Highly touted freshman guard Aerial Powers will miss the 2012-13 women’s basketball season after tearing the Achilles tendon in her left heel.
Three players entered DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field for their last Big Ten game on home turf on Sunday afternoon.
“I’d rather win than be perfect.” MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio’s words hung in the air, lingering for a minute.
For Bennie Fowler, it couldn’t have been more perfect. It had been a tumultuous season for the junior wide receiver. After entering the season as MSU’s number-one target, Fowler was unseated from the starting lineup three weeks ago, benched in favor of freshman wideout Aaron Burbridge after registering too many dropped passes in the first five games of the season.
“Amazing.” It was the word senior midfielder Luke Norman used to describe freshman midfielder Jay Chapman’s performance — a performance that carried the MSU men’s soccer team (8-7-1 overall, 3-2-0 Big Ten) to a 3-1 upset win over Indiana.
Even after losing what head coach Tom Saxton regarded as his best recruiting class last year, he still had an ambitious attitude for what he wanted his team to accomplish.
It was a hard-fought weekend for the MSU volleyball team, but the Spartans left Indiana with one win and one heartbreaking loss on the weekend.
For junior Sara Kroll, brutally cold temperatures and off-and-on spurts of rain weren’t going to be enough to stop her from crossing the finish line first in the women’s 6000 meter of the 2012 Big Ten Cross Country Championships.
Heading into halftime trailing by just a goal, it appeared that the No. 21 MSU field hockey team was on the verge of a Senior Day upset over No.
This weekend was one of highs and lows for the MSU volleyball team, as they won one and lost one in Indiana.
The MSU hockey team (2-3-1 overall, 1-1-0 CCHA) returns home from the opening weekend of CCHA play with a weekend split to Lake Superior State, or LSSU.
When Andrew Maxwell took the field with just over six minutes remaining and Wisconsin leading 10-3, the feeling of déjà vu was unmistakable.
The last time MSU beat Wisconsin on the final play of a regular season game, then-sophomore defensive end William Gholston found himself on the outside looking in as his teammates celebrated a 37-31 victory over the Badgers in East Lansing.
The MSU football team stole a win at Camp Randall Stadium, topping the Badgers 16-13 in overtime on a 12-yard touchdown pass to junior wide receiver Bennie Fowler.
Even in a year of transition, this wasn’t the season the MSU women’s soccer team expected. It wasn’t the one they would have hoped for. And by any stretch of the imagination, it certainly wasn’t the one head coach Tom Saxton would have liked.
Once again, missed opportunities haunt the Spartans (4-4 overall, 1-3 Big Ten) as they enter the locker room at halftime trailing Wisconsin (6-2, 3-1), 7-3.
Coming into a weekend game with No. 5 Penn State, the MSU field hockey team understood the tactical challenge it was up against. However, the execution against one of the nation’s top teams was another story.
Two-thirds of the way through a season filled with adversity, the MSU football team finds itself staring another challenge in the face this weekend. The Spartans (4-4 overall, 1-3 Big Ten) travel to Madison, Wis., to face the Wisconsin Badgers (6-2, 3-1) in Camp Randall Stadium at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Since Le’Veon Bell stepped onto MSU’s campus three years ago, he’s only ever known one thing: winning. The running back is part of a junior class that was a part of MSU’s only back-to-back 11-win seasons in the program history, yet in the past six weeks, the MSU football team (4-4 overall, 1-3 Big Ten) almost has lost as many games as the team had in the previous two years combined, something Bell said has been difficult to deal with.
This weekend marks the last time seven Spartans take the field as members of the MSU women’s soccer team. But not to be lost in the shuffle, head coach Tom Saxton said to beat Northwestern, the biggest thing that the Spartans need to improve on is attitude.