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The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team looks to close its fall season as the Huskies host the ITA Second Chance Regional Tournament this weekend at the Boylan Tennis Center in Rockford, Ill. NIU will face off against the likes of Chicago State, Illinois, Michigan State, Milwaukee, and Wisconsin, as well as MAC foe Western Michigan....
The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team finished its weekend at Western Michigan’s Fall MAC Invitational with five wins Saturday. Facing Mid-American Conference opponents Ball State, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Toledo and host WMU, the Huskies came away from the weekend with six victories with a youthful team composed of six underclassmen and two seniors. “We...
The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team hits the road for the first time of the season this weekend as they travel to Kalamazoo, Mich., for the Fall MAC Invitational. The Huskies will match up against familiar Mid-American Conference foes Ball State, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Toledo and Western Michigan. The team is coming off a...
The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team closed the NIU Invite Saturday evening and showed some flashes of potential for the spring season as Haley Dekkinga took the “Black” consolation draw. Dekkinga finished a day earlier by winning the Huskie doubles draw with partner Nelle Youel. The Allegan, Mich. native finished the weekend 2-1, defeating Eastern...
Northern Illinois freshman Axel Lagerlof capped off his first season with the Huskies by being named Mid-American Conference Newcomer of the Year, announced today by the conference office. This is the second-straight year that a Huskie has won the award, with Maksym Bartiuk winning the honor last year. “It’s a great honor for Axel,” said...
Northern Illinois sophomore Maksym Bartiuk capped off his second spring season by being named to the All-MAC First Team, announced by the conference office. The postseason honor is Bartiuk’s third in his young career after being named to the First Team last season, as well as earning the MAC Newcomer of the Year award a...
The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team will begin Mid-American Conference play this weekend with a pair of road matches. The Huskies will travel to Eastern Michigan to open MAC play on Friday before wrapping up the weekend at Toledo on Saturday. Both matches are scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. CT. The Huskies (2-8) return...
The Northern Illinois men’s tennis team will play three home matches this weekend at the Boylan Tennis Center in Rockford, Ill. The Huskies will open Mid-American Conference play Friday, April 1, against Western Michigan at 1 p.m. and will also face Chicago State at 5 p.m. Friday. NIU will wrap up the weekend hosting Drake at...
Coming off a successful four-match spring break trip, the Northern Illinois men’s tennis team faces its last tune-up before beginning conference play at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, when the Huskies will take the short trip south to Peoria, Ill., to play Bradley at the David Markin Tennis Courts. NIU (8-8) was in Orlando, Fla., last...
The Northern Illinois men’s tennis team completed its four-match spring break trip to Florida on Tuesday. The Huskies went 4-0 on the trip, defeating Siena, Weber International, Oklahoma Baptist and Youngstown State, to improve to 8-8 on the season. NIU was originally scheduled to play just one match on its Florida trip but picked up...
After being away from competition for two weeks, the Northern Illinois women’s tennis team (1-6) is back in action this weekend, hosting Western Illinois and Northern Iowa at the Boylan Tennis Center in Rockford, Ill. NIU welcomes WIU at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 5, followed by UNI on Sunday, March 6, with matches to start at...
In its only dual meet of the weekend, the Northern Illinois men’s tennis team (4-7) travels today to Madison, Wis., to play the last of its Big Ten competition at Wisconsin. Matches are slated to begin at 6 p.m. at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. The Huskies are coming off a weekend split, dispatching St. Louis 5-1 last...
