Offense was the name of the game for the NIU baseball team this weekend.

The Huskies (8-12 overall, 3-0 MAC) pulled out a three-game sweep over Buffalo (8-12, 0-3) to improve to 15-0 against the Bulls. Head coach Ed Mathey is 8-0 against Buffalo.

The Huskies jumped out the gate with a 14-3 victory in the home-opener Friday. NIU scored six runs in the first inning, highlighted by freshman Troy White’s bases-clearing triple with one out.

The Huskies went on to total a season-high 17 hits on the night. White went 3-4 with four RBIs and two runs scored, while senior Pat Minogue hit 3-4 with three RBIs. Junior Chuck Lukanen earned the victory on the mound, pitching seven innings, giving up two runs on five hits.

“Our offense has been doing a great job the past six games or so,” Mathey said. “The kids are doing a great job seeing the ball and using the whole field.”

NIU continued its trend of striking first with four runs in the fourth inning of Saturday’s 9-3 victory.

Junior Jordin Hood paced the NIU offense, hitting 2-3 with a triple and three RBIs. Freshman Alex Jones also provided some offense, going 3-4 with a run scored.

Senior Nick Badgley improved to 2-1 on the season, throwing six innings on the mound, giving up two earned runs on eight hits.

The tides turned in the series finale Sunday as the Bulls jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the second inning. The Huskies responded in the third with Hood’s two-out, two-run double down the left field line.

NIU picked up two more runs in the sixth on Jones’ two-run double to left.

The Huskies brought pitcher Tom Zelasko on to get the save with the Huskies up 4-3 in the ninth inning. With two outs, third baseman Brian Randazzo hit a fly ball to left that spit out of Alex

Beckmann’s glove. Randazzo then went on to score the tying run on Rob Lawler’s double to right-center.

“Teams come out to play on Sundays,” Mathey said. “When you’re down 0-2, you’re going to scratch and claw. You don’t want to lose a series, and you don’t want to get swept.”

But the Bulls couldn’t contain the Huskies in the ninth as Zach Anderson walked Beckmann to lead off the inning. Joe Buonavolanto bunted the runner over to second to set up Dave Reynolds’ walk-off single to give the Huskies the 5-4 victory.

“You just have to focus and come in thinking one pitch at a time,” Reynolds said. “It’s a huge start for us in MAC play. We just have to keep it going.”