The game threatened to balloon into a more comfortable win for Charleston on a couple occasions — one midway through the first half and one late in the second — but spirited bursts from the Huskies brought the home team back, fired up the building and made for one of the most compelling ballgames of the year.
The Huskies went into the weekend series looking for two much-needed wins as their season quickly winds down. Although the Catamounts do not hold the best season record, sitting at seventh in Hockey East with a 6-16-4 overall record prior to the series against Northeastern, the Huskies were aiming to ignore the standings and get the job done.
The Northeastern women's basketball team has greatly improved their game under head coach Kelly Cole, since she took her position in 2014. The Huskies now have a greater confidence in themselves that moves them to them next level, evident in their split set of games this past weekend.
When his journey began, Vasa Pusica moved nearly 9,000 miles from his home in Serbia to Bel Aire, Kansas, where he attended one of the nation’s top high school basketball programs. Now in his third year of collegiate play, the redshirt junior is having a career year and hopes to lead the Huskies to the tournament for just the second time since 1991.
When you need a goal, you go to your best players. When Northeastern needed a goal to tie with under a minute left in regulation Friday, they went to their two Hobey Baker candidates.
With their netminder pulled, fourth-year winger Dylan Sikura whizzed a pass across the ice...
Defeating Central Connecticut State 164-117 in their final home meet of the season, Northeastern swimming and diving recognized their seven senior members prior to the meet with flowers, balloons and posters.
Northeastern student-athletes earned a cumulative GPA exceeding a 3.0 for the 20th consecutive semester as of Fall 2017, a testament their collaboration with the Office of Student Athlete Support Services, a department of specialists and interns that work with around 450 student-athletes.
The Huskies cruised to a 64-46 victory over the Tribe Sunday afternoon, leading for all but 14 seconds of the game and improving to 4-3 in conference play and 9-9 overall.
Friday night’s loss in Amherst broke the Huskies’ nine-game undefeated streak, but the setback was not enough to shake NU from first place in Hockey East, where the team remains one point ahead of cross-city foes Boston College.
The Huskies grabbed the lead just 34 seconds into the game with a goal by second-year defenseman Codie Cross, who earned her 25th career point with the goal. NU’s quick goal jump-started a dominant first period.
The Huskies stayed even with the Dragons early on — the teams were deadlocked at 10 after trading baskets and playing at a slow pace in the first quarter. With a recorded attendance of 816, the Huskies had their second biggest crowd of the season thus far.
