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SPORTS

Spartans score in Big Ten Foreign Tour

MSU junior center Katrina Grantham and junior guard Victoria Lucas-Perry had solid performances in their first game on the Big Ten Foreign Tour team. The two players helped the team to a 119-56 win against the Netherlands National Team in the opening game of the team's tour Tuesday night with a combined 24 points and 11 rebounds.

SPORTS

Spartans get verbal commit for fall 2007

After attending MSU football camp from Sunday through Tuesday last week, Lowell High School junior-to-be quarterback Keith Nichol decided it was the right time to give a verbal commitment to attend MSU in 2007. "There wasn't one coach that I didn't like," Nichol said Thursday.

BASEBALL

Mason names former Notre Dame assistant as baseball coach

It took MSU athletic director Ron Mason four weeks to find the next MSU head baseball coach, but on Wednesday morning at the Kellogg Center he announced David Grewe will take over that position. "The final decision was mine, but I had some help along the way from some baseball people that I trust," Mason said.

SPORTS

2 MSU golfers named to academic team

Junior Heather Rose and sophomore Kristen Polanski have been selected to the 2004-05 National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team. Rose has a 3.43 grade-point average and has just finished her second season on the golf team.

SPORTS

Grantham, Lucas-Perry on Foreign Tour Team

MSU junior center Katrina Grantham and junior guard Victoria Lucas-Perry were named to the 2005 Big Ten Women's Basketball Foreign Tour Team on Thursday. "I am really excited about the opportunity to be in a different setting to enhance my basketball skills," Grantham said in a written statement.

SPORTS

Women's basketball gets transfer player

The MSU women's basketball team has a new member - and she's not a freshman. Guard Mia Johnson, who led Saint Louis University in the 2004-05 season with 17.1 points per game, has announced that she will transfer to MSU this fall.

BASKETBALL

MSU to host NCAA 2007 opening rounds

The NCAA Division 1 Women's Basketball Committee has selected MSU and the Breslin Center to host first- and second-round games for the 2007 NCAA Women's Basketball Championships. "We're exited as a department to host the first and second rounds," MSU Director of Athletics Ron Mason said in a written statement.

SPORTS

8 recruits join women's team for next season

The MSU women's soccer team will have eight new players in the fall, joining a team that went 12-8-1 in 2004. The eight players are defensemen/midfielder Kelley Amormino from Sterling Heights, forward Lauren Carter from Rochester Hills, goalkeeper Danielle Petri from Rochester Hills, midfielder Kristi Timar from Novi, goalkeeper Lindsey Wrege from Portage, goalkeeper Ashley Crandall from Glen Ellyn, Ill., goalkeeper Demaree Bruck from Loveland, Ohio, and midfielder Michelle Telebar from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. "We (are) very happy to have a great group of freshmen eager to come in and contribute to our program in the fall," head coach Tom Saxton said in a written statement.

BASKETBALL

Agent says undrafted Anderson will report to Charlotte Bobcats

Former MSU forward Alan Anderson will report to the Charlotte Bobcats this week as an undrafted free agent, Anderson's agent Henry Thomas confirmed. Anderson was projected to be selected in the NBA Draft last week, as high as the 26th pick to the Detroit Pistons, but was still waiting after 60 selections. Anderson played four years at MSU, finishing his career with 1,195 points - tying him for 22nd on MSU's all-time scoring list with fellow 2005 senior Kelvin Torbert.

BASEBALL

All-Star voting rules should be rewritten

Once again Major League Baseball's All-Star teams will be a concoction of some of the best players in the game - and a bunch of guys who had a good first half of the season. MLB's brilliant idea of allowing the fans to vote in the starters - America's biggest popularity contest - usually works out, but it's way too much power for the fans to have their hands on. The rest of the process involves the players getting to vote for the reserves for each team, the managers making sure each team is represented by one player, and finally, the last spot on each roster is voted by the fans from a list of five players. Right now, managers choose a few players, players choose the rest of the reserves, fans choose one reserve and all of the starters.

FOOTBALL

MSU football player ineligible for season

Wide receiver Agim Shabaj will not be returning to the MSU football team as he has been ruled academically ineligible for the 2005 season, said John Lewandowski, assistant athletics director and director of Sports Information. Shabaj, a high school teammate of junior quarterback Drew Stanton, played in 11 games and had 29 catches, with one touchdown last season.