This Week in Huskie Athletics NIU will have two teams in action. NIU track and field will host the MAC Outdoor Championships at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex. The MAC Outdoor Championships will start on Thursday, May 9 and go through Saturday, May 11. Baseball hosts St. Thomas on Wednesday before a weekend trip to Kalamazoo, Mich. to face WMU.

Track and Field

Track and Field

Thursday-Saturday, May 9-11: MAC Outdoor Championships (DeKalb, Ill.) –   Live Results | Championship Central

For the first time since 2011, NIU will host the Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships as the Huskies welcome the league to the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex this Thursday through Saturday. Competition begins at 10 a.m. on Thursday (May 9), 11 a.m. on Friday (May 10) and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday (May 11).

Last season, the Huskies finished fifth at the MAC Outdoor Championships as Diamond Riley won the triple jump and NIU set a new school record in the 4×100 meters. This season, Arianna Calloway enters the conference championship ranked fourth in the high jump while Jazmyn Smith is ranked fourth in the MAC in the long jump.

Tickets for the MAC Championships are on sale now starting at $12 for single-day passes, with three-day passes available for just $27. Tickets are available at NIUHuskies.com and will be available at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex on each day of the championship.

Baseball

Wednesday, May 8 vs St Thomas: –  Live Video

Friday, May 10 at Western Michigan: – Live Stats

Saturday, May 11 at Western Michigan: – Live Stats

Sunday, May 12 at Western Michigan: – Live Stats

NIU Baseball wraps up a four-game homestand Wednesday with a 3 p.m. game against St. Thomas. It will be the first meeting on the diamond between the Huskies and the Tommies. Last weekend, NIU took one out of three games against Ball State at Ralph McKinzie Field at Walt and Janice Owens Park. The Huskies bounced back from a 4-3 loss last Friday to beat the Cardinals 12-3. Redshirt-Sophomore pitcher Adam Brouwer allowed one run on two hits over seven innings. He retired the first 12 batters he faced before hitting the Cardinals’ leadoff hitter in the fifth. Brouwer retired the side after that. Ball State got its first hit in the top of the sixth but that runner was left on base. In MAC games this season, Brouwer is 6-1 with a 2.70 ERA. In 50 innings, Brouwer has 35 strikeouts against only 10 walks.

NIU and Western Michigan split its series last season in DeKalb, with the third game cancelled due to weather. The Broncos are in second place in the MAC with a 15-9 record, taking two out of three games against league leaders Bowling Green last weekend. Junior designated hitter CJ Richmond was named the MAC Player of the Week on Monday, hitting .667 last week with seven runs batted in while slugging over 1.000. The Huskies are three games back of sixth-place Kent State for the final MAC Tournament berth.