Today's games against Bradley will be the first NIU home games of the season. Last year, Huskies were 11-7 before their home debut, in which they lost a doubleheader to Illinois State. They finished last season with a 23-19 overall record and a 10-8 Mid...
The NIU men's and women's tennis teams did not et weather hamper play this weekend as both teams came away with victories. The men had three straight victories, bringing their record to 22-10, winning Friday and Saturday's St. Ambrose College Quadrangular,...
Because of the teams competing at Saturday's 18th Annual Marshall University Invitational, NIU men's golf coach Jack Pheanis was not the least bit upset with the 11th-place finish. "We're in the middle of the pack overall," Pheanis said. "But scorewise...
Martha Unger did not win the number-one spot at the NCAA Regionals in Alabama on Saturday, but she proved to everyone she belonged. The one problem is neither Martha nor Coach Bobbie Cesarek know exactly how well Unger placed in the meet. They did not...
Two former NIU standouts—wide receiver Curt Pardridge and offensive guard Dan Rosado—have signed standard National League free agent contracts with the Seattle Seahawks and Miami Dolphins, respectively. Both players survived until the final 45-man...
A meeting for anyone interested in competing on the 1987-88 NIU wrestling team will be held Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in Room 120 in Chick Evans Field House. Contact Coach Ed Vatch or Doug McClister at 753-9478 for more details.
The NIU baseball club won three of four games this weekend.
The club swept Rockford College Saturday 6-2, 8-2. Chris Chelich, who is also NIU's diving coach, pitched the first game and struck out 15 in seven innings for the victory.
On Sunday the Huskies split with Oakton Community College which entered the games with a 14-1 record. The NIU club won the first game 5-3 before falling 12-2 in the nightcap.
The baseball club's next outing will be a double-header at Marquette Sunday.
The NIU women's volleyball team, heading into its last weekend of conference play on the road until the last weekend of the season, has rebounded after losing its first two road conference games.
"We've accomplished what we wanted to in the fact that we've dug ourselves out of a hole," said coach Todd Kress.
The Huskies (8-4 overall, 5-2 in the Mid-American Conference) have sent a message to the rest of the MAC the past two weeks by winning five in a row, three of which have been away from Chick Evans Field House.
This weekend NIU will travel by bus to Ohio and West Virginia, to battle conference foes Ohio and Marshall.
Last season Ohio defeated the Huskies at home, but NIU retaliated in the MAC tournament by scoring a 4-game match win. NIU defeated Marshall in its only meeting, a year ago, in three games.
For the weekend, balance, defense and blocking will be the focus for the Huskies. As always Kress stresses these to his players.
NIU has been extremely balanced, and that has helped them excel, said senior Carrie Blankenship, who credited her recent MAC player of the week award to the play of her teammates.
The players, as well as Kress, want to win both matches this weekend and come back to the fieldhouse for nine of the next 10 in good standing within the conference.
"We knew when looking at the schedule that seven of nine on the road would be very tough to start," said Kress. "I think we've put ourselves in a good position if we can finish the work that we've started and get these two this weekend."
Alabama has an extra special meaning for NIU gymnast Martha Unger this weekend. Unger left Thursday night for Alabama, because she qualified last Saturday for the NCAA Regional Championships. Only seven individual gymnasts received bids to compete in...
The NIU softball team will finish its early-season road swing this weekend as it travels to Michigan State to play seven games against four teams. The Huskies, who played their first 19 games on the road, will take on Michigan State in a doubleheader...
Illinois State showed the NIU softball team two ways to defeat Wednesday as the nationally-ranked Redbirds swept a doubleheader from the Huskies. In the first game, the Huskies jumped out to a two-run, first-inning lead only to have ISU come back and...
The NIU tennis team topped off a day of sunshine and warm temperatures with an overwhelming 7-2 victory over Wheaton College Wednesday. "We are hitting hard and being more consistent," third-year coach Patty Fick said. "I have seen some big-time improvement."...
The Illinois State and NIU softball teams are proof that big-time rivalries are not restricted to big-time sports. The long series of competition between the two schools will continue today as 8-9 NIU travels to ISU, 17-7, to play an afternoon doubleheader....
