The first chapter of Lauren Hill and Lauren Sinacola’s MSU careers couldn’t have been scripted any better. As freshmen, Hill and Sinacola finished one-two in goals and points for the Spartans and were both selected to the Big Ten All-Freshman team.
Sweep. That is the story once again for the MSU women’s volleyball team which swept Eastern Michigan, 3-0, Tuesday night.
Men’s soccer coach Joe Baum has had a lengthy and storied career as a player and coach at MSU. As both a player and a coach, he has won championships. His players have received too many accolades to count, but Sunday Baum earned an accolade of his own, becoming just the second Big Ten coach to reach the 300-win mark.
Freshman Jantine Steinmetz has been named Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week for her efforts in both weekend match-ups against Lindenwood and Saint Louis. This marks the second consecutive week that a member of the MSU field hockey team has earned this award.
Freshman Jenilee Rathje was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for her efforts in the Harvard Invitational this past weekend.
MSU alumni and former members of the women’s golf team Emily Bastel and Allison Fouch finished as the top two money leaders in the 2007 Duramend Futures Tour, earning their tour exemption for the 2008 LPGA season.
While Pittsburgh will come to Spartan Stadium looking to avenge last year’s loss to MSU, the Spartans are looking to get a little retribution of their own for head coach Mark Dantonio. In Dantonio’s three years as Cincinnati’s head coach, he never beat its Big East opponent Pittsburgh — losing 33-15 in 2006 and 38-20 the year before.
With an 0-2 start, no bowl wins since the 2002 Outback Bowl and a never-ending underground movement for his removal, Michigan football head coach Lloyd Carr is likely done after this season as King of the Rodents.
Two close games turned out two different results for the MSU women’s soccer team on their weekend road trip. The Spartans managed a split on their trip out East, beating Penn 1-0 Friday and dropping 2-1 to Lehigh in overtime Sunday.
Donning green and white from head to toe, Mary Fossum stood behind the 18th green Sunday to watch a program she helped pioneer clinch another victory.
Reclaiming the title, setting a new tournament record and turning in the lowest freshman debut in program history is all in a day’s work for the MSU women’s golf team.
If the MSU pass rush needed a slogan, it might be, “What a difference a year makes.” The Spartans recorded 16 sacks in 2006 – just two more than last-place Indiana in the Big Ten. On Saturday, though, MSU collected seven sacks to bring its season total to 12 in two games.
Spartan football tasted adversity for the first time this season, but they just chewed it up and spit it right back out, defeating Bowling Green 28-17 on Saturday. “The thing that impressed me about our football team is that we did handle adversity,” head coach Mark Dantonio said. “We didn’t just go in there and all of a sudden quit playing and hang our heads. We kept coming back and someone kept making a play.”
MSU fans were introduced to a terrific concept last Saturday called schadenfreude. And, really, we have yet to let that go.
Two members of the Thornhill legacy will walk onto Spartan Stadium’s field Saturday, and a third will be there in spirit.
By halftime of the Michigan football game against Appalachian State on Saturday, two tailgaters who had been listening on the radio in East Lansing had a pressing request for custom clothing store Spartan Corner, 103 E. Grand River Ave.
Last season, all it took was a 30-yard run by then-junior running back Jehuu Caulcrick to put the Spartans ahead of No. 12-ranked Notre Dame, 37-21, with just less than six minutes remaining in the third quarter. MSU was in control of the game.
Head coach Mark Dantonio has been saying all along that football is a game of inches, and after several upsets last Saturday, his claim was validated.