Image courtesy of Illinois State Athletics The Illinois State baseball team has made a new hire at the assistant coach position, hiring Tony Jandron. Tony Jandron has been building his reputation as a successful coach in every program he has been a part of. He was the assistant at Central Michigan for five seasons before joining the Redbirds. The Chippewas went 177-80 while he was the assistant there. Before coaching […]
Image Courtesy of ISU Athletics The Redbird baseball team continued their season-opening road trip to Arkansas with a mid-week match-up against the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville on Wednesday. After taking two of three from Arkansas State the weekend prior, the Birds looked to test their skills against the 8th nationally ranked program. Illinois State opened this thriller with one run in the first inning, thanks to a single up […]
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill - After the Illinois State baseball team took two games out of three down in Clarksville, TN against Austin Peay last week, the Birds traveled back north to Edwardsville for a one-game matchup. The Cougars jumped out with an early two-run lead in the bottom of the first inning. The deficit was cut in half thanks to Adrian Flores and Auggie Rasmussen scoring off singles from both Dylan […]
Photo courtesy goredbirds.com NORMAL, Ill. - The Redbird baseball team reloaded their roster this signing day with nine new recruits. The Birds currently have four outgoing seniors on their roster, and with the addition of nine new recruits, it will bolster the team depth greatly for the 2022 season. “We are extremely excited with this class. It is very balanced with speed, power, defense, velocity, breaking stuff, and strikes," Head […]
This photo is courtesy of goredbirds.com. NORMAL, Ill.- The Illinois State baseball team dropped both games Friday against Indiana State. The Redbirds fell 4-2 and 6-1 in the first two games of their four game weekend series against Indiana State. Illinois State had a great outing from pitcher Colton Johnson in game one. Johnson threw six innings and had zero earned runs given up along with five strikeouts. The Sycamores […]
Image courtesy of goredbirds.com NORMAL Ill.-Wednesday night, the Illinois State baseball team fell to Eastern Illinois 9-7 in their return to Duffy Bass Field. The Redbirds fall to 5-13 overall in non-conference games, dropping their last six straight. The Redbird's bats were not completely cold on a brisk night in Normal, scoring seven runs. Hayden Jones went 3-5 with a double, and Gunner Peterson had two RBIs. They had a […]
Photo Courtesy Redbird Athletics Story by Andrew Evola NORMAL, Ill. - The Illinois State baseball team announced their non-conference and conference schedule Wednesday afternoon via Twitter. The Redbirds will have a challenging non-conference schedule. They will travel to Nashville to take on the Belmont Bruins to start the season on February 19th, the Bruins enter the season being ranked just outside the top 50 of the preseason rankings. The Birds […]
As both the 2018-2019 Academic year and the 2019 Baseball Season are coming to a close, here is an updated broadcast schedule for the remaining Redbird Baseball games. 5/3 @ 4:50 vs Indiana State 5/4 @ 1:50 vs Indiana State 5/5 @ 12:50 vs Indian State 5/16 @ 4:50 vs Evansville 5/17 @ 4:50 vs Evansville 5/18 @ 12:50 vs Evansville 5/21-5/25 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Duffy Bass Field will […]
NORMAL - Back in September when his team’s schedule was released, first-year Illinois State Baseball Head Coach Steve Holm had one thing in mind for their April 17th matchup with Sacramento State: to bite the hand that once fed him. On Wednesday night at Duffy Bass Field, Holm and the Redbirds did just that when they defeated the Hornets in a close game, 2 -1. Before serving as Purdue's pitching […]
