The NIU women's tennis team is set to return to the courts again when DePaul visits DeKalb today at 2 p.m. The Huskies will be attempting to raise their fall record to 3-2 while also keeping tradition alive, having never suffered a defeat to the Blue...

NIU's outgoing men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher hopes the team gives him a going-away present this weekend against Northwestern University. "Time to send me off with a bang," said Merzbacher, who told The Northern Star Tuesday that he will leave NIU...

He has coached the NIU men's tennis team to two straight Mid-Continent Conference championships, and now he is moving on to bigger and better things. NIU men's tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher told The Northern Star Tuesday that he will resign from his position...

NIU's women's tennis team will be relying on the great DeKalb weather this weekend. The team has the NIU Invitational Tournament scheduled for Friday and Saturday at the West Campus tennis courts. The Invitational will close out its fall schedule but...

Victories were few and far between for NIU's tennis squads this weekend: ‘NIU's women's tennis team had a rough time of it in Iowa City, Iowa, as the Huskies lost both matches they played. NIU lost to host Iowa on Friday 9-0 then battled to a 5-3 defeat...

NIU's women's tennis team will be facing adversity and stiff competition this weekend when it takes on Iowa and Nebraska. "We're hurting right now," said NIU coach Patty Groth-Newbrough. "We're down to six, maybe even five girls." The Huskies travel to...

The NIU women's tennis team will get its first test of the new season when it heads to Indiana University on Friday to participate in the Hoosiers' Fall Invitational at Bloomington, Ind. NIU head coach Patty Groth-Newbrough is anxious to start the season...

Sarah Murfey and Hild Andersch preserved the NIU women's tennis team's third-straight 9-0 victory with a dramatic three-set win over DePaul yesterday. After dropping the first set 7-5, Murfey and Andersch rallied for a 6-2, 6-4 win, but it was a hard-fought...

Sarah Murfey, NIU's No. 1 women's tennis player, shedded her "wimp" image yesterday, while NIU continued its dominance in the North Star Conference with a 9-0 victory over Illinois-Chicago. During the third set of her match against Mara Lencina at the...

While the NIU women's tennis team was able to shut out Valparaiso University, the Huskies couldn't overcome Mother Nature and had to settle for a 1-0 weekend trip. The Huskies chalked up a 9-0 whitewashing over Valparaiso Friday, but a Saturday morning...

It was a gorgeous day for tennis Thursday and the NIU women's tennis team came up with a beautiful 6-3 triumph over Illinois State University at the West Campus courts. Hild Andersch, Jami Cheek, Svetlana Nedeljkovic and Breda Dean all gathered victories...

While it may seem like the worst of times, NIU women's tennis coach Patty Gorth hopes something good can come out of a weekend in which Miami (Ohio) University defeated the Huskies by an 8-1 margin. The 8-6 Huskies were originally slated to play Ball...