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Tribute for ‘Deacon’ Davis to be a success

By Jenan Diab | April 4, 2003

The 10th-annual African-American Leadership Conference will come to a close today with the presentation of the Fanny Ruth Scholarship Award and a tribute to founder of the NIU Chance Program, McKinley "Deacon" Davis Jr. The tribute will begin today during...

Sexuality, culture and race highlight discussion

By Courtney Cavanaugh | April 4, 2003

About 20 listeners gathered last night in the Holmes Student Center to take part in a discussion about sexual orientation and race issues. Alice Y. Hom, director of the Intercultural Community Center at Occidental College in California and co-editor of...

Arena limits graduation tickets

By Megan Rodriguez | April 4, 2003

"Pomp and Circumstance" may play a little louder this year in comparison to years past. Graduation, which will be held at the Convocation Center this year, will not be much different though the location will be much bigger. Joe Coots, marketing manager...

Softball game called becuase of weather

By Jason Watt | April 4, 2003

Being down 7-0 in the third inning against visiting DePaul didn't hurt the NIU softball team. The reason it didn't was because the weather was as bad as the defense of NIU (14-10). The game was called by the home plate umpire in the top of the third inning...

Greek Week talent show canceled

By Aacia Hussain | April 4, 2003

The Showtime at the Apollo talent show, which was slated for Saturday as the last event for Greek Week, has been canceled. A lack of interest and not enough material to fill the required time slots for the show justified the need for the event to be called...

World music performs for the whole family

By Samantha Henwood | April 4, 2003

NIU's School of Music will present the bi-annual World Music Concert showcasing instruments such as a flamenco guitar, a chinese zither, a gong ensemble and many more exotic instruments. "We put this on once every semester, and it's always a wonderful...

What’s up with today’s weather?

By Aacia Hussain | April 4, 2003

A decade of disaster was revisited Thursday night as the infamous anti-war activist Bernardine Dohrn spoke on behalf of the atrocities that she witnessed during the Vietnam War. Dohrn served as an active participant in the radical anti-Vietnam War movement...

Deana Carter

By Jessica King | April 3, 2003

Deana Carter returns with down-home sweetness, but goes commercial with "I'm Just a Girl." The country singer who hit it big with "Did I Shave My Legs for This?" in 1998 has faltered in the last few years, including suffering a DUI conviction, but this...

More fake news …

By Marcus Leshock | April 3, 2003

Weekender critic retracts review, likes movie In an unprecedented turn of events, Weekender reporter Casey Toner announced the retraction of his review of the film "Darkness Falls." Toner announced the news at a press conference on Wednesday to a room...

NIU fights off the heat

By Adam Zolmierski | April 3, 2003

Mark Badgley is only a freshman but he showed the composure of a upperclassmen to pull out his fourth save of the year in NIU's 5-4 win over UIC Wednesday at Ralph McKinzie Field.

Badgley came in the ninth inning with a 5-3 lead before allowing hits to the first two batters and throwing the ball into center field on a pickoff attempt, putting both runners in scoring position.

After an RBI groundout by UIC's J.P. Carey closed the margin to one run, Badgley got two key groundouts to give the Huskies the victory.

The Huskies (15-9) ended UIC's (11-10) nine-game winning streak. NIU has won 11 of its last 13 games.

"UIC is a pretty good ballclub; they're not gonna just walk away," NIU coach Ed Mathey said. "That's why closers in the Major Leagues get the money they do. They have to continue to make pitches in those situations."

NIU center fielder Jeremy Busch reached base in all five plate appearances with three hits and two walks. He led off the bottom of the eighth frame with a triple into the left-center field gap and eventually scored on a Joe Mazzuca sacrifice fly. The run proved to be the game winner.

"I was just looking to get on base," Busch said. "I was looking for a pitch to drive. The first pitch was a strike on the outside corner with a fastball and I think [UIC pitcher Eric Carlson] tried going outside again and he brought it over the middle of the plate and I just got my hands extended on it and drove it."

Mazzuca went 1-for-3 with three RBIs, including a two-run double in the first inning and the game winner in the eighth.

"Right now it's very important," Mazucca said of his game-deciding RBI. "At the time it was just a good insurance run for us to have. Then Badgley came in and he does what a typical closer does, makes it very interesting."

In the fifth inning, Santoro knocked in Joe Mazucca with a sacrifice fly and pinch hitter Scott Simon drove in another run with a single up the middle to put the Huskies up 4-2 at the time.

With NIU up 2-0 in the third inning, Huskie starter Joe Piekarz found himself in a bases loaded, nobody out jam.

UIC second baseman Bryan Russo sent a lazy fly to right field where Mike Santoro dropped the ball allowing one run to cross home plate. However, he was able to force the runner at second. Piekarz then got out of the inning with the damage minimized, serving up an inning ending double-play grounder.

"I'm not happy with the way we played at all today," UIC coach Mike Dee said. "We just didn't get a big hit when we needed it today."

Wheeler tries to keep invisible

By Greg Feltes | April 3, 2003

A part of Bob Wheeler hopes that you don't know who he is or what he does for NIU. For that ignorance means that he has done his job well. "You have to be able to do a number of things at once in this job because so many things come at you from many different...

NIU faces hot DePaul team

By Jason Watt | April 3, 2003

After losing three of its last four games, the NIU softball team will try to get back on track in a doubleheader against DePaul at 3 p.m. today at Mary Bell Field. DePaul, who is ranked ninth in the nation, defeated No. 1 UCLA earlier this year. DePaul's...

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