IN PICTURES: Huskie Invitational kicks off volleyball season

By Sean Reed, Photo Editor|August 28, 2022

Junior setter Ella Mihacevich celebrates a point scored in the team’s final set vs. South Dakota State on Friday. (Sean Reed | Northern Star)

Plush toys with creepy doll faces sit on a table. The Dark Art and Oddities Con took place in Altgeld Hall. (Yari Tapia | Northern Star)

Get eerie with Dark Art and Oddities Con

A bowl filled with mac and cheese sits on a counter. This 25 to 30 minute mac and cheese includes four kinds of cheeses. (Northern Star Graphic)

Cooking With the Star: Four-cheese mac and cheese

NIU senior tight end Grayson Barnes (81) is lifted up in the endzone by redshirt senior offensive lineman J.J Lippe (79) and celebrates in the endzone after catching a touchdown pass during the second quarter. Barnes had one catch for the game and it came on the touchdown pass. (Tim Dodge | Northern Star)

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A Ukrainian garden salad sits in a bowl. This fresh meal comes together in 15 to 20 minutes. (Northern Star Graphic)

Cooking With the Star: Ukrainian garden salad

NIU veterans and military students stand as they salute the flags during the Veterans Day flag ceremony. Veterans Day originally was called Armistice Day to celebrate the agreement between Allied nations and Germany to end World War I. (Nia Jackson | Northern Star)

Gallery: Veterans Day flag ceremony and luncheon

Plush toys with creepy doll faces sit on a table. The Dark Art and Oddities Con took place in Altgeld Hall. (Yari Tapia | Northern Star)

Get eerie with Dark Art and Oddities Con

NIU senior tight end Grayson Barnes (81) is lifted up in the endzone by redshirt senior offensive lineman J.J Lippe (79) and celebrates in the endzone after catching a touchdown pass during the second quarter. Barnes had one catch for the game and it came on the touchdown pass. (Tim Dodge | Northern Star)

Gallery: Huskies defeat Akron in midweek MACtion

NIU veterans and military students stand as they salute the flags during the Veterans Day flag ceremony. Veterans Day originally was called Armistice Day to celebrate the agreement between Allied nations and Germany to end World War I. (Nia Jackson | Northern Star)

Gallery: Veterans Day flag ceremony and luncheon

Junior Nataly Ninova returns the ball during her doubles match against Marquette University on the second day of the Huskie Invitational. Ninova was undefeated during her singles matches Friday and Saturday as well as with her doubles partner senior Erika Dimitriev. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

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Pumpkins sit on the grass for the decorated pumpkin competition with some labeled for the place they finished. The Sycamore Pumpkin Festival began back in 1956 and had over 1000 entries in the Lions Club Decorated Pumpkin Display this year. (Ethan Rodriguez | Northern Star)

Gallery: 63rd Annual Sycamore Pumpkin Fest

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