Illinois Baseball finished strong at the Keith LeClair Classic in Greenville, North Carolina this weekend. After an initial loss to the East Carolina Pirates and a win versus the Ohio Bobcats the next day, they followed that up with two more wins to close out the tournament against the New…
With much hesitation, I changed the banner of IBR. I really liked the photo that was up there before (shown above). It wasn’t the sharpest image but boy, there was a lot of action and the expression on every guy’s face face is unique and priceless. And what’s with Corey…
John Kravetz: team leading 8 wins Illinois won their second crucial game in a row against the Minnesota Golden Gophers 3-2 on Friday night behind the formidable pitching of starter John Kravetz. With the win, the Illini (11-12) jumped over Minnesota (10-13) in the standings. With some help from the…
First, a sincere congratulations to the Boilermaker Nation. With Purdue’s win over Michigan, they have clinched at the least, a share of the 2012 Big Ten Championship. It will be their first such championship since 1909. As for the Illini, their tournament continue to dwindle with their second loss against…
Willie Argo is batting .487 with 12 rbis against Penn State Illinois is on the road for the last time for the regular season this weekend as they travel to Penn State to face the Nittany Lions. It’s another crucial series as the Lions (10-8) are only one game ahead…
Milroy: 3 IP, 0 hits, 4 Ks… and a loss Those fans who went to both Friday’s and Saturday’s game saw a very different game today. Unfortunately, the ultimate result was the same as Michigan State eked out a win in extras in 10 innings by the score of 6-5.…
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…
Thomas Shelton hopes to extend his five game hitting streak this weekend The University of Illinois baseball team hope to continue to climb the Big Ten standings this weekend as they take on the Northwestern Wildcats. This year’s intrastate series will be played at Rocky Miller Park in Evanston. The…
Thomas Lindauer gets back to first safely No weather concerns today. No light outage dramatics either. Just a nice simple win fueled by good pitching and plenty of offense. Illinois defeated Ohio State Saturday in a little comeback style 8-3. Kravetz earns his sixth win today Illinois did draw first…
As some of you know, I was in town for Friday’s game but had to leave town and wasn’t able to attend Saturday’s or Sunday’s events. Heh, what events they were! Let it be known I did follow each game though. Thank goodness for Gametracker. There’s something about a baseball…