Lansing- If the Lugnuts had their wish, baseball games would have one less inning. Another bad inning cost the Lugnuts the game, with its 4-1 loss to the South Bend Silver Hawks on Sunday afternoonThe Lugnuts (15-22) have struggled lately to put together an entire game.
Head coach Rick Comley finds this year's schedule to be an improvement over last year's. The 2003-04 ice hockey schedule, released Wednesday, offers numerous chances to see the Spartans at Munn Ice Arena. "Last year we only had 17 home games," Comley said.
MSU's Athletics Hall of Fame will gain five new members in September when the Class of 2003 is inducted.
Lansing - The Lansing Lugnuts stole the game from the Fort Wayne Wizards on Wednesday by sacrificing their way to a 3-2 win at Oldsmobile Park. After plating only one run on five hits through eight innings, the Lugnuts (15-18) went back to the basics.
The USA World Junior Championship team had a rocky stretch during the weekend, falling to Australia, but rebounding to defeat Slovenia and Puerto Rico to close out the basketball tournament in fifth place. Team USA (7-1) defeated Puerto Rico on Saturday, 82-80.
Team USA still perfect after edging Lithuania The USA Junior World Championship Team is still dominating the 2003 FIBA Men's Junior World Championships. MSU sophomore center Paul Davis and sophomore guard Maurice Ager continued their undefeated exposure to international basketball on Tuesday with a slim 87-84 victory over Lithuania. Davis scored 13 in the evenly-matched game, his most weighty basket a score with just under seven minutes remaining to give Team USA (5-0) a 71-68 lead.
Fans of MSU or Kentucky basketball without tickets to the schools' Dec. 13 matchup are officially hard-pressed to find a ticket because "The BasketBowl" is sold out.After season-ticket holders and university donors from both schools claimed the first 50,672 seats, the remaining 19,028 tickets allotted to the general public on Tuesday sold out in a span of four days, according to the Ford Field Ticket Office.
MSU sophomore center Paul Davis and sophomore guard Maurice Ager are having a hand in leading the USA World Junior Championship Team to a 3-0 record in first round play at the 2003 FIBA Men's Junior World Championships in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Even those of you who hate soccer have heard of the World Cup and David Beckham. But only the truly passionate have heard of the Confederations Cup and Marc-Vivien Foé. The cup is an average-sized international soccer tournament and Foé is an over-sized soccer player, standing at 6 feet 4 inches.
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is a celebration of the game of baseball and an honor to every player who receives an invite to play in it each July.
'BasketBowl' tickets available on Tuesday Tickets for the "BasketBowl", the MSU-Kentucky basketball matchup at Ford Field in Detroit, will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday. MSU ticket manager Chris Besanceney said 50,172 tickets have been ordered through private sales to Spartan donors and season ticket holders.
Lansing - The smell of hot dogs and popcorn, the sound of bats cracking and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" can mean only one thing - summer has arrived at Oldsmobile Park. Baseball and summer go hand-in-hand.
Field Hockey Five members of the MSU field hockey team are in the running for a championship title in the U.S.
MSU's attempt to set a world record in basketball attendance is shaping up into a reality as ticket sales for "The BasketBowl" have now topped 50,000. On Saturday, MSU ticket manager Chris Besanceney reported that 50,172 tickets have been sold for the Kentucky-MSU basketball game at Ford Field in Detroit on Dec.
Lansing - Wednesday's early start time made the Lugnuts appear to be still asleep. Errors cost Lansing the game, losing to the Cedar Rapids Kernels 5-3. Missed catches in the outfield and bad decisions made in the infield were a large factor in the Lansing (42-30) loss. "It's tough to play a noon game after you're used to the clock being at night," Lugnuts Manager Julio Garcia said.
The Lansing Lugnuts impressed the Midwest League in the first half of the season, but still have their work cut out for them to keep postseason hopes alive. After holding onto first place for most of the first half of the season, the Lugnuts (38-27) lost the top spot to the Fort Wayne Wizards (40-28) in the Eastern division, as well as losing an automatic playoff berth for finishing in first place at the season's turn. The second half of the Midwest League season begins today at Oldsmobile Park with an eight-game homestand for the 'Nuts. The first four are against the Kane County Cougars and the remaining games against the Cedar Rapids Kernels. But before the Lugnuts look forward to the second half, six members of the Lansing roster were chosen to play in Tuesday's Midwest League All-Star Game in Comstock Park, Mich., home of Eastern division foe the West Michigan Whitecaps. Shortstop Buck Coats (.307, 39 RBI) and designated hitter Donnie Hood (.327, 7 HR, 27 RBI), were selected by Midwest League managers as starters, and left fielder Keith Butler was chosen as a reserve outfielder. Despite being picked to come in off the bench in Tuesday's All-Star Game, Butler put on the game's most commanding performance. In the bottom of the ninth, Butler hit a one-out bases loaded single between the shortstop and third baseman to give the Eastern team a 5-4 victory. Butler, named the Midwest League Star of Stars, went 3-for-3 in the contest. Lugnuts closer Jason Wylie (0.57 ERA, 14 SV) and starters Jae Kuk Ryu (6-0, 1.83 ERA), Justin Jones (3-3, 2.55 ERA) and Andrew Sisco (2-2, 1.78 ERA) represented the Lansing pitching staff on the Eastern division All-Star squad.
The first four games of the 2003 MSU football season are scheduled to be televised by ESPN and NBC, Big Ten officials announced Monday.The Spartans' Aug.
After pacing the MSU women's track and field team in distance running all season long, junior Jamie Kryzminski capped her season with a fifth-place finish in the 10,000-meter run at the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships late Thursday night. Kryzminski trumped her own school-record in Thursday's race, posting a 32:52.87 time - more than 30 seconds better than her previous best. The fifth-place finish earned her All-America recognition for the second straight season and improved on her seventh-place finish at the same event one season ago. She became the first female Spartan track and field athlete to be named an All-American in consecutive seasons. @Byline:Patrick Walters
As the lone participant from the MSU men's track and field team in the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, junior Steve Manz capped the season with an 11th-place finish in the shot put Friday evening. Of three tosses in the finals, Manz's final throw went 57 feet 1 1/2 inches.
Ticket sales for "BasketBowl" have already eclipsed the 32,000 mark, well on pace to break the attendance record for an NCAA basketball game, the MSU Athletics Department reported Saturday. "BasketBowl," an MSU-Kentucky men's basketball matchup scheduled for Dec.