NIU: Key player: How about key players? The Huskies failed to score over the weekend against Western Michigan and will need all of its hitters to step up if they want to end its five-game losing streak in today's non-conference matchup with Western Illinois....

Returning to DePaul was a bittersweet occasion for NIU softball head coach Lindsay Chouinard. The former Blue Demon went back to her alma mater Thursday only to watch her Huskie squad fall 10-2 in five innings to the No. 22 DePaul team. The game ended...

Softball's biggest advantage is baseball's curse. The role of the pitcher in both sports is a vital component to winning, but it's the use of that component which separates the sports. The difference in style is obvious: softball pitchers throw underhand...

NIU head coach Lindsay Chouinard saw something she had never seen before in the first game of a doubleheader in which the Huskies were swept by Illinois-Chicago by scores of 4-3 and 9-1. The Flames won on a walk-off catcher's interference by freshman...

For sophomore softball player Andrea Colosimo, family dinners are comparable to the Civil War. Well, minus the whole war thing. Instead, it's more like a battle between siblings, and it's solely based on bragging rights. Colosimo takes charge for the...

After dropping a doubleheader to Toledo on Friday, the NIU softball team rebounded with a doubleheader sweep of their own against Bowling Green on Saturday. It took a dramatic walk-off win to ease any lingering pain from Friday's performance in which...

For three and a half innings Wednesday, it looked as if the NIU softball team was going to continue their four-game win streak with a road win against Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. But then came the fourth inning, and it was all Notre Dame from there...

A hungry NIU softball team had no mercy for its weekend opponents. The team went 4-0 after sweeping MAC foes Akron and Ohio in two games apiece at Mary M. Bell Field, with its last victory coming by the mercy rule as the team beat the Bobcats 8-0 in only...

Attack. That's what the NIU softball team plans to do when it steps up to the plate in a four-game home stand over the weekend. "If you attack and you're aggressive, then you learn how to battle and just get out there and play," said NIU head coach Lindsay...

A power surge lifted the NIU softball team to a 5-3 victory in the first game of a doubleheader Wednesday against Valparaiso at Mary M. Bell Field. Three of the five runs came off home runs from Kayla Kramer and Carly Norton as the Huskies got their first...

For the NIU softball team, a week-long break after dropping both games of a doubleheader Wednesday against Loyola of Chicago, was a welcomed gift. The Huskies (4-16) are batting just .200 as a team and have only one hitter over .300 in senior Katie Colby....

It wasn't the ideal home opener for the NIU softball team as it dropped the first game of a doubleheader 4-0 at Mary M. Bell Field Wednesday. But behind the shadow of NIU's 15th loss of the season was a solid pitching effort from freshman Morgan Bittner....