NIU Today

Starting 90 minutes late with a rain delay and trailing in the bottom of the ninth to instate Big Ten foe Northwestern, Northern Illinois battled back to break a shutout and attempt its first walkoff win of the season. The Huskies could not overcome the deficit and fell to the Wildcats, 2-1. “We saw a...

Delayed by rain for a half hour and in frigid weather, Northern Illinois baseball fell to Eastern Michigan, 7-5, to even the series at 1-1. Huskie Alex Jones finished the game 3-for-4 at the plate with three RBI, a double and a run. “We played great defensively again today and again we made some really...

Hurling eight innings and only surrendering two hits, Taylor Nawrocki led the Huskies to a 1-0 victory over Eastern Michigan. Nawrocki struckout seven and walked only two in his second combined shutout of 2012. It was the first time this season the Eagles had been shutout. Defense was the name of the game as both...

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...

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...

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...

Following his spectacular weekend that led to the Huskies first-ever sweep of Miami (Ohio), Troy White was the named the Mid-American Conference’s West Division Player of the Week. It is his first weekly honor of the season and the third of his career. The Chicago native finished the weekend 7-for-16 at the plate (.438) with...

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...

Due to persistent rain in the area, Saturday’s NIU baseball game versus Miami (Ohio) has been postponed and will be played at 11 a.m. Sunday, April 15, as a doubleheader. Local weather forecasts for tomorrow show partly cloudy skies with wind and high of 82 degrees. Future updates on game changes will be posted on...

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 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...