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...

Kristen Vandenhouten did the honors in game one and Kim Compton went the distance in game two as the NIU softball team (22-19-1) chalked up not one, but two shutouts in a North Star Conference doubleheader sweep of Valparaiso Friday. Saturday's doubleheader...

NIU head softball coach Dee Abrahamson is looking forward to an eventful weekend of North Star Conference action. The NIU softball team will hope to find better weather conditions on the road when they visit Valparaiso in a Friday 2 p.m. doubleheader...

Even Ernie Banks would have hesitated to say, "let's play two" after feeling the biting cold during Tuesday's NIU-Illinois State softball doubleheader. The Huskies (20-19-1) defeated the Redbirds (18-24-1) in game one 2-1, but then the teams slugged it...

This afternoon at the NIU Softball Diamond, a 43-year-old softball tradition will continue. Illinois State (18-23) will be in DeKalb to face NIU (19-19) in a doubleheader marking the 76th and 77th meetings between the two clubs. The Redbirds lead the...