Nothing went right for the NIU baseball team Wednesday.

Whether it was hitting or the team’s pitching and defense, everything went against the Huskies.

NIU ended up with more errors than hits in a 12-2 blowout loss to Valparaiso.

“This was just a real bad day all around. The result is what it was, it was an earned result with the way we played,” said NIU head coach Ed Mathey. “I don’t know why we couldn’t get anything going offensively. We just didn’t have a good approach with that pitcher.”

It was all downhill from the first inning for the Huskies (15-28, 6-11 MAC). Starting pitcher Kyle Glancy walked Dan DeBruin to lead off the game and followed by allowing a single to Kyle Muhlsteff. Designated hitter Matt Lenski plated DeBruin with a double, and both Muhlsteff and Lenski scored on Andrew Quinnette’s RBI single, giving the Panthers a 3-0 lead right off the bat.

Glancy would leave the game in the fifth inning after giving up seven earned runs on 10 hits. The NIU pitching staff didn’t get any help from the defense, who committed five errors in the game.

Valparaiso (21-19, 7-8 Horizon) starter Tyler Deetjen cruised through five innings, allowing an earned run and striking out five before being lifted. NIU wasn’t able to get to the Crusader bullpen, which held the Huskies to one run the final four innings.

The Huskies only totaled three hits all afternoon.

“We have to have a better approach as a team,” said NIU center fielder Pat Minogue, who walked and scored a run and also made a diving catch in center to rob Quinnette in the third inning. “We have to focus on just hitting the ball up the middle, hitting the ball hard the other way. If we get back to that we’ll be OK.”

It’s been a rough couple of days for the NIU offense, who totaled only six runs in a doubleheader at UW-Milwaukee Tuesday in addition to yesterday’s effort.

“I’m a little concerned,” Mathey said. “Our offense had been running at a pretty good pace there for a while. We’ve got some things going on with some guys that aren’t fully healthy, but we still need to do a better job than this.”