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Brett Frantini
Former Northern Illinois catcher Brett Frantini (2009-2012) signed a contract Aug. 17 with the Baltimore Orioles Rookie League affiliate and reported Tuesday, Aug. 21, to the Gulf Coast League Orioles in Sarasota, Fla. “It’s great news for Brett and his family,” said head coach Ed Mathey. “I know that this is something he had a...
Brett Frantini
On an immaculate sunny and breezy day at Ralph McKinzie Field, the Huskies closed the 2012 season against Ball State. Though NIU rallied back to within one run in the bottom of the fourth, 3-2, the Cardinals took the game 6-2. “We had a couple opportunities but we like to talk about momentum in games...
Ben Neumann
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...
Brett Frantini
Northern Illinois closed its road season Tuesday night with a 10-run, 12-hit outing against UW-Milwaukee at Henry Aaron Field. Despite a 94-minute rain delay, the Huskies were able to keep their foot on the throttle and defeated the Panthers, 10-4. Brett Frantini (Minooka, Ill.) finished 2-for-4 at the plate with a homerun and four RBI....
Jeff Zimmerman
Sophomore Jeff Zimmerman (Tinley Park, Ill./Victor J. Andrew) hammered two homeruns and drove in six RBI as Northern Illinois clobbered Illinois-Chicago, 11-9. The Huskie pitching staff combined for 13 strikeouts in the game and Kyle Glancy (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park-River Forest) notched his 11th save of the season. “The guys battled hard out there and...
Alex Jones
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...
Connor Schomig
Northern Illinois baseball combined for eight hits against UW-Milwaukee and the bullpen finished the last three innings of the game with four strikeouts, one run and surrendered only two hits in the Huskies 13-2 loss to the Panthers. “We’re in a pressing mode as hitters and sometimes when you get into that, you try to...
Alex Beckmann
The Northern Illinois baseball team swung hot bats, combining for 12 hits and 10 runs, but it wasn’t enough for the Huskies as they fell to Ohio, 19-10. NIU falls to 2-7 in Mid-American Conference play. “We swung the bats better today and 10 runs is going to win you a lot of ball games...
Jake Hermsen
It was a pitchers dual at Ralph McKinzie Field Saturday afternoon as Northern Illinois and Ohio combined for four runs with the Bobcats taking game two of the series, 3-1. Senior hurler Jake Hermsen threw 138 pitches with over seven innings in the contest, with seven strikeouts in the loss. “Jake threw the ball well...
Eli Anderson
The Northern Illinois baseball team took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning on four hits, but faltered late in the game against Ohio, surrendering nine runs in the final two innings and falling, 13-2. “We had a really disappointing game. We took a good, Friday MAC baseball game through six innings...
Jake Hermsen
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...
Alex Klonowski
Northern Illinois opened its Mid-American Conference baseball season Friday afternoon at Kent State, accounting for the six runs and eight hits, but the Golden Flashes were too much for the Huskies and defeated NIU, 12-6. Alex Klonowski batted an outstanding 4-for-5 today with a double, an RBI and two runs. “We just didn’t do what...
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