Gabe Newman, Assistant Sports Editor
• March 13, 2025
After graduation from Carthage College 2014, Mike Pugliese prepared to intertwine baseball, the game he loved playing, into the rest of his life.
Seven years before he joined the Eastern baseball...
Gabe Newman, Assistant Sports Editor
• March 3, 2025
Editor's Note: Tuesday's game against U of I has been rained out and cancelled.
This season offensively, Eastern has a team batting average of .224 and has accumulated 88 total bases,...
Gabe Newman, Assistant Sports Editor
• February 12, 2025
With opening day set for Friday, the theme of the Eastern baseball’s 2025 season is health.
In a 2024 season where the Panthers lost many of their key pitchers to injury, including senior right...
Gabe Newman, Assistant Sports Editor
• February 10, 2025
On a typical day when senior right-handed pitcher Tyler Conklin is scheduled to start for Eastern’s baseball team, his pregame routine gets going long before the first pitch.
He begins his warm-up...
On June 6, former EIU pitcher Hayden Birdsong stepped out on Wrigley Field to the pitching mound.
Wearing his San Francisco Giants jersey with “Birdsong” in big letters on the back above...
On Sept. 11, 2001, former big leaguer, Big 10 pitcher of the year in 2000 and current Eastern Illinois baseball head coach Jason Anderson was woken up from his mother’s couch to the alarm of the...
It’s been almost a year since, then senior closing pitcher, Zane Robbins, earned his seventh save of the season, closing out the Ohio Valley Conference Championship game against Morehead State University...
Eastern salvaged the series against Morehead State University on Sunday afternoon at Coaches Stadium, winning the series finale 5-1.
The Panthers seemed more amped up than usual because it was senior...
Eastern lost their sixth consecutive game against Morehead State University 18-10 on Saturday afternoon at Coaches Stadium.
The Eagles scored nine runs early into the game (four runs in the first...
Eastern lost a back-and-forth game against Morehead State University 7-6 on Friday afternoon at Coaches Stadium.
Morehead State led 6-3 going into the bottom of the seventh inning, when Eastern’s...
Eastern split a doubleheader against the University of Southern Indiana on Thursday at Coaches Stadium, winning game one 4-2 and losing game two 8-1.
Junior right-hander Casey Perrenoud went...
Eastern couldn’t overcome a nine-run first inning by Butler University, losing 10-6 to the Bulldogs on Wednesday at Coaches Stadium.
Four batters into the ballgame, the Panthers were down...
![[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois University baseball's hitting coach and recruiting coordinator Mike Pugliese urges players on the team to increase their effort after a slow start to its pregame routine at the team's first intrasquad scrimmage of the season at O'Brien Field on Jan. 31, 2025.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BB_02_O-1-e1741909628540-1200x702.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior tennis player Luisa Renovales Salazar hits the tennis ball with her racket at the Darling Courts at the Eastern Illinois University campus in Charleston, ILL.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Tennis_01_O-1-e1741807434552-1200x670.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior right-handed pitcher Tyler Conklin pitching in the Eastern Illinois University baseball team's intrasquad scrimmage at O'Brien Field in Charleston, Illinois on Jan. 31.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TC_01_O-e1741567955534-1200x669.jpg)
![[Thumbnail Edition] Senior, forward Macy McGlone finds an open teammate to pass the ball too during the game against the Tennessee State Tigers 69-49, in Groniger Arena on the Eastern Illinois University campus, Charleston Ill.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WBB_02_O-1-e1741228987440-1200x692.jpg)
![E[Thumbnail Edition] Eastern Illinois softball freshman utility player Abbi Hatton deciding to throw the softball to home plate in a fielding drill during softball practice at the field house in Groniger arena on Tuesday Feb. 11.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SB_03_O-e1741208880750-1-e1741209739187-1200x815.jpg)
![The Weeklings lead guitarist John Merjave [Left] and guitarist Bob Burger [Right] perform "I Am the Walrus" at The Weeklings Beatles Bash concert in the Dvorak Concert Hall on Saturday.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WL_01_O-1200x900.jpg)
![The team listens as its captain Patience Cox [Number 25] lectures to them about what's appropriate to talk about through practice during "The Wolves" on Thursday, March 6, in the Black Box Theatre in the Doudna Fine Arts Center in Charleston, Ill.](https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WolvesPre-12-1200x800.jpg)
