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The Northern Illinois University softball team lost its doubleheader with Toledo at Scott Park Sunday afternoon. The Huskies (19-32, 7-13), who were playing a doubleheader with Toledo (18-32, 8-10) due to inclement Saturday, dropped the first game, 10-0, and were edged out, 4-3, in the final game. Northern Illinois took a 3-0 lead with a...
The NIU women’s golf team concluded its 2011-12 season with an eighth-place finish Sunday at the 2012 Mid-American Conference Women’s Golf Championships at Hawthorns Golf & Country Club in Fishers, Ind. Senior Kelsie Passolt (Hayward, Wis./Hayward) finished her NIU career on high note, turning in her lowest score of the season for a three-round event...
With the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, senior Kyle Glancy (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park-River Forest) forced a groundout to second base to secure Northern Illinois’ second road series of the season with a 3-1 win over Eastern Michigan. It was Glancy’s 10th save of the season. “It’s huge...
The Northern Illinois track and field team put the finishing touches on their regular season in impressive fashion, breaking school records in all three events in which the Huskies competed. The 4×100 relay mark was broken for the second-straight day, while the sprint medley relay and triple jump standards also fell. “Today was a record...
The NIU women’s golf team slipped to ninth after second-round play Saturday at the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championships in Fishers, Ind. “During the worst weather, we were seven shots up on the two teams that were below us at the time and making a run for the team above,” said head coach Pam Tyska. “Once...
Delayed by rain for a half hour and in frigid weather, Northern Illinois baseball fell to Eastern Michigan, 7-5, to even the series at 1-1. Huskie Alex Jones finished the game 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBI, a double and a run. “We played great defensively again today and again we made some really...
The Northern Illinois University softball team’s series opener with Toledo was canceled today. The two teams will play a doubleheader Sunday. First pitch for Game One is set for 11 a.m. Central Time. The Huskies (19-30, 7-11) split its doubleheader with Bowling Green on Friday, while Toledo split its doubleheader with Western Michigan. Sunday’s doubleheader...
Hurling eight innings and only surrendering two hits, Taylor Nawrocki led the Huskies to a 1-0 victory over Eastern Michigan. Nawrocki struckout seven and walked only two in his second combined shutout of 2012. It was the first time this season the Eagles had been shutout. Defense was the name of the game as both...
The Northern Illinois track and field team kept their record-breaking season going Friday at the Drake Relays, as the team set three new school records. The Huskies’ new standards came in the 4×100, 4×200 and distance medley relays, which now makes 22 new school records that have been set during the entire 2011-12 season. “The...
The NIU softball team split its doubleheader with Bowling Green at Meserve Field Friday afternoon. The Huskies (19-30, 7-11) rallied from a two run deficit in Game One, to post a 4-3 victory over Bowling Green (32-17, 12-4) to win their first game in six tries. Senior Dani Parrish (Plainfield, Ind./Plainfield), who has stepped up...
The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team dropped its quarterfinal matchup of the Mid-American Conference Tournament against the No. 2-seeded Akron Zips (22-3, 7-1 MAC) on Friday, 4-0. The loss marked the end of the Huskies’ season as the team finished with an 11-12 overall record and a 2-6 mark in MAC play. “We played great,”...
The NIU women’s golf team is seventh after one round of play Friday at the 2012 Mid-American Conference Women’s Golf Championships at Hawthorns Golf & Country Club in Fishers, Ind. The Huskies shot an opening round 333 and are one shot ahead of Ohio (334) and two shots ahead of Bowling Green, which sits in...
