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Senior goalkeeper Jordan Godsey (Ocean Springs, Miss./Ocean Springs) made a career-high nine saves and helped the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team hold top-ranked Akron scoreless for 72 minutes, but it wasn’t enough as the Zips pulled out a 2-0 victory in the Mid-American Conference Tournament Final on Sunday evening at FirstEnergy Stadium – Cub Cadet...

The Northern Illinois men’s soccer team will be the No. 2 seed and face No. 3 seed West Virginia in the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament at 3 p.m. CT Friday, Nov. 9, in Akron, Ohio. NIU clinched its place in the conference tournament last night (Nov. 2) with a 1-0 victory at Buffalo....

The Northern Illinois men’s soccer team saw its three-match shutout streak come to an end Tuesday afternoon with a 2-0 loss at Western Michigan. Goals from Jason Grant in the 78th minute and Erik Kelly in the 86th minute helped give the Broncos the victory. “I thought on the whole it was it was not...

Freshman forward Matt Pritchard (Omaha, Neb./Creighton Prep) scored the first goal of his collegiate career Wednesday night. But it wasn’t enough. The Northern Illinois men’s soccer team was unable to recover from a two-goal halftime deficit, falling to Valparaiso 2-1. Playing in rainy conditions for the third-straight match, Northern Illinois (3-8-2) fell behind by a...

Junior midfielder Sean Totsch (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) scored in the 83rd minute and freshman midfielder Gabe Christianson (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Kennedy) added an insurance marker in the 90th as the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team claimed a 2-0 victory over Iona on Sunday afternoon in the Northwestern Lakeside Classic. Senior goalkeeper Jordan Godsey (Ocean Springs, Miss./Ocean Springs)...

The Northern Illinois men’s soccer team fell to UW Milwaukee, 1-0, on Friday afternoon in the first match of the Northwestern Lakeside Classic. The match doubled as the annual LeWang Cup contest between the two schools, with the Panthers taking home the cup for the second consecutive season. Stuart McBain’s 33rd minute goal was all...

Football senior Chandler Harnish and volleyball senior Kristin Hoffman were named Northern Illinois University’s 2011 NIU Alumni Association Male and Female Athletes of the Year, headlining a list of 24 award winners honored Thursday night at DeKalb’s historic Egyptian Theatre during NIU’s third annual Victors Awards. The Victors saw NIU student-athletes, coaches, athletic department and...

Carried by three goals, two of which occurred in the first half, the Northern Illinois Huskies continued its postseason magic with a 3-0 victory over in-state foe Western Illinois. Sophomore Sean Totsch (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) scored the golden-goal for the second-consecutive match, giving NIU it’s 15th win of the season and tying the program record for...

UPDATE! The NIU men’s soccer team will host WIU at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, for first round action. — With 6:40 left in regulation time of the Mid-American Conference Championship match, sophomore Sean Totsch (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) became the hero for the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team, flicking a header into the back of the...

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 men’s soccer team continued its unbeaten preseason Tuesday as it defeated Indianapolis, 3-0, at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex. Freshman Isaac Kannah scored a pair of goals and sophomore James Stevenson added another in the win. “We have been working on a lot of difference pieces to the puzzle...

Following a victory over Olivet Nazarene in its exhibition opener, the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team will continue preseason action at 5:30 p.m.today when the Huskies host the University of Indianapolis at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex. Junior Mike Mascitti scored the lone goal in NIU’s 1-0 victory over Olivet Nazarene last...