This Week in Huskie Sports: April 17 to April 23

DeKALB – Huskie baseball’s trip to Muncie to face the MAC leading Ball State University Cardinals and a pair of MAC Championships highlight another busy week in NIU sports.

BASEBALL

Tuesday, April 18: vs. Northwestern University, 3:30 p.m.

DeKalb, Ill. / Ralph McKinzie Field 

Live Stream: NIU All-Access

Wednesday, April 19: vs. Illinois State University, 3 p.m.

DeKalb, Ill. / Ralph McKinzie Field

Live Stream: NIU All-Access

Friday, April 21: at Ball State University, 2 p.m.

Muncie, Ind. / First Merchants Ballpark Complex

Live Stats: SideArm Stats

Saturday, April 22: at Ball State University, noon

Muncie, Ind. / First Merchants Ballpark Complex 

Live Stats: SideArm Stats

Sunday, April 23: at Ball State University, 11 a.m.

Muncie, Ind. / First Merchants Ballpark Complex 

Live Stats: SideArm Stats

The NIU baseball team(6-24, 3-9 MAC) will play two home games this week. The first will be against Northwestern University (5-22) on Tuesday and the second will be against Illinois State University (10-17) on Wednesday. The Huskies will then travel to Muncie to take on the MAC leading Ball State University Cardinals (23-9, 10-2 MAC) for a three-game series over the weekend. 

SOFTBALL

Wednesday, April 19: at DePaul University, 2 p.m.

Chicago, Ill. / Cacciatore Stadium

Live Stream: StatBroadcast

Friday, April 21: at University of Toledo, 2 p.m.

Toledo, Ohio. / Scott Park

Live Stats: SideArm Stats

Saturday, April 22: at University of Toledo, noon

Toledo, Ohio. / Scott Park

Live Stats: SideArm Stats

Saturday, April 22: at University of Toledo, 2 p.m.

Toledo, Ohio. / Scott Park

Live Stats: SideArm Stats 

The NIU softball team (18-18, 8-6 MAC) will play four road games this week. The Huskies will first travel to Chicago to take on DePaul University (10-23). They will then head to Ohio to take on the University of Toledo (14-21, 7-10 MAC) in a three game series over the weekend. 

MEN’S TENNIS

Monday, April 17: vs. Saint Louis University, 11 a.m.

DeKalb, Ill. / Nelson Tennis Center at Chick Evans Field House

Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23: Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship

Kalamazoo, Mich.

NIU men’s tennis (12-9, 4-5 MAC) will host Saint Louis University Billikens on Monday, April 17 at 11 a.m. This event will be held in the Nelson Tennis Center at the Chick Evans Field House. With the season coming to an end after facing the Billikens, the Huskies will travel to Kalamazoo to play in the MAC championship.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Friday, April 21: at Miami University, 12:00 p.m.

Oxford, Ohio. / Riverside Athletic Club 

Sunday, April 23: vs. Western Michigan.

DeKalb, Ill. / Chick Evans Field House

NIU women’s tennis travels to Oxford for its matchup with Miami University for the first time this season. Miami drafted NIU by a score of 5-2 in the teams’ last meeting last April. Following the away game at Miami, NIU will return home to take on MAC rival Western Michigan University for their second time this season. WMU downed NIU 6-1 in its last meeting on April 2. 

TRACK

Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22 at Baylor University 

Waco, Texas / Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium

Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Urbana-Champaign / Demirjian Park

NIU women’s track will travel to Texas for the Michael Johnson Invitational and to Urbana-Champaign for the Gary Wieneke Invitational this weekend. The Huskies will be returning from last week’s trip to Azusa, California after the Bryan Clay Invitational.

WOMEN’S GOLF 

Friday, April 21 to Sunday, April 23: MAC Conference Championship 

Kalamazoo, Mich. / Kalamazoo Country Club

Live Stats: GolfStat

With the spring competition season wrapping up, NIU women’s golf heads to Kalamazoo for the MAC Championship – an all day event from Friday to Sunday. The Huskies’ last tournament was a seventh place finish at the Riverside Classic. Jasmine Ly had NIU’s best individual finish, tying for fourth place. 

MEN’S GOLF 

Friday, April 21 to Sunday, April 23: at Ohio State University (Robert Kepler Intercollegiate) 

Columbus, Ohio / OSU Scarlet Course

Live Stats: GolfStat

NIU men’s golf head to Columbus, Ohio to take on Ohio State University in the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate. The tournament is an all day event starting on Friday and going until Sunday. The Huskies are coming off a 12th place finish at the Mason Rudolph Championship.

Sophomore Ben Sluzas led the way, finishing tied for 33rd place with a score of 216.