Now, that Illinois win was just a little TOO interesting. With a 15-3 lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning, the Northwestern Wildcats rallied for nine runs to make it close. Fortunately, Will Strack came in and shut the door on the ‘Cats, pitching a perfect ninth. The…
Josh Parr, Corey Kimes and Mike Giller. Happy Times For the second weekend in a row, the Illini take to the road facing a Big Ten team. They’re facing our neighbor to the north, the Northwestern Wildcats in Evanston, Illinois. No doubt we’ll have a sizable visitor section there this…
Despite scoring five runs in the last two innings, the Illini lost to the St Louis Billikens in St Louis tonight. This in spite of efforts of Joe Bonadonna, Casey McMurray, Dom Altobelli and Josh Parr who had two hit each in the 11-10 heartbreaker. This was third mid-week, non-conference…
From my standpoint, Illinois’ game against SIU at Rent One Park in Marion, Illinois looked like a game of big innings. Unfortunately, the Salukis had one more of them than the Illini did. Southern had 5-0 lead thanks to a four run fourth inning when Blake Fairchild came on and…
Once again, Michigan scored first but Illinois came back to win another one from Wolverines to take the series from UM in Ann Arbor. Michigan scored two in the first but Illinois rallied to put three on the board in the second inning thanks to consecutive singles by Aaron Johnson…
The difference was night and day for the Illini. Compared to Friday night’s game against the Indiana, our pitchers pitched well, we had good defense and we kept Josh Phegley at bay (1 for 9, 1 rbi, 1 run). Ben Reeser was one strike from a shutout Unfortunately, we only…
Boy, that was a close one! Josh Parr drove in the winning run in the 10th inning Down 4-1, Illinois pulled ahead in the fifth by a run only to lose the lead in the next inning. The Illini quickly tied it up and that’s where it stood till the…
Congrats to Will Strack. With his complete game shutout in the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader, Strack received the Big Ten Pitcher of the Week award. Strack allowed just four hits and a walk in Illinois’ win which completed their weekend sweep of the Michigan Spartans. He is the second…
Snowy day We got started early today at 11am because of the re-scheduled game from yesterday’s rained out affair. So today instead of rain, we got snow. Granted it wasn’t a blizzard or anything but dang, it was cold. Towards the end of Game One, the snow stopped. The sun…
Casey McMurray takes one for the team on Friday The 11-2 Illini jumped two spots in the Collegiate Baseball poll to #19 after their four game sweep last weekend over University of Akron Zips. Indeed, the only time the Zips showed real life over the weekend was when the pressure…