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ICE HOCKEY

MSU Hockey kicks off season with 2-1 victory

Under the trappings and new gimmicks of a newly renovated Munn Ice Arena, MSU Hockey picked up right where they left off last season by defeating Western Ontario 2-1 Sunday evening. It didn’t take long for the Spartans to break the ice on the fresh season as freshmen center Cody Milan gave the Spartans an early lead just two minutes into the opening period.

FOOTBALL

Freshman running back LJ Scott honored by Big Ten

True freshman running back LJ Scott has been impressive early on in his time at MSU, but in the Spartans first conference game of the season Scott took his play to another level. He finished the game with career highs with 18 carries for 146 yards and two rushing touchdowns—all career highs.  The first 100-yard rushing performance of his young career was rewarded with Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors.

MSU

Students grapple with increased work loads

During the beginning of the school year, some students may simply want to tailgate and enjoy the last bit of decent weather before it takes a turn for the wicked. Some students, however, have noticed an increase in the intensity of the work early in the semester. Applied engineering senior Sarah Niezabytowski has experienced the sudden change this semester, and was caught off guard by it. “They started quizzes the second week, and that caught me off guard,” Niezabytowski said.

FEATURES

Local band Desmond Jones brings the funk

Desmond Jones, a band which formed three years ago at MSU, spent the past weekend of their fall tour performing in the Lansing area. On Friday, they went back to their roots and performed a show at The Loft in Lansing with bands After Funk and Walsher Clemons. The band consists of MSU alumni John Nowak , Isaac Berkowitz , Chris Bota and John Loria , and Brandeis University alumnus George Falk.

BASKETBALL

MSU basketball adds recruit Miles Bridges

The highly-touted high school basketball prospect Miles Bridges has made his decision. Bridges, the ESPN 100 eighth ranked player in the class of 2016, will become a MSU Spartan. [ tweet ] Bridges, listed on ESPN at 6-foot-6, 225 pounds, is a scout-rated five star recruit who played his high school basketball in West Virginia at Huntington Prep.

BASKETBALL

Valentine, Costello, Nairn Jr. named 2015-16 basketball captains

Men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo announced sophomore guard Lourawls ‘Tum Tum’ Nairn Jr., senior forward Matt Costello and senior guard Denzel Valentine as the 2015-16 team captains today. Izzo said each year the captains are selected in a different fashion, but this year the players voted. “It was voted on this time, you know every year I do it a little differently to be honest with you, and they all got a lot of votes but you know (Valentine) got every vote on the team.