The Huskie softball squad will host a tournament this weekend at the Huskie Softball Complex. The round robin tourney will include Northeastern Illinois, Loyola, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Northern Iowa, and will begin Saturday at 9 a.m. and...

Worries over equal treatment of women's athletics have been sweeping the country. This of course raises the question, how does NIU rank in its treatment of women's sports? Does NIU treat women's sports equally with men's in terms of publicity, financial...

The Huskie softball team snapped a 21-game winning streak of the #1 ranked Arizona Wildcats in last Friday's doubleheader in Tucson, and now find themselves ranked in the Top 25. In the first game of the twinbill, All-American Susie Parra, 12-0 for the...

While DeKalb held freezing temperatures over NIU's Spring Break, the NIU softball squad was enjoying the warm atmosphere in Tempe, AZ, and the satisfaction of winning with a 5-4, 2-1, doubleheader sweep of the 19th-ranked Sun Devils of Arizona State University....

Despite the freezing weather in DeKalb, the NIU softball team managed to find a way to open up its ‘spring' schedule as it traveled to Lafayette, La., for doubleheaders against the 10th-ranked Ragin‘ Cajuns of Southwestern Louisiana and McNeese State....

Snow, Arctic cold and wind chills around 30 below. Yeah, it must be the time of the year for the NIU softball team to start the 1993 campaign. After all it is spring semester, right? All kidding aside, the Huskies will start the 1993 season this weekend...

The NIU athletic department plans to announce a major renovation project for Huskie Stadium later this spring. The project will involve two phases to improve the present seating and other spectator facilities. When asked why the stadium is in need of...

The NIU softball team ended its "preseason" play last weekend when it finished third in a pool of six teams at the Western Illinois Westerwind Invitational. The Huskies narrowly missed a chance to play for first place in the championship game but lost...

The NIU softball team held its annual Huskie Invitational Tournament over the weekend. Taking part in the two-day event with the Huskies were Ball State, Loyola and Western Illinois. The tourney was won by the Cardinals of Ball State with the Huskies...

Although there's still a while before the season begins for NIU's softball team, Dee Abrahamson's squad played for almost eight-straight hours last Saturday. The Huskie Hundred, an annual fund-raising event for the team, sent the girls out onto the field...

Playing its final home game of the season wasn't the only incentive that propelled the NIU softball team Friday. North Star Conference foe Wisconsin-Green Bay provided the opposition and the Huskies knew NSC foes Illinois-Chicago and DePaul were right...

"It ain't over ‘til it's over." The Northwestern softball team thought just that when it came back from a 4-0 deficit in the top of the seventh inning to score four runs and send the game into extra innings yesterday at the NIU Softball Field. NIU and...