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Northern Illinois surged back in the top of the ninth inning from a four run deficit and attempted to tie the contest, but a play at home plate from right field prevented the Huskies from tying and the Broncos won the contest, 5-4. “Their pitcher was throwing pretty good today and only allowed two hits...

For the first time in 59 games, the Northern Illinois baseball team was shutout Sunday afternoon against Central Michigan, falling, 7-0. Central Michigan pitcher Dietrech Enns hurled a three-hit, 118 pitch complete game. “Enns pitched a heck of a game for Central Michigan and we have to give him credit for his performance,” said head...

After a pair of midweek games, Northern Illinois baseball returns to the road for a Mid-American Conference series at Eastern Michigan beginning Friday and concluding on Sunday. The Huskies are 5-10 in MAC play this season and are 3-3 (.500) in their last six conference contests. With midweek games being dominated by non-conference opponents, the...

What looked like an inevitable rain postponement in weather forecasts, turned into a cool, summer evening in April at O’Brien Field as Northern Illinois took on Bradley. With a 3-2 lead in the eighth in favor of the Huskies, the Braves homered twice over left field to defeat the Huskies, 4-3. Pitcher “Eli (Anderson) gave...

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...

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...

Northern Illinois closed its series against Kent State Sunday afternoon, coming back from 3-0 deficit to tie the Golden Flashes 3-3 in the top of the seventh. But Kent State scored two runs in the bottom half of the inning to defeat the Huskies, 5-3. Junior Jordan Huffman was 3-for-4 at the plate with a...

Facing a no-hitter, the Northern Illinois baseball team surged in the top of the ninth inning with three hits and two runs to tie No. 24 Texas Tech, 2-2. However, the Red Raiders had their own surge in the bottom -half of the inning to defeat the Huskies, 3-2. “We’re playing with a lot of...

Trailing 9-1 after six innings to No. 18 St. John’s, the Northern Illinois baseball team sent the game to extra innings, scoring seven runs in the eighth and ninth innings. However, NIU would fall 11-9 in the bottom of 10th on a walk off home run by SJU’s Matt Wessinger. Sophomore Alex Klonowski (Kearney, Mo.)...

In a pitching duel, No. 4 seed Northern Illinois was unable to muster enough runs against Rob Wendzicki this morning as No. 5 seed Eastern Michigan won 4-2 in the first round of the 2011 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament at VA Memorial Stadium. NIU (29-26) starter Zach Oates and Wendzicki (6-5) faced each other in...

A seven-run second inning sparked Northern Illinois to a 20-5 win Tuesday afternoon over Chicago State at Ralph McKinzie Field. The Huskies had trailed 3-2 entering the second, but the deficit didn’t last long. Tom Kotis started the frame with a bunt single and stole second. Alex Jones reached on an error to move Kotis to third,...