The Northern Illinois (3-10) baseball Huskies won the battle of Illinois teams shutting out the University of Illinois 3-0 today at Rent One Park in Marion Illinois.
Senior Zach Oates (Wheaton North High School) went all nine innings for the Huskies giving up 3 hits and 1 walk while striking out 5. Alex Jones (Kansas City KS) and Alex Beckman (Batavia High School) both tripled for the Huskies and Joe Etcheverry (Bakersfield CA) went 2-3 with two rbi's.
Shortstop Josh Parr (Illinois Valley Central High School) had two of the three hits for the Illini(4-9).