Defecting Association of Mid-Continent Universities Conference member Southwest Missouri State won its last men's tennis title despite a stiff challenge from NIU. The Huskies, playing in their first AMCU tournament, came close in Saturday's final against...

The weather is hot, and the NIU men's tennis team is streaking—as in seven consecutive dual-meet victories. DePaul University suffered the most recent loss to the Huskies. The 7-2 win gives the Huskies a 16-11 season record before competing in the Association...

Sweden rules the world in tennis today, and fittingly, a Swede is ruling NIU men's tennis. Junior Mats Persson has firmly established himself as the No. 1 NIU tennis player from the beginning of the year and has performed to a 20-12 mark heading into...

NIU alumni have been forgotten for years, but now the Huskie athletic department has begun a full operation to win their support. All NIU coaches have been occupying the Huskie Stadium press box in an attempt to contact former NIU athletes for donations....

NIU's men's tennis team overcame many obstacles to notch a successful weekend at Northern Iowa Univeristy. The Huskies came away with a four-match win streak and a 15-11 record. The cold and windy conditions forced play indoors. NIU faced Wisconsin-LaCrosse...

The good and the bad will surface in the NIU men's tennis team's only outdoor home meet of the season today at 3 p.m. Today's meet will "almost positively" be held at the Stadium Courts, which is located north of Huskie Stadium. The meet will be held...

Even a rain-forced postponement can't dampen the enthusiasm of the NIU men's tennis team. Friday's rains coupled with more rain in the forecast for March 31 and the lack of available indoor facilities forced Illinois State and NIU to postpone Saturday's...

It seems as if there's more than flat lands in Iowa these days. And tennis is one thing NIU men's tennis coach Charles Merzbacher knows exists. This past weekend left the Huskies in a state of shock having suffered three straight shutouts. Drake University...

First-year NIU men's tennis coach Charles Merzbacher was feeling pretty darn good after his Huskies' 5-4 indoor victory over Southern Illinois University Saturday at NIU's Recreation Building. Of course the victory and the gutty performance of his Huskies...

Although its only mid-February, the NIU men's and women's tennis team have been busy competing—indoors, of course. For Coach Patty Groth's team, things went well last weekend, despite Sunday's 5-4 loss to Southern Illinois University. On Friday, the...

The NIU men's and women's tennis teams will both be hitting the courts this weekend. Coach Charles Merzbacher and his men's squad head to Milwaukee to face Marquette today at 3:00. On Saturday morning the Huskies face off against the University of Illinois-Chicago...

If first-year men's tennis coach Charles Merzbacher gets his way, the Huskies will be a national power in five years. Fresh out of the pro circuit, Merzbacher was hired as the men's coach in the summer of 1989. Although he has no previous coaching experience,...