Image courtesy of goredbirds.com NORMAL, Ill. – Hot bats and steady pitching led the way for Illinois State baseball over the weekend, as the Redbirds (7-14 overall) scored 22 total runs in three games en route to winning two out of three contests against Arkansas State (5-14 overall) in their non-conference series. Illinois State opened the series Friday by snapping a six-game losing streak with a 6-3 win over the […]
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 […]
Photo courtesy ISU Athletics SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A former redbird is returning to the diamond as an assistant coach. University of Illinois Springfield Head Baseball Coach Ryan Copeland announced last week that he is hiring former Redbird Derek Parola as an assistant coach of the Prairie Stars. Parola credits his success to the ones at ISU who helped put him in this position. “Coach Holm and Coach Crancer played a […]
The RedZone opens up the semester by introducing the new crew. RedZone vet Hector Carrion takes the reigns as host and is joined by newcomers Joey Dwyer and Scott Wrzala. The boys opened up the show recapping the Redbirds baseball postseason run and checking on the birds who entered the MLB via the draft this spring (2:23-10:20). Next up were the ISU fall sports as both the football and volleyball […]
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 […]
With just two shows left this semester Andy, Julie, and Hector's time together is quickly coming to an end. The crew opened up this weeks show talking some Redbird Baseball, as the team is riding a 5-game win streak heading into a big weekend series against Dallas Baptist (1:41-12:47). Next, Andy sat down with the Vidette Sports Editor, Jon Barlas, to talk being a student member of the media (12:48-25:19). […]
This week on The RedZone the crew is finally back together for an entire show! Andy, Julie, and Hector opened up this weeks show talking all things Redbird Softball and Redbird Baseball as both seasons are finally in full swing (2:36-14:19). Next, Andy and Julie sat down with Devin Taylor from Redbird Football as the team begins to wrap up spring practice in preparation for the spring game (14:30-25:02). After, […]
NORMAL - The -30 degree wind chill in Bloomington-Normal on Thursday was about as far away from “baseball weather” as one could imagine. ISU and surrounding schools cancelled classes last week due to the freezing cold. Despite this, Redbird Baseball and Softball went through with their preseason press conferences at Redbird Arena. Both teams begin their respective regular seasons in the coming weeks. At the conclusion of last season, the […]
