Trevor Stocking went up to bat and knew he had to make immediate adjustments. It was a similar story for every other player in Saturday's NIU doubleheader over St. Xavier, as 55 mph wind gusts picked up sand from the infield. For Stocking, though, the...

After a disappointing defensive performance Saturday night, NIU softball coach Donna Martin didn't say much to her team. The Huskies gave up 13 runs & six unearned. Perhaps the silent treatment ignited the Huskies' efforts, as the NIU defense came...

NIU women's tennis coach Laura Scott knows this weekend is a big one for the Huskies, as they face Bowling Green and Ball State. The Huskies will face Bowling Green at 1 p.m. Friday and Ball State at 1 p.m. Saturday. Scott put her team through a concentrated...

NIU softball coach Donna Martin knows that hitting comes and goes in softball. This weekend she hopes her suffering offense can put a few hits together against Mid-American Conference rival Ball State University. The Huskies are set to play BSU three...

One sport, one city, two teams. As the baseball season began on Sunday, so did the debate & who will finish better, the Cubs or White Sox? Every year about this time, fans of the two teams begin arguing about why their team will finish with the better...

After breaking a four-game losing streak Tuesday against Wisconsin-Milwaukee, NIU baseball coach Dave Schrage noticed how confident his Huskies were. The new-found confidence carried to the next game on Wednesday, and the Huskies walked away with a win...

Jon Perlman and the NIU men's tennis team have had this weekend circled on their calendar since the beginning of the season. With defending Mid-American Conference champions Western Michigan coming to town Saturday, the Huskies face their biggest test...

Huskies baseball coach Dave Schrage has noticed a difference in his team the last two games. In NIU's victory over Illinois-Chicago on Wednesday, Schrage saw the Huskies being more confident than they were in their nine previous games. They have won their...

NIU basketball coach Rob Judson might not yet know who incoming recruit Chris Lawson is, but he recently had a close encounter with the 6-foot-5-inch guard. The NIU-bound Lawson and recently named Huskie Judson both took in the action of the Chicago Public...

An NIU baseball team that recently struggled with its bats has found them suddenly coming alive in the last two games. Hitting is considered contagious, and the Huskies found that out against Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Tuesday and Illinois-Chicago on Wednesday....

NIU's softball team has struggled to produce runs for most of the season, and in a doubleheader against Northwestern on Wednesday, the outcome was no different. The Big Ten opponent proved to be too much as the Huskies dropped the first game 3-0. In Game...

Streaming past the pitcher's feet and beyond the outstretched arms of the second baseman, NIU's Trevor Stocking advanced the game-winning run in the ninth inning Tuesday to get the Huskies out of a four-game slide with a 9-8 win over the Wisconsin-Milwaukee...