With summer a hop, skip and a jump away, students are anxiously awaiting its arrival. Only one task remains in front of them: finals. With this on their mind, it’s a good time to evaluate all the Huskies teams as one group. Although each sport presents...

The only positive NIU baseball coach Ed Mathey could take from his team’s April 19 game against Chicago State was that the Huskies won. NIU won 5-1, but Mathey said his team relied too heavily on its opponent’s mistakes. Today, the Huskies (11-28-1)...

Ed Mathey’s team decided it needed to grab the first game of the weekend’s three-game set against Akron by the throat. The NIU baseball team had a four-game losing streak and an anticlimactic tie Tuesday against Purdue-North Central hanging over its...

While most students can’t wait for the weekend, it hasn’t been too kind to the NIU baseball team. In four weekends of MAC play, the Huskies have gone 1-11 - the worst in the MAC. NIU will head to Akron for a three-game series, the first of which begins...

A rain-induced late start, a 32-minute rain delay in the eighth inning and an 8-8 tie against Purdue-North Central made Tuesday a grueling day for the NIU baseball team. The 12-inning marathon at Ralph McKinzie Field was called shortly after 7 p.m. due...

No more will NIU football coach Joe Novak have to use the Convocation Center as the prime recruiting venue. No more will NIU athletes have to weight train in Huskie Stadium’s junior college-type weight room. And no more will NIU be at the butt-end of...

NIU baseball coach Ed Mathey treats non-conference weekday games as training grounds for MAC weekend play. This week will be the first since March the Huskies will play only one midweek game, giving the team more time to smooth over the fielding and pitching...

Windy conditions and Central Michigan’s hot bats made it a long weekend for NIU pitchers as the Huskies were swept in a three-game home series. The Huskies (10-26 overall, 1-11 MAC) surrendered 41 runs and 51 hits over three games as Central Michigan...

Runners left on base is a misleading statistic for NIU baseball coach Ed Mathey. But the statistic has become quite a familiar one for the Huskies - they’ve totalled 45 in the last four games. "That to me is a double-edge number," Mathey said. "Our...

Before Wednesday’s game, NIU baseball coach Ed Mathey told his team it had to get better at manufacturing runs. Stepping onto the bus after a 3-0 loss to the University of Illinois-Chicago, the Huskies still need a little work in that department. Despite...

Mark Badgley didn’t know what hit him. When he opened his eyes, NIU baseball coach Ed Mathey and the team trainer were asking for his last name and what year it was. What the NIU pitcher did not realize was he had just been struck in the head by a line...

NIU baseball coach Ed Mathey just couldn’t find many positives after Tuesday’s game. Despite beating Chicago State 5-1 at Ralph McKenzie Field, NIU managed only five hits and relied heavily on CSU miscues to take the victory. "I’m not happy with...