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…
Junior Brandon Wikoff is an obvious choice by teams next week when MLB has their First-Year Player Draft. I think we all knew that. But the News-Gazette’s Jeff Huth has a posting on IlliniHQ.com on other Illini players and recruits (other than Brandon Wikoff) who also might get the call…
I didn’t make it out to Illinois Field tonight but had to be content with listening to the game on the radio. I picked it up when Illinois was up 4-0. Unfortunately, that was all the scoring they would do. Brandon Wikoff’s 3 hits and a solid start from Billy…