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FOOTBALL

Spartans voice their choice on student section T-shirt designs

There’s no place for Democrats or Republicans with an important vote facing MSU students — it’s time to decide the 2009 football student section T-shirt. Voting for the upcoming season’s student section T-shirt can be done at http://www.msuspartans.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/062209aaa.html, and the voting period ends July 17.

SPORTS

Advancing Athletics

By now, you’ve seen the Pure Michigan advertisements on TV. In the commercials, there usually are images of Michigan’s Great Lakes, lighthouses and fresh harvests coming in. It shows all the openness, the nature of the state, the beauty that shines through the mere landscape and topography. But all the nature, as beautifully mesmerizing as it is, cannot hold the attention of the most freewheeling minds.

BASEBALL

Roof only Spartan MLB draft pick, joins father in Detroit

Eric Roof has never played baseball for his father, but he’ll get his first chance in the next couple months. Roof, who played catcher for the Spartans, was the only MSU player taken in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. He’ll be playing for the organization where his father, Gene, has spent more than two decades — the Detroit Tigers.

ICE HOCKEY

Michigan made

The Michigan-made man is dying as we know it. As the state’s auto companies file for bankruptcy and merge with foreign manufacturers, the Michigan-made man is disappearing from the nation’s architecture. The car dealers offering low prices and zero money down will become less diverse on TV and radio airwaves during the coming months.

BASEBALL

Despite slow startup, MSU ends season in high spirits

The regular season didn’t end the way the MSU baseball team wanted it to, as the Spartans were eliminated from the Big Ten Conference Tournament on Thursday. But then again, not a lot of things happened as expected this year for the Spartans, who finished fifth in the conference with a 13-11 conference record and 23-31 overall record.

BASEBALL

MSU defeated 16-5

The saying goes, “When it rains, it pours.” That was the case Wednesday as the No. 4-seed Illinois baseball team smacked No. 5-seed MSU in a 16-5 trouncing in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio.

SPORTS

Spartans lose 6-4 to Indiana

The Spartans lost the first of a three game series 6-4 against Indiana on Thursday in Bloomington, Ind., in what is a potential first round Big Ten Tournament matchup. Indiana’s first baseman Jerrud Sabourin hit a two out, two-run walkoff home run in the bottom of the ninth inning for the win. MSU is slated as the No.

BASEBALL

Spartan baseball beats Purdue, despite rain delay

Rain delayed the start of a three game set between Purdue and MSU by an hour on Saturday, and both team’s bats had just as slow a start — but just like the rain, the zeros on the scoreboard wouldn’t stick around for long. Senior right-handed pitcher A.J.

BASEBALL

MSU baseball defeats Penn State 9-1

Sophomore right-handed pitcher A.J. Achter is getting the run support he had been looking for all season — and he didn’t even need it Saturday. Fresh off a win against Iowa in which he received 10 runs of support, Achter worked eight innings and allowed one unearned run while striking out five to help MSU (20-24 overall, 10-7 Big Ten) beat Penn State (22-21, 5-12) 9-1.

SPORTS

A year to remember

The only thing that would have made sophomore guard Durrell Summers’ dunk over Connecticut forward Stanley Robinson better is if Summers had been wearing a “Welcome to Detroit” T-shirt instead of a green MSU jersey.

SOFTBALL

Anatomy of a softball pitch

In softball, the pitcher is the heart and soul of the team. “You don’t win unless you have a horse in the circle,” MSU pitching coach Jessica Bograkos said. “You don’t see any teams go the distance without an ace.”

MEN'S BASKETBALL

Izzo takes new stage with 'Izzo Goes to Broadway'

During his 14 years as head coach of the MSU men’s basketball team, Tom Izzo has participated in his share of pressure-inducing activities. He’s coached in three Final Fours, thrown out the first pitch of a Detroit Tigers game and even rapelled from the ceiling of Breslin Center.

SOFTBALL

Spartans split doubleheader with Nittany Lions

The MSU softball team split a doubleheader against Penn State on Wednesday, taking the nightcap 3-2 but losing the first game 6-3. The Spartans took the lead early in the second game with a deep three-run home run to left field by sophomore outfielder Jessica Bracamonte in the bottom of the first inning.