Coming off of a second place finish in the Robert Morris Showcase, the Huskies earned a split with No. 15 Northern Michigan over the weekend.

NIU fell 9-2 while committing 13 penalties.

Head coach Jim Sullivan said the Huskies deserved to lose the way they did.

“No player had heart tonight, and no player looked like they even wanted to be here,” Sullivan said. “When a whole team is like that, you deserve what you get, and we deserved what happened to us.”

Taking their coach’s words to heart, the Huskies came back on Saturday and beat NMU 3-2.

Northern Michigan took an early 2-0 lead in the first period, but NIU picked up a power play goal from Peter Alfano and a Mike Sible goal within minutes.

With seven minutes left, Nick Messing netted the game winning goal on another power play, giving NIU redemption from Friday.

The team will play next after Thanksgiving when they travel to take on Toledo. NIU is currently 9-11-0-1 on the season.

Other Club News

• Heading into its weekend tournament, the NIU paintball team was ranked No. 3 in the nation.

After finishing 18th, however, the team took a hit in the standings.

The Midwest North Event #2 at Stinger Paintball in Kewaskum, Wis., proved to be the Achilles heel for the Huskies; the team fell to No. 7 in the collegepaintball.com Class AA rankings.

The Michigan Wolverines won the tournament with the Illinois State Redbirds finishing for second and the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers placing third.

For the Huskies, this is their worst finish of the season, ending a streak of back-to-back second-place finishes.