Downers Grove North right-handed pitcher Anthony Ciango gave a verbal commitment to Northern Illinois' baseball program on Sunday, Ciango confirmed Monday evening. Ciango is a 6-foot-1 pitcher and an incoming senior at Downers Grove North.

The DeKalb County Liners completed the first half of their inaugural season this week and start the second half today at Danville. After compiling a 10-15 record in their first 25 games, the Liners will look to turn things around in the second half to make a run at the Prospect League playoffs.

As the summer heat has been sizzling, so have four Northern Illinois Huskie baseball players.

INDIANAPOLIS – Prep players may have to wait a little longer to start accepting scholarship offers.

A week after Mid-American Conference 2010 saves leader Andy Deain joined the Baltimore Orioles, two of his former pitching teammates followed suit by signing professional contracts over the weekend.

Northern Illinois announced the latest additions to its Athletics Hall of Fame on Tuesday as one team and four individuals make up the 2010 class and will be inducted into prestigious company on Oct. 22 as the Huskies celebrate Hall of Fame Weekend/Varsity Club Day during the fall home football weekend.

Northern Illinois closer Andy Deain became the latest addition to Ed Mathey’s growing list of Huskies who have signed professional contracts on Monday. By signing with the Baltimore Orioles organization, Deain’s childhood dream came true after performing at a high level for five years at NIU.

All 17 of Northern Illinois University’s intercollegiate athletic team have surpassed the academic standards measured by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Academic Progress Rate for 2008-09, marking the fifth consecutive year that every NIU team has made the grade. The NCAA released its complete 2008-09 Division I APR report Wednesday.

The top Mid-American Conference institutional awards were handed out Wednesday as Kent State was awarded the Reese Trophy representing the top men's athletic program and the Jacoby Trophy representing the top women's athletic program.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – After scoring just 22 points all season in mop-up duty, Missouri freshman forward Tyler Stone has no illusions of bolting college for the NBA after a single year.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The NCAA has a message for would-be college athletes hoping to use online courses to bolster their high school transcripts: proceed with caution.

Jeremy Gonzales dominated Western Michigan in a Northern Illinois 5-2 win Friday afternoon, allowing just three hits in a complete-game effort on the mound of Ralph McKinzie Field.

Northern Illinois took care of its first order of business en route to a possible postseason bid by hanging on for a 7-5 win over Western Michigan Thursday on a soggy afternoon at Ralph McKinzie Field.

The bats came alive Tuesday evening at Ralph McKinzie Field as Northern Illinois used season-bests of 19 hits and 11 walks to score 21 runs to easily take down Milwaukee for the third time this season.  With the 21-6 win, the Huskies (21-31) improved to 8-4 on the year in midweek non-conference games.

After both teams scored a run in the first inning, Ball State put up two in the fifth and four in the six, while Northern Illinois scratched only one run in its final eight chances, to give the Cardinals an 8-2 win.  With yesterday’s triumph, BSU clinched the three-game series on Saturday afternoon’s Mid-American Conference game at Ball Diamond. 

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Just like another team with a shade of red before them did, the Northern Illinois Huskies defeated a Milwaukee baseball team under a closed roof at Miller Park Wednesday.  With the help of back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning and a strong effort on the mound by Jake Hermsen, NIU took down the Milwaukee Panthers 5-3 at Miller Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Brewers.

Down 7-0 after the fourth inning, Northern Illinois rallied to within one run following a four-run eighth inning but it was not enough to overcome the early deficit, as the Huskies fell 10-7 to Valparaiso Tuesday afternoon.

DeKALB – Up 7-0 after six innings, all was looking well for the Northern Illinois baseball team.  Then Eastern Michigan rallied for four in the seventh, one in the eighth, and eight in the ninth to take down the Huskies 13-11 Sunday afternoon in the rubber match of a three-game Mid-American Conference series at Ralph McKinzie Field.

Brett Frantini delivered the go-ahead hit in the eighth inning to take starter Jeremy Gonzales off the hook as Northern Illinois defeated Eastern Michigan 3-2 Saturday at Ralph McKinzie Field in the second of a three-game Mid-American Conference series.

Another strong mound effort from Chuck Lukanen was not enough for the Northern Illinois baseball team to eclipse Eastern Michigan in Game One of a three-game Mid-American Conference series at Ralph McKinzie Field on a brisk Friday afternoon.

After allowing just one run in 7.2 innings Friday in Northern Illinois’ 4-1 win over Central Michigan, Chuck Lukanen was named the Mid-American Conference West Division Pitcher of the Week, the league announced Monday.

For the second consecutive start, Northern Illinois hurler Tom Barry was magnificent as he pitched the Huskies to a 3-2 victory Sunday in the series deciding finale of a three-game Mid-American Conference set against Central Michigan, who entered the weekend as the West Division’s first place team.

NIU's Hood has been hit by a pitch 57 times in his career

Despite two home runs and three RBI from Jordin Hood, the Northern Illinois baseball team could not hang on to a pair of leads against Central Michigan as the Huskies fell 8-7 in an eventful, sloppy Mid-American Conference tilt at Ralph McKinzie Field Saturday.

