Military Night Wednesday against Moline

Wednesday night at 7:30 pm at Sundburg Field, Post 285 will host Moline in a match up between the defending state and Great Lakes region champion and the 20 - 6 Galesburg Post 285 team. This will be a good warm up for the top level competition at the Leo Brunner Invite this weekend at Moline.

Pizza House Meet and Greet Tonight

Post 285 Baseball will be hosting a meet and greet tonight from 5:00 - 8:00 pm at the Pizza House. Please help support Post 285 Baseball and enjoy some great food and talk with the players. We greatly appreciate your support.

Post 285 has successful Wheaton Tournament, Washington Tournament this weekend

Galesburg Post 285 went 4-1 this weekend facing some of the best teams in the region at the Wheaton Tournament. Galesburg's only loss came in the opening game of the tournament in a 7-6 loss to Midland Michigan which won the Legion National Tournament in 2009. Tim Rossell, Nick Milligan, Colton Crain, and Chris Fields all had strong starts and wins for post 285.

Post 285 also swept Farmington Tuesday night, and beat Oneida earlier tonight. The rest of the week's schedule includes 6:00 pm @ Geneseo Thursday, and 5:30 pm Friday night against Macomb at Sundberg Field.

This weekend's Washington Tournament schedule is Sat 5:00 pm Matoon, 8:00 Washington, Sunday 12:00 Rock Island, 3:00 Limestone.

Tonights game against Peoria has been cancelled

Tonight's game, has been canceled due to wet field conditions and more poor weather forecast for tonight. We will resume playing with a 9 inning contest tomorrow night at 5:30 at Canton.

Review of Week 1

We just finished our first full week of the 2011 season with a home split of a doubleheader with Milan. It has been probably the most interesting opening week in the 4 seasons that I have been a coach for Post 285 Baseball. We currently sit at 9-4 as we have a couple more games to tune up for the Wheaton Tournament this weekend.

MLB Draft

Congratulations to former Galesburg High School and Post 285 pitcher Kyle Hunter for being drafted for the third time. He was taken in the 31st round by the Seattle Mariners. Tyler Farrell, who just finished his senior year at GHS and is currently playing for Post 285 was also drafted in the 43rd round by the New York Yankees.

Legion sweeps Geneseo in the home opener

In a rematch of the 2010 district championship game, Galesburg was again victorious over Geneseo with wins of 11-1 and 9-4. Tyler Farrel threw a 5 inning no hitter while allowing an unearned run in game one while Logan Scott earned the win in game 2 with Nick Hull picking up the 9 out save.

Legion Splits at Milan

After Post 285 showed some rust in its season opening 6-0 lost to Farmington last night, our bats finally showed some life in game 2 of the Saturday doubleheader at Sherrard High School. Post 285 lost the opener 5-2 and won game 2 by a score of 15-2.

Galesburg American Legion Baseball opens tonight at East Moline

Although the high school baseball season ended far sooner than we would've liked, the summer offers a new beginning to 18 baseball players who hope to open up the season tonight weather permitting. I will put up a schedule and roster soon. Here is the link to the register mail's season preview.