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Greg and Kevin Smith
As soon as Northern Illinois University received its bid to the Discover Orange Bowl, NIU students Greg and Kevin Smith began making plans to ensure that they would be in Florida for the game on New Year’s Day. That made them no different from several thousand other NIU students who attended the game. What did...
Alex Klonowski
Postseason college baseball was at its finest on Friday morning at VA Memorial Stadium. Unfortunately for No. 4 Northern Illinois, it was on the wrong end of a 10-inning, 12-11 game against No. 5 Eastern Michigan in a Mid-American Conference Tournament elimination contest. In all, the best game of the tournament thus far took three-hours...
Troy White
With the help of seven runs in the fifth and sixth innings and an eight-run eighth Sunday afternoon, Northern Illinois took down Ball State 18-8 at Ralph McKinzie Field during Senior Day. The three-game series rubber match win clinched the Huskies’ first appearance in the Mid-American Conference Tournament since 2008, and gave them their sixth...
Brian Riegler
The Northern Illinois baseball team outslugged Illinois 15-14 on Friday to capture its fourth straight win.  The Huskies (4-10) scored early and often against a quintet of Illini pitchers, pounding out 18 hits at Southern Illinois’ Abe Martin Field. Junior Alex Beckmann started the barrage in the first when he laced a John Anderson offering...