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NIU’s winless streak continues

By David Lance | April 1, 1991

The more things change, the more they ... well, you know the rest of that axiom, and by now, so must the NIU baseball team. As days become weeks, the Huskies' dubious, season-long winless streak continues to grow and rankle. Last weekend, the Huskies...

Seniors face future challenges

By Roger Moreano | March 27, 1991

With this season marking the swan song for seniors on the NIU men's basketball team, the main focus for these seniors is now concentrated on graduation, and life after NIU. Just as these seniors had goals for a "season to remember" with hard work on the...

Gymnasts find loss hard to ignore

By Jennifer Hutchins | March 27, 1991

More than a single thorn would be necessary to mar the otherwise rosy season of the NIU women's gymnastic team. But that one thorn can still be difficult to ignore. NIU headed into its last regular season meet—the Mississippi Valley Championships—with...

Awards pile up for NIU’s Foss

By Steve Dennis | March 27, 1991

March, 1991 will certainly become a permanent fixture in the mind of NIU women's basketball guard Lisa Foss. Just 18 days after Foss was named the Player of the Year in the North Star Conference and one day after the senior collected All-NWIT honors,...

Aurora-NIU game changed

By Gregory Janicki | March 27, 1991

After going winless in its first nine games, the NIU baseball team has waited long enough to taste its first victory. NIU found out Tuesday it would have to wait at least one more day. After observing the poor-playing surface of their home field Monday...

Huskies’ home opener cancelled

By David Lance | March 26, 1991

The NIU baseball team originally had March 26 circled on its calendar; it was to be the day the Huskies would play the Aurora Spartans in their first home game of the year. The Huskies will still play the Spartans on Tuesday - but at Aurora's Snell Field....

Soccer standout shoots for new goal

By Hyun Moon | March 26, 1991

The NIU soccer team's all-time second-leading goal scorer hopes to make some different types of goals come next fall. Willy Roy Jr., a senior who led the 1990 soccer team to the Mid-Continent Conference crown, decided to come back to NIU for graduate...

Huskies NOT practicing yet

By Wes Swietek | March 26, 1991

The sight of pigskins flying through the air is coming back to DeKalb soon, and not just because it's tornado season. The Huskies' football team is set to return to the field (or in NIU's case, the carpet) to prepare for the coming season starting on...

Season-ending slump causes Huskie unrest

By Steve Dennis | March 26, 1991

Inner unrest began to set in among the NIU women's basketball team, and it started to show during last weekend's NWIT. After compiling a 23-5 ledger throughout the majority of the season, NIU dropped three-of-four games before the NWIT even started. Given...

NIU edges ND, takes 7th in NWIT

By Steve Dennis | March 25, 1991

AMARILLO, Texas—With an 84-82 squeaker over Notre Dame Saturday, the NIU women's basketball team not only scored a "w" in the win column but captured a season-ending moral triumph. Normally a team wouldn't be all that content with a seventh-out-of-eight...

Men’s tennis squad dismantles EMU

By Hyun Moon | March 25, 1991

Greg O'Neil might have played himself right out of the No.1 spot last Saturday. Although the NIU men's tennis team (9-8) dismantled Eastern Michigan (3-10) 7-2 at the NIU Recreation Center, O'Neil ended up in the wrong side of a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 score. The...

NIU softball team takes 2 in tourney

By Jennifer Hutchins | March 25, 1991

Opponents were not the only thing the NIU softball team needed to overcome en route to its 2-2 split at the Indiana University Tournament this weekend. NIU had an injury-riddled lineup and detrimental weather to overcome. The Huskies started the tournament...