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Baseball squad readies for hopeful 2nd season

By John Dietz | January 28, 1992

Winter training starts Wednesday for what should be the beginning of an exciting second season of NIU baseball. When the Huskies finally play in DeKalb on March 31 against the University of Northern Iowa, they will have spent their first 21 games on the...

Notre Dame tragedy hits NIU, too

By Brian Wiencek | January 28, 1992

They were only four miles from their Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind., on their way home from a swim meet at Northwestern. The Irish women's swimming team was traveling east in the middle of a snow storm and high winds on I-80 early Friday morning....

2nd-half key for Vols

By Todd McMahon | January 27, 1992

It was as different as night and day, or as Tennessee head coach Pat Head Summitt put it, "it was two completely different halves." The Lady Volunteers (12-2) extinguished any hopes of an NIU (9-6) upset Friday night with a furious 11-0 run to open the...

Tennessee victorious in the war

By David Lance | January 27, 1992

Like all fine, well-trained regiments, Tennessee's women's basketball team doesn't flinch when faced with a threat. So when the fourth-ranked Lady Volunteers found themselves down one point at halftime to NIU in hostile Chick Evans Field House Friday...

Hanania paces diving team with two third-place ribbons

By Brian Wiencek | January 27, 1992

While NIU's swimming teams enjoyed the weekend off, the NIU men's and women's diving teams did not fare as well as coach Jeff Symons would have liked against numerous diving squads—most of which came out of the Big 10 Conference—at the Illini Classic...

WIU drops NIU despite Oldendorf’s career-day

By Wes Swietek | January 27, 1992

The NIU men's basketball team had some big shoes to fill with the absence of leading scorer Brian Molis Saturday at Western Illinois. Seven-one sophomore center Steve Oldendorf stepped in with a career performance. But it wasn't enough as the Mid-Continent...

Thimgan, Lebo lead gymnasts in opener

By Laura Higgins | January 27, 1992

Chalk one up for the NIU women's gymnastics team. And, chalk one up for senior tumbler Lori Lebo who set a new school record on vault after hitting for a 9.75, and breaking the previous mark of 9.70. The Huskies hosted their first meet on Saturday and...

Tennis squad falls, 5-2

By John Dietz | January 27, 1992

Defending Mid-Continent Conference tennis champions, NIU, dropped a 5-2 decision to the University of Cincinnati at the Recreation Center Sunday. The Huskies came out swinging with their only two victories in the first three matches. In a true crowd-pleaser,...

NIU, WIU looking to move up

By Wes Swietek | January 24, 1992

As the Mid-Continent Conference race starts to take shape, two squads looking to move up from the middle of the pack square off Saturday at Macomb. Coach Brian Hammel's Huskies (3-3, 5-10) take on the Western Illinois Leathernecks (2-2, 6-7) in a 7:30...

Young wrestlers pin down experience

By Fred Konrath | January 24, 1992

Although the record of the NIU wrestling team isn't overwhelming (1-6) so far, some of the competition has been. And the schedule doesn't get any easier as the Huskies travel to Champaign this weekend to take on Big Ten foes Illinois and Purdue. The one...

Gymnasts set for home routine

By Laura Higgins | January 24, 1992

It's home-opener time, and the NIU women's gymnastics team is ready to put on a show. The Huskies will make their debut tomorrow at Chick Evans Field House when they host the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Valparaiso University and Winona State University....

NIU, Vols ready to duke it out

By David Lance | January 24, 1992

First, the principals. In this corner, fighting out of Knoxville, Tenn., wearing the orange-with-white-trim trunks, ranked No. 4 in all polls, a record of 11-2 with their last win a 108-26 knockout of Florida Atlantic, the defending champion of the world,...