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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Hank Christie throws a pitch. The sophomore pitcher leads the team in games started with 13.

Baseball: NU’s pitching staff tries to carry the team into the future

May 16, 2018

Baseball Two weeks ago, head coach Spencer Allen was forced to manage a difficult set of circumstances. Freshman Jack Pagliarini, who leads starters with 54 strikeouts and a 3.99 ERA, could have started...

Willie Bourbon takes a swing. Bourbon homered in Tuesday’s game but the Wildcats still lost to Notre Dame.

Baseball: Notre Dame defeats Wildcats in final midweek game of the season

May 15, 2018

Baseball When Northwestern and Notre Dame met last month in South Bend, Indiana, the Wildcats pitching staff allowed only five hits and shut out the Fighting Irish offense in a 2-0 victory. Tuesday’s...

Jack Dunn slides in safely to second base. The junior shortstop walked off Friday’s win against Iowa.

Baseball: Walk-off heroics, dominant pitching highlight series win over Iowa

May 13, 2018

Baseball Heading into this weekend’s series at Miller Park, Iowa and Northwestern were trending in two different directions. The Hawkeyes (29-18, 10-9 Big Ten) were coming off a resume-boosting...

Alex Erro takes a swing. The sophomore is batting .285 this year, but the Wildcats are still 14-28 overall.

Baseball: Entering final homestand, Northwestern still searching for last season’s magic

May 10, 2018

Baseball With just two home runs through his first 45 games last year, then-freshman Alex Erro would have been considered one of the least likely sources for season-altering at-bats. But that...

Coach Ron Wellman (far left) and other Northwestern assistant coaches and players look out from the Miller Park dugout. Wellman led the Wildcats to five years of success in the 1980s.

Baseball: Revisiting the unprecedented success of the Ron Wellman coaching era

May 9, 2018

The story of the Ron Wellman era of Northwestern baseball, of the five years in a century and a half of history when the program didn’t just scrape by in the Big Ten basement but rather clawed for unprecedented...

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