Tickets to a Chicago Cubs game, a hitting contest and a number of other prizes will be just some of the highlights at NIU's 3 p.m. softball doubleheader against long-time rival Illinois State. Beating the Redbirds will be one goal for the Huskies, but...

Mother Nature was the only winner in the Easter weekend Spirit of St. Louis Invitational Softball Tournament. NIU was scheduled to play six teams in the three-day tournament, but because of the rain, all of the games were cancelled. The Huskies remain...

The more a team plays, the better a team gets is a theory shared by many. NIU's softball team has been challenged by this theory in its current string of 18 games in 11 days. This challenge will be over soon. But first, the Huskies must battle in the...

A no-hitter is good enough for a win, right? Wrong. Iowa held the NIU softball team hitless in game two of a doubleheader Tuesday, but came away the loser. The Huskies split the two-game set by capturing a 1-0 win in the nightcap. With runners on first...

With the taste of victory on the tip of its tongues, NIU's softball team was poisoned with a mouthful of disappointment on two late-inning comebacks from guest Adelphi University Monday. NIU (10-15-2) surrendered five runs after a 4-1 lead in game one....

Two key Saturday victories powered the NIU softball squad to a second-place finish in the Western Illinois 'Winds Classic Tournament in Macomb, Ill. The Huskies scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to slip past Ohio State, 8-7, in Saturday's...

Tuesday's doubleheader for the NIU softball team was a mixed bag as the Huskies lost one and then didn't win, but didn't lose, the nightcap. NIU, playing it's 1990 season home-opener(s) against Bradley couldn't hold a lead in the first game of Tuesday's...

Offense figures to be one of the main highlights in today's softball home-opener when NIU hosts Bradley in a 3 p.m. doubleheader. "I think it will be offensive," said 11th year NIU coach Dee Abrahamson. "There will probably be lots of opportunities to...

Close games and a load of long-ball hitting provided positives in NIU's 2-3 showing at the Creighton University-Bud Lite Softball Invitational over the weekend. Three of the five tournament games were decided by one run with the 6-10 Huskies coming out...

If Huskie Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell were a comedian, his sense of timing wouldn't get him a ticket out of First City, let alone a gig at Second City. There are no good times to announce the impending elimination of a sport, but on the scale of better...

Amidst all of the basketball hoopla, the NIU volleyball team is keeping busy. Especially coach Pete Waite, who has been on the recruiting trail ever since the season ended. To show for his work, Waite landed two top prospects that will fill the outside...

After an eight-year off-season, the Huskie baseball program recently threw out its first pitch with nationwide classified ads for head coaching prospects with Division I college experience. NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell said since the announcement...