DeKALB | Every Wednesday, Brothers Bar and Grill in downtown Iowa City has ten cent chicken wings at their "Wing Ding Wednesday." Wednesday night at Duane Banks Field, pitchers were a dime a dozen for the Hawkeyes. Iowa (15-13) used seven pitchers to...

DeKALB | When NIU baseball coach Ed Mathey added NAIA St. Xavier University to the schedule early last week, he didn't picture the outcome that would ensue. The Cougars, out of the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference, came to DeKalb Tuesday afternoon...

DeKALB | After grinding out its first ever series win over Miami-Ohio this past weekend, the NIU baseball team goes back in action at 3 p.m. today in a home game versus St. Xavier University. The game wasn't on the schedule at the beginning of the season,...

DeKALB | If players and coaches around the MAC didn't notice before, they will now. It's that point in the season where the NIU baseball team has proven its early success is no fluke. With four three-game conference series in the bag, the Huskies are...

DeKALB | One of the keys to the NIU baseball team winning every MAC series this year has been its ability to win the opening game of the series. But despite losing Friday's opener 8-3, the Huskies came back strong, winning the final two games, 4-3 and...

NORMAL | In a prize fight the 10th, 11th and 12th rounds are referred to as the "championship rounds," where the true grit of a fighter is tested. The most memorable fights are back-and-forth affairs with decisions that go right down to the wire. On a...

DeKALB | Another week of baseball brought another round of accomplishments for the Huskies. NIU is now 17-10 overall and 7-2 in the MAC, good enough for an early third place position in the MAC West. NIU continues to hold the best batting average in the...

One week ago today, the NIU baseball team defeated intrastate rival Illinois State 8-6 under cold and windy conditions at Ralph McKinzie Field in DeKalb. The Huskies will try to make it a clean sweep as they play the Redbirds at 6 p.m. this evening in...

Boycott this cold weather that has usurped valuable time that could be spent outdoors. As a personal rule, I refuse to wear a jacket past March 1. That's right, Mother Nature, catch up to me. This spring, I will be outdoors and active, and plan to motivate...

DeKALB | NIU baseball head coach Ed Mathey is all about winning the series. And Mathey's team did just that, taking two of three from Kent State (12-19, 4-5) over the weekend for its third consecutive MAC series win. After winning the first two games,...

A projected weekend forecast of possible snow showers and 30-degree temperatures await the NIU baseball team as it travels to Kent, Ohio for a three-game MAC crossover series with the Golden Flashes. "The weather will be a big factor," coach Ed Mathey...

At the end of the NIU bullpen is the reliable arm of Matt German. The senior closer is on the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Watch List, and has been tabbed by Collegiate Baseball as the "Projected Pitcher of the...