Oct. 29, 1999

DEKALB, Ill. – The University of Kentucky suffered a disappointing road loss to NorthernIllinois on Friday, falling 4-2 to the Huskies in DeKalb.

NIU’s Dan Parisi opened the scoring at 3:42 to give the Huskies the earlylead. UK immediately responded, as Jason Bell rocketed in a 20-yard shot toeven the score.

The Cats then pulled ahead on a Brent Rainey goal in the 36th minute, butthe Huskies came right back and tallied a goal less than two minutes later,at 36:55, when Robby Berkely netted an eight-yarder. Berkley struck againat 78:00 before Igor Dubak closed out the scoring at 87:14.

With the loss, UK falls into second place in the Mid-American Conferencewith a 4-1-1 conference mark and drops to 9-6-1 overall. NIU improves to10-8, 3-4 in the MAC.

UK looks to return to its winning ways on Sunday, when the Cats travel toface Western Michigan in their regular-season finale at 1 p.m.

     1 2 FUK   2 0 2NIU  2 2 4

Goals: NIU – Dan Parisi (Eric Clark, Andrew Conti) 3:42, Robby Berkely(Parisi) 36:55, Berkely (unassisted) 78:00, Igor Dubak (Robert Smith)87:14, UK – Jason Bell (unassisted) 3:57, Brent Rainey (Marc Theriault) 35:16