Softball loses to Eagles 6-3
Two batters in, it became clear that the MSU softball team was in for an interesting game.
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Two batters in, it became clear that the MSU softball team was in for an interesting game.
After the MSU softball team took a step forward by snapping its seven-game losing streak with a win at Central Michigan last Wednesday, it took three steps backward when the Spartans were swept by Penn State during the weekend.
The MSU softball team took three losses this weekend in its three-game series against Penn State in University Park, Penn.
After breaking its seven-game losing streak, the MSU softball team is feeling prepared for its three-game series against Penn State — and hoping for its first conference win of the season.
The MSU softball team was able to snap a seven-game losing streak when it knocked off the Central Michigan Chippewas 6-1 at Varsity Softball Field in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
Looking to snap a seven-game losing streak, the MSU softball team is headed to Mount Pleasant, Mich., on Wednesday to face Central Michigan in a one-off midweek game at 4 p.m.
For the second straight weekend, the MSU softball team suffered a weekend sweep at the hands of a Big Ten opponent.
It just wasn’t the MSU softball team’s day.
After playing 29 straight games on the road to begin the season, the MSU softball team opened its home season at Secchia Stadium with an 8-1 loss against Butler.
Over an hour before practice began, members of the MSU softball team were on the field joking, practicing, but mainly preparing.
After seven consecutive weekends of traveling around the country from Florida to California and finishing in West Lafayette, Ind., this weekend, the MSU softball team is exhausted, and it showed when the team was swept by Purdue in a three-game series.
In its Big Ten opener, the MSU softball team suffered a 2-0 loss to Purdue on Sunday, bringing a close to its three-game weekend series in West Lafayette, Ind.
A week removed from a strong showing at the Hoosier Classic, the MSU softball team is ready to open the Big Ten season with a three-game weekend series against Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind.
Last week, MSU softball head coach Jacquie Joseph said she had the best 7-15 team in the country.
It had been more than a year since a member of the MSU softball team was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week, but utility player Stephanie Sanders snapped the streak, after being recognized for the first time by the conference Monday.
When looking at the MSU softball team’s record (7-15) the initial impulse is to assume the team isn’t very good.
Spring break for the rest of the student body is still three weeks away, but the MSU softball team is going to get an early taste of it this weekend, when it opens the season in Miami.
MSU softball senior shortstop Lindsey Hansen was named a 2011 Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association, or NFCA, Division I All-American, the association announced Wednesday. For her outstanding final season performance for MSU, Hansen received a third-team at-large shortstop selection.
After the MSU softball team concluded its season last weekend, the Spartans had three players selected for All-Big Ten honors, the conference announced Wednesday. Junior catcher Brett Williams was named First Team All-Big Ten, and senior shortstop Lindsey Hansen and junior third baseman Ali Grant were second and third team honorees, respectively.
Going into the 2011 season, MSU softball head coach Jacquie Joseph had high expectations for her team. And with many of the Big Ten teams fitting in the same range of talent, she thought there was even a possibility for a conference championship.