NIU Today

A day after winning convincingly against Akron, the Northern Illinois baseball team was unable to string hits together against the Zips pitcher Pat Dyer and fell, 8-1. The Huskies were not able to score until the sixth inning off of Dyer, who pitched a complete game. “It was a flat day for us and I’m...

The Northern Illinois baseball team scored a season-high 10 runs in its Mid-American Conference opener against Akron, defeating the Zips, 10-5. NIU (7-19, 1-2 MAC) combined for 10 hits, three of which came from Alex Jones, who also added four RBI in the contest. “It’s always good to get the first win of the series...

Behind a brilliant pitching performance from Jake Hermsen, Northern Illinois (6-19) defeated UW-Milwaukee (6-15), 5-4. Hermsen struck out five Panthers and walked zero in six innings of work to earn his first win of the season for NIU at a windy Ralph McKinzie Field. “Under the conditions today I thought we played pretty good defense...

The Northern Illinois baseball team returns home for an eight-game home stand, beginning Tuesday afternoon when the Huskies take on perennial foe UW-Milwaukee at 3:05 p.m. The Huskies have won four of the last five contests over the Panthers. NIU played its first home game of the season last Tuesday when it hosted UIC, extinguishing...

Northern Illinois and Kent State met Saturday afternoon in a pitchers dual at Schoonover Field as both teams surrendered a mere six hits apiece. The Golden Flashes would have the advantage after nine however and defeated the Huskies, 6-1. Taylor Nawrocki had a career-high seven strikeouts in the contest in seven innings pitched. “Taylor Nawrocki...

Northern Illinois (5-16) scored six runs in the second inning and added two more in the fourth inning to topple Illinois-Chicago (5-12), 8-6, in the Huskies 2012 home-opener. Sophomore Eli Anderson earned his first career win on the mound in his second career start for NIU. “Scoring six runs in the second inning was huge...

Junior Taylor Nawrocki (Fairmont, Minn./Granada-Huntley-East Chain) pitched 8.1 scoreless innings for Northern Illinois (4-16) against in-state rival Illinois (9-7), leading the Huskies to a 3-0 victory at Rent One Park against the defending Big Ten Champions. Senior Kyle Glancy (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park-River Forest) closed the game for his third save of the season. “That...

Trailing 3-1 in the top of the eighth innings, Northern Illinois rattled off eight runs in the final two innings to defeat Southern Illinois, 9-4. The Salukis committed four errors in the contest, two of which occurred in the final innings. “Our guys really put the pressure on them in the eighth inning and battled...

Northern Illinois baseball took on Illinois in game one of its doubleheader at Southern Illinois’ Abe Martin Field. In a 7-0 deficit, the Huskies rallied back in the eighth and ninth inning but fell to the Illini, 7-2. Northern Illinois left eight runners on base against Illinois, totaling all of them from the fourth inning...

Senior Tom Barry (Orland Park, Ill./Providence Catholic) worked 7.1 innings for the Huskies against Southern Illinois Friday, including perfect three innings to start the game, but the Salukis posted three runs in the eighth inning to defeat Northern Illinois, 6-4. “Tommy was phenomenal for us on the mound today, we just couldn’t get more runs...

Northern Illinois out-hit Saint Louis, 10-9, at Busch Sports Center Wednesday afternoon but the Huskies were unable to hit with runners on base and fell, 4-1. Eight different Huskies tallied hits against the Billikens. “It was very similar to yesterday’s game, starting pitching did well for us, we got hits but we couldn’t get them...

Trailing 2-0 in the sixth inning, Northern Illinois tied Saint Louis with a string of hits by the top of the Huskies lineup, 2-2. But the Billikens countered with five runs in the bottom of the eighth to take the ball game, 7-2, at Billikens Sports Center. “We didn’t take advantage of our situational hitting...