There are certain aspects that every ball player can be taught about the game. However, the role that senior Kyle Kimme plays for the Huskies can't be taught, only desired. Leadership is what the third baseman is all about. Kimme shows his leadership,...

NORMAL & Bilal Omar probably wishes he could have one play back. During the NIU baseball team's loss Tuesday, the shortstop was called for two errors and cost the Huskies two runs, giving Illinois State a 3-1 lead. If Omar didn't bobble and throw...

As the baseball season comes to a close, coach Dave Schrage believes every game now will be critical. This afternoon begins the final stretch of 10 games for the Huskies, who will need to play their best baseball right now if they want to make the Mid-American...

If the Huskies want to get into the Mid-American Conference baseball tournament, they have to start turning things around. But with a recent two-game slide, they have not been playing to coach Dave Schrage's liking. The last two games lacked in hitting...

NIU senior pitcher Dan Badgley finally got back into the form expected of him. Even though the Huskies lost to Chicago State, 4-2, on Wednesday, the senior pitcher worked four and two-thirds innings in relief and surrendered only one run. Badgley struck...

NIU centerfielder Noel Danielson may be a soft-spoken guy, but his play on the diamond would suggest otherwise. With 40 games under their belt, the Huskies are 20-20 thus far, and many players have made important contributions. However, only Danielson...

The yard is lifeless now. But once, the voices of Ron Johnson and his three sons echoed in that same lawn outside their Des Plaines home. Johnson, a 1969 NIU graduate and former Huskie basketball player, would play sports with his boys every afternoon....

Coach Dave Schrage believed that if his team had any chance of making it to the tournament, it'd have needed to start this weekend by winning the series over Central Michigan. The Huskies looked like they might do it, as they won the first two games of...

There's been a lot reported on the recent swarm of high school players jumping straight to the NBA and skipping college altogether. It's widely frowned upon when an impressionable teen-ager makes an ill-advised decision and dumps what is left of his childhood...

If the NIU baseball team wants to make a return visit to the Mid-American Conference tournament, this is the weekend to turn the season around. The Huskies enter this weekend's four-game series against Central Michigan with a 1-10 conference record, 18-18...

Non-conference games are what coach Dave Schrage and the NIU baseball team have excelled at, but Wednesday afternoon saw the Huskies let an opportunity slip through their hands. Visiting Charleston for a doubleheader against Eastern Illinois, NIU had...

Trevor Stocking knew adjusting from high school baseball to college baseball would be challenging, but the increase in playing time has boosted his productivity. The season has been one of ups and downs for the NIU baseball team, 16-16, though one of...