SPRINGFIELD – The Daily Chronicle on Friday won the James S. Copley Memorial Trophy as the top newspaper in its circulation class in the Illinois Press Association's annual Excellence in News contest.

Scoring three runs in the eighth inning to break a 3-3 tie, the Northern Illinois baseball team pulled off a 6-3 win over Bradley on a warm and sunny afternoon at Ralph McKinzie Field in its lone midweek contest.  With their second consecutive victory, the Huskies (16-24) started their season-long, seven-game home stand on a good note.

It was Oct. 20, 1996.

Two runs in the first inning.  Two hitters with two hits apiece in the sixth inning.  Two hitters with two RBI in separate at-bats each in the same inning.  Two runs allowed.  Two consecutive wins.  Two hundredth win.  The crazy twos were the composition of the Northern Illinois baseball team’s impressive performance of scoring a season-high 10 runs in the sixth inning and getting a dominant one-hit effort from starter Jake Hermsen en route to a 13-2 win over Iowa Wednesday. 

The luck of the draw at Hillsdale College turned into one heck of an opportunity for Jake Howells.

NIU alum Ned Colletti has helped turn L.A. Dodgers into a perennial contender

After a 4-2 sixth-inning deficit, the Northern Illinois baseball team hustled its way to an exciting walk-off 5-4 victory over Illinois Chicago Tuesday at Elfstrom Stadium.  NIU is now 5-0 all-time, with two wins over UIC, at the home of the Midwest League’s Kane County Cougars.  

After trailing 9-4 in the seventh inning, the Northern Illinois baseball team rallied for a run in the seventh and two more in the ninth to close the gap, bringing the go-ahead run to the plate, but did not do any further damage.  In the rubber match of a three-game Mid-American Conference series, Ohio came out on top Sunday, 9-7, scoring on 12 hits with the help of three walks and four hit-by-pitches.

Ohio's Eisenstein blends stories and play-by-play

A day after delivering a victory on head coach Ed Mathey’s birthday, the Northern Illinois baseball team did not do the same on assistant coach Ray Napientek’s birthday.  Despite scoring at least a run in six of the nine innings, the Huskies dropped a 20-9 decision to Ohio on a sunny and cool Saturday afternoon of Mid-American Conference competition.

Appeal takes Bobcat run off scoreboard in one-run victory

After undergoing an 18-month, campus-wide effort to study its intercollegiate athletics program as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I athletics certification program, Northern Illinois University has received the highest classification of "certified," the NCAA announced Thursday. This is the third time Northern Illinois has successfully gone through the organization's certification process.

After coming back to knot the game twice, the Northern Illinois baseball team could not do it a third time as the Huskies fell 6-3 to Northwestern on a beautiful warm evening that ended under the lights at the Rockford RiverHawks’ Road Ranger Stadium on Wednesday.

Thirteen-year-old Satchel Daleo is pretty sure where he’s going to high school.

What could make this Monday more ridiculous?

Just after tying the game, 1-1, in the top of the eighth, the bottom half of the frame was unkind to the Northern Illinois baseball team, as the Huskies (10-19, 3-5 Mid-American Conference) struggled to make plays on three bunts, allowing Miami (Ohio) to claim a 5-1 win in Game Two of a three game MAC series.

NIU pitcher named MAC West Co-Pitcher of the Week

Two crooked number innings helped the Northern Illinois baseball team take down Illinois State, 11-4, in non-conference intrastate action on a breezy, but warm and sunny, evening at Duffy Bass Field on Tuesday as the Huskies (10-17, 3-3 Mid-American Conference) scored five in the second inning and four in the fifth to improve to 3-2 against Illinois opponents in 2010, 54-26 under eighth-year head coach Ed Mathey.

With a relentless wind blowing directly in toward home plate and a pair of feisty teams, both factors caused several delays as the Northern Illinois baseball team did not come out on top, losing an 11-7 decision to Buffalo in the three-game series deciding finale on Easter Sunday in Mid-American Conference action.

With a little dust in the wind on a gusty, warm Friday afternoon at Ralph McKinzie Field, the Northern Illinois baseball team gave head coach Ed Mathey his 400th career win by taking down Buffalo, 6-1, in Game One of a three-game Mid-American Conference series, marking the team’s sixth win in its last seven contests.

Andy Deain always looks forward to the first movie.

On a warm, sunny evening at O’Brien Field, the Northern Illinois baseball team spoiled Bradley’s home opener by plating seven runs in the middle innings for an 8-3 win Wednesday.

After losing February 21st's four-game series finale at Arizona State due to field conditions, the Northern Illinois baseball team announced today that it has found a replacement game, as the Huskies will travel to Iowa City to face the Iowa Hawkeyes at 6:05 p.m., at Duane Banks Field, April 21st.

DeKALB – Ed Mathey knew it was time for a change.

DeKALB – At any moment, the call can arrive.

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - After losing Game Two of the series, 7-2, the Northern Illinois baseball team took the rubber match, 8-5, in 11 innings to claim a Mid-American Conference-opening series win over Bowling Green (7-11-1, 1-2 MAC), Saturday, at Warren E. Steller Field in a doubleheader on a sunny, mild afternoon.