Category: Sports
The Northern Illinois University softball team‘s doubleheader against Loyola set for this afternoon has been canceled because of inclement weather. No make-up date has been set. Northern Illinois (11-23, 1-5) welcomes Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan for a weekend set. NIU will face the Chippewas in a doubleheader Friday while the Eagles will be in...
The Northern Illinois men’s tennis team bounced back from a Saturday defeat at Ball State Sunday as the Huskies (13-7) defeated the Mastadons (7-12), 4-3. NIU claimed the first point of the match with doubles victories at Nos. 2 and 3 to gain a 1-0 lead. Frederic Cadieux and Jovan Zeljkovic muscled their way to...
Trailing 3-1 in the eighth inning, the Northern Illinois baseball team (11-18, 6-3 MAC) rallied back with a two-run homerun in the eighth and a pair of RBI walks in the ninth to defeat Central Michigan (12-18, 3-6 MAC) and claim the Huskies first series in Mt. Pleasant since 2009, 5-3. Landon Tenhagen (Burlington, Wis./Madison...
A walk-off home run proved to be the difference as the Northern Illinois University softball team dropped a 5-4 extra inning contest to Miami at MU Softball Stadium Sunday afternoon. “We battled from behind twice and showed a ton of fight,” said NIU head coach Christina Sutcliffe. “We just need to figure out how to...
The Northern Illinois track and field team took third place Saturday at the Chicagoland Championships in Romeoville, Ill. The Huskies totaled 83 points in the meet to take bronze. DePaul won with 156 points, while North Central took second with a final tally of 102.50. “This weekend’s competition was a solid effort from our ladies,”...
Northern Illinois continued its Mid-American Conference season Saturday at Ball State, in hopes of improving to 2-1 in the MAC. The Huskies (12-7, 1-2 MAC) would fall to the Cardinals however, 7-0. NIU will look to rebound tomorrow at IPFW in preparations for their next MAC match at Toledo. “Ball State was better than us...
Northern Illinois’ Eli Anderson (Glenview/New Trier) pitched his third-consecutive complete game Saturday at Central Michigan (12-17, 3-5 MAC), striking out six and walking three in the Huskies (10-18, 5-3 MAC) 7-2 triumph. Anderson is now 4-3 this season after his 120 pitch, 78 strike performance (.650 strike ratio). It is the most complete games by...
For the second-straight game, the Northern Illinois baseball team (9-17) tallied at least 10 hits and runs in a game as it defeated UW-Milwaukee (11-12) in the Huskies home opener, 10-6. Freshman Bobby Kuntzendorf (Yorkville/Aurora Christian) earned his first career victory as the starting pitcher. Senior Jamison Wells batted 3-for-4 with three runs, four RBI...
The Northern Illinois University softball team dropped a 7-3 contest to Illinois State at Marian Kneer Stadium Wednesday. “We weren’t able to get the clutch hit or clutch defensive play when we needed it,” said NIU head coach Christina Sutcliffe. “They had a couple hits that just fell in that ended up being the difference...
Pressure – the burden of physical or mental distress, according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary. NIU (8-17, 4-2 MAC) did not carry a burden or feel distress versus Akron (4-20, 2-4 MAC) on Easter Sunday as it scored 11 of its 14 runs with two outs to sweep the series and defeat the Zips, 14-4. It was...
Northern Illinois’ No. 1 player Nelle Youel (Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central HS) improved her singles record to 18-2 on the season to record the Huskies’ lone victory in a 6-1 loss to Western Michigan Saturday at the Huskie Tennis Courts in DeKalb. Youel and the Broncos’ Nina Sujashvili split the first two sets, with...
A three-run seventh proved to be the difference Saturday as Western Michigan handed the Northern Illinois University softball team a 7-6 setback in Mid-American Conference action at Mary M. Bell Field. “They continued to play to according to their strengths and when push came to shove they did a nice job of staying in it...
