By Jake Simpson
The Daily Northwestern
At 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Northwestern appeared to have hit rock bottom. The Wildcats had lost five straight games, were in last place in the Big Ten and were one out from being swept at home for the second time in three weeks.
By 4 p.m., the Cats – and their season – had new life.
Down 5-3 in the ninth, the Cats staged an improbable two-out rally, stringing together three singles and a fortuitous Illinois error to tie the score. NU provided the encore in the tenth, when junior Antonio Mul
