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Sports | Football 1000

SOCCER

Zacharski overcomes adversities, finding comfort zone as a Spartan

Laura Collins
September 23, 2004

The opportunity to run up and down Old College Field sporting the Green and White has been a long time coming for Lauren Zacharski. In between transferring schools after her sophomore year and a serious knee injury, the women's soccer senior forward had to put her college soccer career aside. Zacharski originally played for Georgia during her first and second years of college.

SPORTS

Deadline Friday to buy MSU hockey tickets

Roneisha Mullen
September 23, 2004

Student tickets for MSU hockey are now on sale. The price is $72 for the eight-game package and the order deadline is Friday. There are two nine-game packages, and students will have the option of Ticket Plan A or B at the time of pick up.

SPORTS

Doetzel named co-Big Ten player of week

Roneisha Mullen
September 23, 2004

MSU freshman Danette Doetzel was named co-Big Ten women's cross country runner of the Week along with Indiana's Jessica Gall. At the 2004 Nike/Playmakers Spartan Invitational on Friday, Doetzel won the women's 6K race by a 21-second margin. The Spartans are ranked No.

SPORTS

Tightly knit group consistent

Megan Homanick
September 22, 2004

The quarterbacks keep switching, the running backs rotate in and out and the wide receivers change almost every play, but the one constant on MSU's offense has been the line. The Spartan offensive line consists of senior guard William Whitticker, senior tackle Sean Poole, junior tackle Stefon Wheeler, sophomore guard Kyle Cook and junior center Chris Morris. MSU's "big uglies," as lineman are often called, are slowly coming together as a unit and gave their best performance of the season against Notre Dame last week, Whitticker said. "This offensive line has gelled each game this year," Whitticker said.

SPORTS

Volleyball searches for outside left hitter as Big Ten season approaches

Wanted: An all-around MSU volleyball player to fill opposite side hitter duties which include providing a strong left side attack and consistent back court play. Must be good at passing, defense and serving. The MSU volleyball team (5-3) is searching its ranks for the left side attacker, or the "L2", and have yet to find a player to make the position their own as the Spartans head into the first week of conference play. "That is something this team has struggled with for the last few years is having a real consistent L2 player," head coach Chuck Erbe said.

VOLLEYBALL

Spartans go winless in weekend plays

The MSU volleyball team went 0-2 this weekend, losing to Notre Dame and South Carolina in the Gamecock Invitational in Columbia, S.C. "That's just what happens," head coach Chuck Erbe said.

SPORTS

Performance did not warrant ESPN broadcast

Over the weekend I received a dozen or so e-mails about the column I wrote in the latest Sidelines section "GameDay made mistake coming to East Lansing." The common trend was pure shock, that I, an MSU student, would bash the university.

FOOTBALL

A hard day's night

Megan Homanick
September 20, 2004

The MSU offense turned the ball over six times, the wide receivers dropped passes and an offensive touchdown wasn't scored until the last minute of the game. "I told the team that we are all going to come in tomorrow morning to look at film from this game, and we are going to be very ill," MSU head coach John L.