Sunday, March 3, 2013

Illinois College BlueBoys Baseball Split Twinbill Opener

The Illinois College BlueBoys 2013 baseball squad split the season opening doubleheader in Ft. Myers Florida yesterday with Eastern Nazarene College losing game one 5-0 and winning game two 2-1.

Nate Jones
In game one the BlueBoys managed only five hits in the 5-0 loss.  Nick Visconti (Godfrey, Illinois) went four innings, gave up four earned runs and suffered the loss.

Nate Jones (Belleville, Illinois) earned the victory in game two throwing all seven innings allowing one earned run on 6 hits and striking out five.  The BlueBoys scored all their runs they needed in the bottom of the sixth on a triple by Ben Heinemann (Jacksonville, Illinois) and a double from Josh Krumwiede (Carrollton, Illinois). 

Friday, March 1, 2013

CCIW Baseball Players of the Week

The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin baseball players of the week go to Jacob Van Duyne and Ben Heaton.

Van Duyne earned the CCIW Hitter of the Week going 10-18 (.556) with two doubles, 3 rbi's and scoring five times last week.  Jacob is a junior from Wilmington Illinois.

Heaton won the CCIW Pitcher of the Week honors by working seven innings, striking out six and issuing only one walk in a 6-0 victory.  Ben is from Heaton, Illinois.