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Playing extra innings baseball for third time in the last five games, the Northern Illinois baseball team (22-33) surrendered two runs in the top of the 11th to Bowling Green (21-28) as the Huskies fell to the Falcons, 6-4. “We had a great approach on the offensive side of the ball on their starting pitcher....
Northern Illinois catcher Nate Ruzich (Joliet, Ill./South Suburban College) was named the Mid-American Conference’s West Division Player of the Week in the conference’s final weekly award. Ruzich earned his first career honor with strong play behind the dish and at the plate. The award is the Huskies second player of the week award this season...
Northern Illinois baseball players Eli Anderson (Glenview, Ill./New Trier) and Alex Klonowski (Kearney, Mo./Kearney) were selected First Team All-Mid-American Conference Tuesday night, the first such honor for both players and the first for NIU since 2011. Classmate Jeff Zimmerman (Tinley Park/Andrew) was selected to the second team as an at-large selection at first base. Anderson is...
Following a 10-month national search, Northern Illinois University announced it has selected Eric A. Weldy, associate vice president for Student Affairs at Florida State University, as its new vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management. Weldy will assume his duties at NIU beginning July 1, 2013. “In Eric, NIU found a great person to...
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MAC West champions! The Northern Illinois baseball team (22-32, 16-11 MAC) clinched its first ever Mid-American Conference West division championship Saturday afternoon in 10 innings at Ball Diamond as the Huskies defeated Ball State (28-23, 15-12 MAC) on Connor Schomig’s (Darien/Hinsdale South) three-run double, 6-4. NIU now travels to the MAC Tournament in Avon, Ohio,...
Northern Illinois reliever Zach Badgley (McHenry/McHenry) worked 4-2/3 innings for Huskies, limiting Ball State to one run, two hits and two strikeouts. NIU (21-32, 15-11 MAC) would fall to BSU (28-22, 15-11 MAC) in game two of the series, 14-3. Today’s game will now decide the Mid-American Conference West division champion. Ball State jumped out...
After years of deterioration and a dubious two-decade reign atop NIU’s capital budget request list, the Stevens Building is drawing nearer to its long-awaited transformation. Construction will begin after Jan. 1, 2014, following an environmental survey planned for early in the fall and the letting of bids in October. First, though, the two departments that...
In a pitchers’ duel featuring two of the Mid-American Conference’s top hurlers, Northern Illinois (21-31, 15-10 MAC) fell to Ball State (27-22, 14-11 MAC) in Game One of this week’s series, 3-2. Eli Anderson (Glenview/New Trier) tossed his sixth complete game of the season in the loss. BSU pitcher Scott Baker also tossed a complete...
Northern Illinois tennis players Dor Amir and Frederic Cadieux doubled their honors this spring as the duo was named to the Mid-American Conference’s All-Academic squad, following their All-MAC honors at season’s end. It is the first such award for both players and Northern Illinois’ first honor since 2010, when three-time selection Javier Bernabe earned his...
Northern Illinois women’s tennis players Haley Dekkinga (Allegan, Mich./Allegan HS) and Nelle Youel (Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central HS) have been named to the 2013 Academic All-MAC Women’s Tennis team as selected by the league’s faculty athletics representatives, the Mid-American Conference Office announced Thursday. In addition, Youel earned one of 10 spots on the Capital...
NIU teacher candidates and their co-teaching partners in District 428 recently celebrated the successes of a new model of teacher preparation – the professional development school’s co-teaching model. In the co-teaching model, an NIU teacher candidate is paired with a master teacher from a partnering school district. The pair spends a full year collaborating on...
