Tag: championships
The No. 1-seeded Northern Illinois volleyball team took down No. 4 Ball State 3-1 Saturday afternoon at SPIRE Institute to advance to the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship match for the second straight season. NIU’s (27-5) fifth appearance in the league’s title match will be at noon Sunday, Nov. 20, against the winner of the No....
Facing a raucous crowd at WMU’s University Arena, the Northern Illinois volleyball team defeated Western Michigan Thursday night, 3-1, to clinch the Mid-American Conference‘s West Division and regular season crown. This is NIU’s first West Division title since 2006 and their first MAC regular season title since 1998. It is also their first outright MAC...
Sophomores Sean Totsch (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) and James Stevenson (Falkirk, Scotland/St. Mungo’s) each scored to propel the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team to a 2-1 victory at Hartwick on Saturday evening. The victory was NIU’s fourth-straight conference win as the Huskies improve to 12-5-0 overall, 4-2-0 in the conference. “It felt like a tournament game, no...
The Northern Illinois cross country team is set to compete in their first postseason meet of the season, as they will head Saturday to Muncie, Ind., for the 2011 Mid-American Conference Championship. The meet will begin at 10 a.m. with the men’s 10K race, followed by the women’s 6K run at 11 a.m. Heading into...
No. 4-seeded Northern Illinois will face No. 5-seeded Eastern Michigan at 8 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, to open up the 2011 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament. The tournament will be held at VA Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe, Ohio. Making their first tournament appearance since 2008, the Huskies (29-25, 16-11 MAC) tied two more program-best accomplishments from...
The Northern Illinois 4×100-meter relay team and thrower Cora Caulfield have qualified to compete in the NCAA West Preliminary Round at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Chanel Kellyman, Roneisha Frye, Brittany Smith and Rasheta Butler will represent the Huskies in the relay and Caulfield will compete in the discus. Both events...
With the help of seven runs in the fifth and sixth innings and an eight-run eighth Sunday afternoon, Northern Illinois took down Ball State 18-8 at Ralph McKinzie Field during Senior Day. The three-game series rubber match win clinched the Huskies’ first appearance in the Mid-American Conference Tournament since 2008, and gave them their sixth...
The Northern Illinois track and field team scored 47 points, its highest-ever total in a Mid-American Conference Outdoor Championship meet, as it claimed eighth place on Saturday at the NIU Track & Field and Soccer Complex. “I think all of the ladies gave everything that they had on the track,” said NIU head coach Connie...
The Northern Illinois University softball team suffered a 2-0 setback to Miami (OH) Thursday night in its second game of the 2011 Mid-American Conference Softball Tournament at Firestone Stadium in Akron, Ohio. The loss ends NIU’s run in the tournament. The Huskies, the No. 3 seed, finished the 2011 season with a 26-27 record. The...
The Northern Illinois track and field team is hosting the 2011 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships this weekend at the NIU Track and Field & Soccer Complex. The championships began this morning with the men’s hammer throw competition. Action begins at 11 a.m. Friday, May 13, with the 110-meter hurdles in the decathlon. The men’s high jump...
Northern Illinois University will host the 2011 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships from Thursday, May 12, through Saturday, May 14, at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex. Doors open to the public at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 12; the meet begins at 10 a.m. Doors open to the public at 10...
The Northern Illinois men’s golf team is prepared to begin its run at a Mid-American Conference championship at TPC River’s Bend. The first 36 holes of the season-ending tournament begin Friday morning in Maineville, Ohio. MAC programs compete against each other at various events throughout the season, and across the country, but this is the...
