NIU Today

Northern Illinois baseball will play pair of midweek tilts when it hosts UW-Milwaukee Tuesday afternoon and heads to Peoria to take on Bradley Wednesday evening. First pitch Tuesday is slated for 3:05 p.m., while the contest at Peoria’s O’Brien Field on Wednesday will start at 6 p.m. The Huskies are coming off a three-game series...

Northern Illinois baseball drew even with Toledo in the bottom of the sixth inning, 3-3, to send the game to extra innings. But the Rockets drew first blood in the top of the 10th to clinch the victory, 4-3. Jordan Huffman and Jeff Zimmerman both finished 3-for-4 at the plate. “We did a good job...

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...

Scattering nine hits and playing errorless baseball defensively, the Northern Illinois baseball squad fell to Toledo on a chilly and frigid Friday afternoon, 7-3. “Taylor Nawrocki did a nice job on the mound for us and he got up in the pitch count a bit, but he was throwing it pretty good,” said head coach...

Northern Illinois overcame two large deficits against Miami (Ohio), sweeping the Redhawks by a 13-11 score. The Huskies combined for 19 hits in the game, including seven extra base hits and Troy White was 4-for-6 with five RBI, a homerun and two runs. The Huskies opened the scoring with a single run in the first...

With both teams trading blows throughout the game and tied 7-7 in the top of the ninth inning, senior Troy White drove in the game-winning run with his third sacrifice fly of the game to lift Northern Illinois over Miami (Ohio), 8-7. Taylor Nawrocki pitched eight innings, striking out four with only two walks in...

The Northern Illinois baseball team hosted its final home contest of an eight-game homestand Tuesday afternoon on a windy, frigid and chilly spring day at Ralph McKinzie Field, falling 22-3 to Illinois State. Zach Badgley and Alex Klonowski combined for three shutout innings for the Huskies in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings on the...

The NIU baseball team returns to the diamond Tuesday afternoon when it takes on perennial Missouri Valley Conference foe Illinois State at 3:05 p.m. The Huskies have played the Redbirds each of the last 10 seasons and are 6-4 against ISU in that time frame. “Illinois State is going to be a good opponent. They’re...

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...

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...

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...

Senior Jake Hermsen hurled eight scoreless innings, including four perfect stanzas, to clinch the series for Northern Illinois against Akron, 8-2. The Huskies totaled 11 hits in the contest, including a three-run home run by Troy White in the bottom of the fourth. “We came out with a new attitude today and that was big...