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Battle of the Bands exposes students to new groups, sounds

Katie Abdilla
March 25, 2012

After greeting an entirely seated audience on Friday night, four-member alternative and pop band Last Night Saved My Life was determined to do everything it could to get members of the crowd on their feet, including running through the audience several times during the performance. “We’re used to playing shows for people who are standing and moving,” marketing sophomore Wilson Shaner, the band’s lead singer said.

ICE HOCKEY

Krug forgoing senior season, signed with Boston Bruins

Dillon Davis
March 25, 2012

Junior defenseman Torey Krug has announced he will forgo his senior season and sign with the NHL’s Boston Bruins. The 2012 CCHA Player of the Year and two-time CCHA Best Offensive Defenseman, Krug leaves the Spartans just two days after the MSU hockey team was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament by Union.

BASEBALL

Spartans top Oakland in second series game

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 24, 2012

Jake Boss Jr. is an offensive minded baseball coach.   The fifth year MSU head coach isn’t all about home runs and power hitting, necessarily, but he loves when his team can go out and produce runs in various situations.   That’s why Boss left the field after Saturday’s 11-2 win over Oakland at Kobs Field at McLane Baseball Stadium with a bigger smile on his face than after Friday’s 2-1 nailbiter.   “If we execute, good things are going to happen,” Boss said.

Dillon Davis ·
ICE HOCKEY

Union's defense prevails against Spartans

Bridgeport, Conn. – The No. 1-seed Union hockey team has the second highest ranked scoring defense in the country and they more than lived up to that ranking Friday, beating the No. 4-seed MSU, 3-1, at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. When MSU found out it was going to be playing against Union in the East Regional NCAA Tournament game, it understood it had a defensive game waiting for them, head coach Tom Anastos said.

BASEBALL

Baseball tops Oakland 2-1 in home opener

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 23, 2012

Tony Wieber has been doing a little bit of everything for the MSU baseball for awhile now. In the Spartans’ home opener Friday at Kobs Field at McLane Baseball Stadium, the junior utility player put his versatility on display. With the game knotted at one in the bottom of the eighth, Wieber hit a triple to left center field to bring home junior left fielder Jordan Keur all the way from first.

Dillon Davis ·
ICE HOCKEY

Hockey steps forward in first year under Anastos

Bridgeport, Conn. – Exactly a year ago Friday, Tom Anastos stood behind a podium following his introduction as the next head coach of MSU hockey – a program he knew well from his days as a player and assistant coach. Fast forward a year, and Anastos is still behind a podium.

NEWS

Numbers show most students paying new MSU health plan out-of-pocket

Ian Kullgren
March 23, 2012

Numbers outlining the scope of MSU’s controversial health care requirement show the policy is impacting just a small slice of this year’s new student population, but most are paying with no aid from the university. New data released by MSU shows about 6 percent of freshmen and transfer students, or 605 students, are enrolled in the university plan.

Justin Wan ·
MSU

Duking it out

Justin Wan
March 22, 2012

Ever since his childhood, interdisciplinary studies in social science junior Robert Nash has had a passion for wrestling.