May 20, 2007

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1. Lars Davis' two-homer game is his third of the year, also homering twice against Dartmouth on March 23 and at Iowa on April 22.

2. Nick Stockwell's fifth-inning home run off the Illinois Field scoreboard made him the first Illini to hit the board since Dusty Bensko did it on May 6, 2005, against Northwestern.

3. Jake Toohey's 4 1/3-inning outing was his longest of the season, and the 61 pitches he threw also were a season high. Toohey hadn't pitched more than two innings since a rehab start on Spring Trip this season on March 23, going three innings. He tossed six innings five times in 2006, when he was a starter, and has a career-long outing of 6 1/3-inning of relief against Sam Houston State on March 6, 2005.

4. Toohey threw 40 of 61 pitches for strikes (65 percent), and reached a three-ball count on just three hitters in 4 1/3 innings.

5. With his two hits today, Davis moves into second on Illinois' season hits record list with 89. Tim Richardson's 1982 season is the benchmark with 104 hits.

6. Davis also finished the Big Ten regular season with 40 hits, moving him into fifth on the Illini record list for hits in a Big Ten season.

7. Davis and Mike Rohde finished the Big Ten season with 27 runs apiece, putting them at No. 7 on the conference-games runs list.

8. With his appearance today, Toohey moved into fifth place on the Illinois record list for pitching appearances in Big Ten games with 13 this season, tied with Matt Vorwald's 2000 campaign.

9. Today's win puts Illinois into its third-consecutive Big Ten Tournament and ninth in the last 12 years.

10. The victory also pushed the Illini to the 30-win plateau, marking the second time in three years they have accomplished the feat. It is the eighth time in the last 12 years Illinois has reached 30 wins.