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A five inning pitchers dual gave way to a Northern Illinois (16-21, 11-4 MAC) slugfest as the Huskies combined for 11 hits in the last four innings against Ohio (9-27, 5-10 MAC) to defeat the Bobcats, 10-3. Pitcher Alex Klonowski (Kearney, Mo./Kearney) picked up his fourth win of the season with seven shutout innings and...

Northern Illinois and Ball State went into extra innings Thursday afternoon with Mid-American Conference Tournament implications on the line. BSU scored one run in the top of the tenth to defeat the Huskies, 11-10 in 10 innings. Freshman Ben Neumann (Verona, Wis.) pitched 5.1 relief innings on the mound, surrendering three hits, zero walks and...

Down 5-0 after six innings, the Northern Illinois bullpen combined for three hitless and scoreless innings against Toledo, with the offense assembling a rally in the ninth, but the Huskies fell to the Rockets, 5-1. “We didn’t stop battling in the game and we were one batter away from tying the game and that’s your...

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...

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...

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...

The Northern Illinois baseball team added two more to its small, but strong recruiting class for the 2011-2012 season Thursday. Jordan Huffman (Sergeant Bluff, Iowa/North Iowa Area C.C.) and Taylor Nawrocki (Fairmont, Minn./North Iowa Area C.C.) mark NIU head coach Ed Mathey’s most recent newcomers, joining Anthony Ciango (Woodridge, Ill./Downers Grove North), Micah McCulloch (Rochelle,...

During the early signing period, the Northern Illinois baseball team received four commitments from the high school class of 2011, the team announced Wednesday. The quartet of new Huskies each earned impressive honors for their junior seasons and have yet to play their final campaigns as preps. Chase Matheson (McHenry, Ill./McHenry), Micah McCulloch (Rochelle, Ill./Rochelle)...