Illinois baseball catcher Jason Goldstein, right, celebrates hitting a grand slam in the fourth inning to help the Illini defeat Rutgers 28-13 on May 10, 2015.

Ten years ago on Saturday — May 10, 2015 — an 11-run eighth inning capped the Illini baseball team’s 28-13 victory against Rutgers. Registering its school-record 24th consecutive win and its sixth straight Big Ten series sweep, coach Dan Hartleb’s 43-6-1 club hammered out five home runs. Reid Roper’s three hits were part of his six-run, six-RBI performance. Jason Goldstein’s 5 for 5 effort at the plate included a grand slam.

➜ May 10, 1930: A pair of home runs by Don Brown and a long smash over the centerfield wall by Doug Mills helped Illinois beat host Michigan 11-8 in Ann Arbor.

➜ May 10, 1940: Bill Hapac’s big day — a home run, two triples and a single in five at-bats — paced Illinois to a 21-13 victory at Purdue.

➜ May 10, 1941: Led by Lou Fina and Caton Cobb, the Illini men’s gymnastics team won a share of the National AAU title.

➜ May 10, 1975: The Illini men’s track and field squad set four new varsity records at the Illinois Intercollegiate meet, including marks by Craig Virgin in the six-mile run (28:10.0) and by the mile-relay quartet (3:08.2).

➜ May 10, 2002: In a 3-1 win against Penn State, Illinois ace Andy Dickinson became the first pitcher in Illini history to win 10 or more games in consecutive seasons.

➜ May 10, 2003: Coach Craig Tiley’s men’s tennis team improved its season record to 27-0 with a 4-0 victory against Butler at the Atkins Tennis Center.

➜ May 10, 2013: Freshman Kevin Duchene struck out 11 Penn State batters in a 9-0 shutout versus the visiting Nittany Lions. Justin Parr’s three hits, including a home run, extended his personal hitting streak to 32 games in a row.

➜ May 10, 2013: Senior distance runner Courtney Yaeger finished her 10,000-meter race at the Big Ten Championships with a school-record time of 34:17.37.

➜ May 10, 2014: The No. 12 Illinois men’s tennis rallied from a 3-0 deficit to beat Memphis, 4-3, in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Jared Hiltzik and Tim Kopinski won critical singles matches to secure the victory.

➜ May 10, 2019: Zac Taylor hit a walk-off three-run home run with two outs in the 12th inning to give 25th-ranked Illinois a 5-2 win against visiting Purdue.

➜ May 10, 2019: Senior pitcher Taylor Edwards held top-seeded Michigan scoreless for seven innings but lost the game, 1-0, when the Wolverines hit a home run in the bottom of the eighth.

➜ May 10, 2023: Danielle Davis’s grand slam home run highlighted a six-run third inning as 12th-seeded Illinois upset No. 5 Wisconsin, 8-4, in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament at Eichelberger Field in Urbana.

➜ May 10, 2024: Illini women’s track and field pole vaulter Tori Thomas won the Big Ten title, clearing a conference championship record height of 14 feet, 10-inches.

➜ May 10, 2024: Drake Westcott, Brody Harding and Colton Quagliano all hit home runs to lead Illinois to a 10-5 win against Iowa. The Illini went on to win their 31st Big Ten regular-season title.

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