Northwestern baseball ventured west to DeKalb, Illinois on Tuesday and walked away with a 16-5 victory over Northern Illinois to complete a two-game season sweep of the Huskies and snap a four-game losing streak.
NIU rolled out Jacob Wilde as its starting pitcher. He entered his start having allowed seven or more runs in each of his past three appearances, and Northwestern made sure the trend would continue for one more start.
After the Wildcats went down 1-2-3 in the first, they wasted no time getting on the board in the second. On the third pitch of the inning, Alex Calarco launched a solo home run to left center to plate the first run of the ballgame.