Tag: soccer
The Northern Illinois women’s soccer team concluded non-conference play Friday with an away game against the Loyola Ramblers. After another defensive battle, NIU found itself behind 1-0 after regulation, falling to 2-5-1 on the season. With the loss, the Huskies have now dropped four of their last five games, going 0-4-1 over that stretch. The...
Junior Isaac Kannah (Plymouth, Minn./Prairie Seeds Academy) opened the scoring but two second half goals gave Fairleigh Dickinson a 2-1 win over the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team on Friday evening in the Northwestern Lakeside Classic. “I thought that we kind of got away from how we want to play,” said NIU head coach Eric...
Trailing 1-0 at the half, the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team earned a 2-1 comeback victory over UW Green Bay on Sunday afternoon in the final game of the NIU adidas Invitational. Senior Sean Totsch (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) and junior Jayson LeSeth (Des Plaines, Ill./Maine West) each scored to help lift the Huskies to the comeback...
The Northern Illinois women’s soccer team traveled to Green Bay to take on the Green Bay Phoenix, who came into the Friday match with a 2-2-3 record on the season. The first whistle blew at 4 p.m. to start the game, and after 90 minutes of play, the Huskies found themselves behind 1-0, losing the...
The Northern Illinois men’s soccer team fell to Butler, 1-0, on Friday afternoon in the NIU adidas Invitational at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex. A 35th minute goal from Anthony Smith Jr., was enough to give the Bulldogs the victory in a tight match that featured just five total shots on target....
Despite playing down a man for nearly 60 minutes, the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team held off No. 14 Saint Louis until the 105th minute when Kingsley Bryce scored a double overtime game-winner for the Billikens in the Cincinnati Bearcat Soccer Classic. Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Andrew Glaeser (Walla Walla, Wash./Walla Walla/Oregon State) made six saves...
Northern Illinois took on South Dakota State Sunday to conclude the Jackrabbit Invitational in Brookings, S.D. Unfortunately for the Huskies, it was a sour ending. A tight match was dropped when SDSU’s Caylee Costello headed in a corner kick during the 89th minute to give the Jackrabbits the late 2-1 advantage. That held, and the...
The Northern Illinois men’s soccer team fell behind 2-0 early, but battled back to force overtime before falling, 3-2, to Evansville on Friday in the Cincinnati Bearcat Soccer Classic. Junior Isaac Kannah (Plymouth, Minn./Prairie Seeds Academy) and freshman Cody Witkowski (Batavia, Ill./Batavia) each scored for the Huskies. Senior Miles Herbert (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) made five saves...
The NIU Women’s Soccer Team saw its record drop to 2-2-0 Friday with an afternoon loss to the South Dakota Coyotes in the first game of the Jackrabbit Invitational. It was a tough game for the Huskies in Brookings, S.D., as they failed to score in the second half while the Coyotes did so twice...
The Huskie women’s soccer team fought through exhaustion and heat Sunday to pull out victory over the Lewis Flyers at the NIU Soccer Complex. NIU won 2-1 in double-overtime, the first overtime affair of the season for the Huskies. It was very close to ending in a tie, as only roughly 2:41 remained on the...
Despite having more possession, hitting both the post and the crossbar and earning a pair of penalty kicks, the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team was upended, 2-0, by Ohio State on Sunday afternoon at the Bert and Iris Wolstein Classic. Ohio State (1-1-0) scored in the 31st minute on a goal by Alex Harrison and...
The Northern Illinois men’s soccer team was picked to finish third in the preseason Mid-American Conference Coaches’ Poll released today by the conference office. Akron was tabbed as the preseason favorite in the MAC, followed by West Virginia, NIU, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Western Michigan and Hartwick. “In general we don’t put a lot of stock...
