, Illinois baseball won their first series in Ann Arbor in fifteen years! They didn’t waste time scoring ten runs on Friday then scoring another ten on Saturday. On Sunday, the Illini scored two in the top in the ninth to force an extra inning game but couldn’t…
At this point in the season, every game counts. Illinois travels to Ann Arbor this weekend to play Michigan who is tied for the top spot in the standings in the Big Ten. It will be a three-game series and with just one more series left after this one,…
Illinois’ weekend was almost like the name “Ohio”. Illinois high point was in the middle but there wasn’t much on the edges. Last weekend, there great weather and lots of fans at Illinois Field. There was even free food and a beer tent on Friday night. Unfortunately, things didn’t…
Things started out right against a tough #15 Indiana team but as the weekend wore on, things didn’t go Illinois’ way. The Illini (25-14, 10-5 Big Ten) won a tight 2-1 game on Friday but Indiana won both Saturday’s and Sunday’s games. With the series loss, Illinois drops to fourth…