Jeremy Gonzales will ride a 25.2 scoreless inning streak into Ohio for a Sunday start in the NIU baseball team's three-game set with the Bobcats. Gonzales earned National Pitcher of the Week honors earlier this week from the National Collegiate Baseball...
Starting pitcher Jake Hermsen and the NIU bats did just enough on Wednesday evening to squeak past Chicago State 4-2 at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy. NIU head coach Ed Mathey was looking to give a lot of his younger players some playing...
Hours after NIU starting pitcher Jeremy Gonzales was named National Pitcher of the Week by Pro-Line Athletic, the Huskies’ Tony Manville turned in a solid performance on the mound in a 4-1 win at Illinois State. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers...
Over two decades after coaching in his first college baseball game, there's still one thing that NIU head coach Ed Mathey doesn't understand. Why would anyone voluntarily schedule games in northern Illinois in early March? The roughly 20 games a year...
Gonzales garners MAC POTW honor Coming off a three-hit complete game shutout over the weekend, NIU starting pitcher Jeremy Gonzales was named MAC West Co-Pitcher of the Week on Monday afternoon. This is the first time in Gonzales' four years at NIU that...
Without hesitation, NIU shortstop Alex Jones summed up the strange yet delightful eighth inning of Saturday's win against Miami (OH). "That was the weirdest inning I've ever been a part of," Jones said. The strange inning started when NIU skipper Ed Mathey...
Jeremy Gonzales pitched a three-hit complete game shutout in a 2-0 win over Miami (OH) on Sunday afternoon, as the NIU baseball team took two of three from the RedHawks over the weekend at Ralph McKinzie Field. The right-hander didn’t allow a batter...
Winners of 11 of their last 16 games, the NIU baseball Huskies will take on Miami (OH) in a three-game set over the weekend. Starting at 3:05 p.m. this afternoon at Ralph McKinzie Field, this weekend's series represents the last three games of a five-game...
Another rough day in the field put a damper on any joy that came from the NIU baseball team's 8-5 win over Bradley on Wednesday evening. NIU (11-15 overall, 4-2 MAC) committed three errors for the second straight game, but some clutch hitting spurred...
DeKALB | Walks and wild pitches characterized a 7-4 loss to Illinois State for the NIU baseball team at Ralph McKinzie Field on Tuesday afternoon. The Huskies (10-15 overall, 4-2 MAC) didn’t record their first hit until the sixth inning, and that didn’t...
DeKALB |During NIU volleyball’s Salvani Spring Play Date on March 26 at the Campus Recreation Center, I observed a type of camaraderie for the first time while at Northern: alumni were trash talking the current Huskies. It was not so much the trash...
Katie Leb: Jimmy, now that NIU’s baseball and softball teams have played some games at home, it is time to judge them. Unlike other NIU sports, these players get the opportunity to choose a personalized song to be played when they walk up to the plate....
