The University of Illinois Springfield baseball team was far from an offensive juggernaut last season, batting a league-worst .241.
The Prairie Stars are knocking it out of the park a year later.
UIS (23-17 overall) has hit 40 home runs and is the second-best home run hitting team in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.
Junior outfielder Trey Hannam is tied for third in the league with 10 home runs. Senior second baseman Adam Warda has eight. Senior third baseman Gabriel Acevedo and junior designated hitter/first baseman Jason Galeano have six each.
"We’re hitting for power right now,” UIS coach Chris Ramirez said. “It makes it fun to watch, coach and play."
There’s more to UIS’ season than the long ball. UIS has a higher batting average. It ranks seventh in the 16-team GLVC with a .297 average.
Six UIS players are hitting between .300 and .375.
“It helps our competitive edge come out,” Hannam said. “We all want to be the best. The weather keeps getting hotter and that always helps the ball fly a little bit.”
The team was featured by The State Journal-Register on April 29, 2016.
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Bernard Schoenburg: Trustee Hoffman
Nathan Hoffman, who started a job in January staffing the Springfield office of U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Peoria, has been elected to a one-year term as the student trustee from the University of Illinois Springfield.
Hoffman, 21, is officially a junior at UIS and continues to take online and evening classes while working full time for LaHood. He said he’s on track to graduate next spring.
LaHood, Hoffman said, is “100 percent supportive” of the elective post on the U of I board of trustees. Hoffman has been president of the UIS College Republicans in the school year just ending.
“I’ve never shied away from taking on new challenges as long as I think I can commit 100 percent of my effort to it,” Hoffman said.
Student trustees to the U of I board are elected from each of the three main campuses — Chicago, Springfield and Champaign-Urbana. Two get advisory votes, and the governor gets to designate one who gets a binding vote.
The story was reported by The State Journal-Register on April 28, 2016.
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Hoffman, 21, is officially a junior at UIS and continues to take online and evening classes while working full time for LaHood. He said he’s on track to graduate next spring.
LaHood, Hoffman said, is “100 percent supportive” of the elective post on the U of I board of trustees. Hoffman has been president of the UIS College Republicans in the school year just ending.
“I’ve never shied away from taking on new challenges as long as I think I can commit 100 percent of my effort to it,” Hoffman said.
Student trustees to the U of I board are elected from each of the three main campuses — Chicago, Springfield and Champaign-Urbana. Two get advisory votes, and the governor gets to designate one who gets a binding vote.
The story was reported by The State Journal-Register on April 28, 2016.
Read the story online.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
UIS women's golf team earns regional bid
The University of Illinois Springfield women’s golf has earned a team bid to the NCAA Division II East Super Regional at Panther Creek Country Club May 2-4.
It is the first time the Prairie Stars have qualified for a super regional as a team. UIS shot a school record 54-hole total of 932 and tied for third at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship last weekend.
UIS is seeded 10th out of 12 teams at the East Super Regional. The teams, in seed order, are: Grand Valley State, Indianapolis, Findlay, Southern Indiana, Missouri-St. Louis, Ashland, California (Pennsylvania), Northwood (Michigan), Trevecca Nazarene, UIS, Lewis and William Jewell. Six individuals will also compete in the regional.
The story was reported by The State Journal-Register on April 27, 2016.
Read the story online.
It is the first time the Prairie Stars have qualified for a super regional as a team. UIS shot a school record 54-hole total of 932 and tied for third at the Great Lakes Valley Conference Championship last weekend.
UIS is seeded 10th out of 12 teams at the East Super Regional. The teams, in seed order, are: Grand Valley State, Indianapolis, Findlay, Southern Indiana, Missouri-St. Louis, Ashland, California (Pennsylvania), Northwood (Michigan), Trevecca Nazarene, UIS, Lewis and William Jewell. Six individuals will also compete in the regional.
The story was reported by The State Journal-Register on April 27, 2016.
Read the story online.
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