Past Season Results & Statistics
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Here (PDF) | All-Time Statistical Records
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Here (PDF) | All-Time Year-by-Year Season Results
Here (PDF) | All-Time Roster
Program History
Though there is no official win-loss record, the spring of 1973 is unofficially the first year of the University of Northwestern varsity baseball. Duane Christopherson, who would continue to be the head coach until 1978, was the inaugural skipper and got the program off on the right note. The spring of 1976 is the first season in which season results and statistics have been recovered.
Northwestern posted 3 straight winning seasons from 1976-1978 and also chalked up conference championships in 1974, 1975, and 1976. This run is highlighted by a 21 win season in 1976. Christopherson finished his career with a 47-36 (.566) mark.
Lindsay Hoyer took over the program prior to 1979 and put in two solid seasons for Northwestern. The Eagles continued their streak of winning seasons as they went 14-12 in 1979 and 18-15 in 1980.
The spring of 1981 would be monumental in the course of not only Eagle baseball history but the entire University of Northwestern Athletic Department. Chub Reynolds, for whom the current existing baseball, softball, soccer, and football fields are named after, took over the program. Under his direction, the Eagles claimed conference titles in 1985 and 1987. The 1985 team won 23 games.
Coach Reynolds was called home by the Lord after serving 9 seasons as the head man. His 148 career wins is the program's second most and his 148-104 all-time record gives him the highest career winning percentage in school history with a mark of 59 percent. Chub's 1987 squad produced the best single-season record in school history, posting a 20-6 (.769) season showing.
Mark Muska began a new era of Eagle baseball in 1990. A former player at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern, Muska brought with him a wealth of experience and knowledge for the game. In just his first season at the helm, the Eagles won the conference championship, marking the program's 6th league title.
Dave Hieb took up the head coach spot in the dugout beginning with the 1996 campaign. Hieb's squad won their first UMAC Conference Championship in 1996 and his team was recognized as the Team of the Year by the Northwest Umpire's Association in 1998.
In 2007, Hieb led the Eagles to the NCCAA National Tournament before wrapping up the season with a (at the time) program-best 31 wins. The 2004-2007 seasons marked the most successful four-year stint in program history, recording 20 or more wins in three of the four seasons during that time span (93 total). Hieb hit the 400-win mark in the eighth game of the 2018 season, solidifying his spot as the program's all-time leader for career coaching victories.
In 2021, Coach Hieb led the Eagles through the greatest season in program history. UNW went 35-12, which set a new program record for wins in a season. Early in the season, the 2021 squad made it clear that this was a special group by defeating UW-Whitewater and St. Thomas who were both nationally ranked opponents. Once the UMAC schedule started, Hieb's group got on a roll and never looked back. The Eagles rolled through their conference opponents and finished 15-1, winning the conference title for the first time since 1996. As a result, the Eagles earned the right to host the Conference Tournament. In their three Conference Tournament games, the Eagles outscored their opponents 36-11 on route to winning the Tournament Championship and earning their first ever NCAA Tournament Appearance. Additionally, the Eagles were rewarded for their great season by being named a host for the NCAA Regional. Northwestern won their first two NCAA Tournament games in program history, defeating Misericordia University and Saint Mary's University.
On the final day of the 2021 regional, the Eagles played a game that will go down as one of the great contests in Northwestern sports history. UNW faced off in a rematch against Misericordia and the game went into extra innings. The Eagles trailed by a run in the 10th before scoring in the bottom-half of the frame to stay alive, and then trailed by two in the 12th before Andrew Simonson sent a two-out full-count pitch through the left side to drive in a pair of runs. Finally, in the 13th inning, a lead-off Keegan Vercoe triple set up a Ben Spores walk-off sacrifice fly and the Eagles advanced to the Regional Championship Game where their season would come to a close.
The Eagles would repeat as UMAC Regular Season Champions in 2022 and would participate in the NCCAA National Tournament where they would win three games and advance to the final day of competition.
Upon Coach Hieb's retirement from coaching in the spring of 2023, Jesse Eikum was promoted to head coach of the Eagles after six years as an assistant. Coach Eikum, who played at Biola University before transferring to Northwestern to finish his playing career, brings experience as a head coach as well as assistant stints with some of the top programs in NCAA Division III Baseball. In Eikum's first year at the helm for UNW, he led the Eagles to 20 wins and finished second in the UMAC regular season.
Coaching History & Records
Duane Christopherson
1976 | 21-19
1977 | 14-10
1978 | 12-7
TOTAL 47-36 (57%)
Lindsay Hoyer
1979 | 14-12
1980 | 18-15
TOTAL 32-27 (54%)
Chub Reynolds
1981 | 18-12
1982 | 13-15
1983 | 13-8
1984 | 16-11
1985 | 23-9
1986 | 19-11
1987 | 20-6
1988 | 17-15
1989 | 9-17
TOTAL 148-104 (59%)
Mark Muska
1990 | 12-13-1
1991 | 16-19
1992 | 15-17
1993 | 18-12
1994 | 17-18
1995 | 11-19
TOTAL 89-98-1 (47%)
Dave Hieb
1996 | 18-21
1997 | 19-23
1998 | 18-22-1
1999 | 12-29
2000 | 9-21
2001 | 12-16-1
2002 | 14-21
2003 | 20-20-1
2004 | 25-15
2005 | 16-20
2006 | 21-17
2007 | 31-15
2008 | 11-24
2009 | 18-24
2010 | 16-24
2011 | 14-25
2012 | 26-16
2013 | 17-18
2014 | 20-19
2015 | 21-21
2016 | 24-18
2017 | 15-25
2018 | 18-19
2019 | 26-17
*2020 | 2-8
2021 | 35-12
2022 | 27-16
2023 | 15-20
TOTAL 520-546-3 (48.8%)
Jesse Eikum
2024 | 20-23
2025 | 18-24
TOTAL 38-47 (44.7%)
*Incomplete Season
