Night game provides new energy for men's soccer
Spartan Stadium and the Breslin Center are accustomed to playing under not only the spotlight, but also the lights that oversee the players and crowds of the respected spectacles.
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Spartan Stadium and the Breslin Center are accustomed to playing under not only the spotlight, but also the lights that oversee the players and crowds of the respected spectacles.
After a victory at DeMartin Stadium on Monday afternoon, the Spartans finish with a score of 1-0 beating Cleveland State University. This game with marks the fourth straight shutout the team has recorded this season.
Goalie Jimmy Hague was named as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week, according to a press release. This is the second time Hague was awarded this honor, with the first time coming last year on Oct. 4, 2016.
While the football team is still waiting to get its first game underway, several other MSU teams have already begun its quest for a national championship this past weekend.
The MSU football team isn't the only team in East Lansing who has a recruiting class coming on Wednesday, as the men's and women's soccer teams have announced its recruiting class for 2017.
On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I went home and saw my brother play in a district basketball game.
For much of the season, the MSU men’s soccer team found itself in a resurgence. After falling below .500 in 2015, missing the NCAA Tournament and bowing out in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, the Spartans responded with an upstart season, climbing the national rankings all the way to No. 12 in the NSCAA coaches poll.
On a windy Thursday afternoon, the MSU men's soccer team embarked on its sixth NCAA Tournament journey under head coach Damon Rensing. At the friendly confines of DeMartin Stadium, the Spartans tied Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 1-1, but fell in an 11 round shootout thriller.
It was a big get for MSU men's soccer — an opening-round home game in the NCAA Tournament. As was announced Monday afternoon, the Spartans will host SIU Edwardsville at 1 p.m. Thursday
MSU announced Wednesday the contribution of $1 million through the Spartan Fund, according to a press release. The gift will be used to support the construction of lights at DeMartin Soccer Stadium, the home field of the MSU men's and women's soccer teams. The benefit comes from alumnus Craig Bush, a 1983 graduate of MSU's James Madison College.
Ryan Sierakowski ran away from the defense and into the forward-most position. It’s surely a sight that fans of MSU men’s soccer know well — the sophomore forward lengthening the grassy distance between himself and his defenders en route to a solo goal.
After a 2-1 semifinal loss to No.1 Maryland in the Big Ten Tournament, the MSU soccer team looks to rebound in the NCAA Tournament.
WESTFIELD, IND—The Terrapins did it again. For the fifth consecutive season, the University of Maryland men’s soccer team advanced to their conference tournament championship game.
It’s tourney time in the Big Ten, and on Friday the MSU men’s soccer will face its toughest opponent of the season for the second time. In fact, it would have been impossible for the Spartans to advance to a more challenging quarterfinal matchup than against undefeated Maryland, the No. 1 team in the nation whose prior win against MSU was the Spartans’ largest margin of defeat in the Big Ten this season.
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The MSU men's soccer team had the higher number in the standings, but Penn State had the number of MSU prior to Sunday's Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal game. On Sunday, the Spartans' first-ever home Big Ten Tournament game gave MSU 2-1 retribution for an earlier loss to the Nittany Lions in the season.
The No. 15 MSU men’s soccer had eight honorees when the Big Ten announced their postseason awards on Friday, according to a press release.
A lot more than bragging rights was on the line as the No. 13 MSU men’s soccer team travelled to No. 10 Indiana for the final regular season soccer game of the season. Entering Sunday’s game in Bloomington, the Spartans controlled their own destiny in their quest for the program’s first-ever home Big Ten Tournament game.
If you are from Michigan, the MSU vs. University of Michigan rivalry is something many Michiganians are born into. Whether you're a sports fan or not, this rivalry has something to look forward to every time the Spartans and the Wolverines face off.
Having to brave an away match against No. 12 Notre Dame, previously unbeaten at Alumni Stadium during the season, the No. 13 MSU men's soccer team could hardly have been blamed if they aimed for a draw. But in the penultimate regular season game, the Spartans uprooted the Fighting Irish, 1-0, as freshman Michael Beckett's timely first career goal gave the Spartans the edge.