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U pitcher joins recruit on MLB draft board
MSU baseball head coach Ted Mahan isn’t the only one who thinks highly of Brian Miller and Dylan Putnam.
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Miller honored; U recruit chosen in MLB draft
Ever since the hockey season came to a close, junior goaltender Ryan Miller has been swamped with awards and honors, and the end is not yet in sight.
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Montgomery named assistant basketball coach
MSU basketball coach Tom Izzo and his staff have spent the last five weeks searching, interviewing and checking backgrounds of coaches from all over the state and into Ohio.The search finally came to an end Monday when Izzo named former Spartan point guard Mark Montgomery as the Spartans’ No.
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Crew members honored; runner injured
MSU women’s crew members were honored as athletes and students last week. Junior Krista Buzzell was named as a First-Team All-Big Ten member and sophomore Rachel Miller was selected as a Second-Team All-Big Ten honoree. Stacey Hicks, a first-year rower for MSU, was named this year’s Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Year.
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Lugnuts trail behind in series with Whitecaps
LANSING - After splitting the first half of a four-game series with the West Michigan Whitecaps in Grand Rapids this weekend, the Lansing Lugnuts dropped the third game of the series 4-2 Sunday at Oldsmobile Park. The Whitecaps (26-28) shut out the Lugnuts (22-35) 10-0 Friday, while Lansing won 6-3 Saturday after it overcame a two-run deficit in the eighth inning. West Michigan didn’t waste any time getting those two runs back Sunday - taking a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Lansing hitting coach Mike Micucci said the Lugnuts were not prepared to play and were unable to recover from the runs scored in the first inning. “Sometimes all it takes is one inning and today that’s what happened in the first couple innings,” Micucci said. “It took us a couple of innings to get into the game, and we couldn’t make up the difference.” In the top of the fourth inning, the Lugnuts cut into the Whitecaps’ four-run lead with two runs of their own, when first baseman Blair Barbier (1-for-4) loaded the bases on an infield single, extending his hitting streak to 13 games.
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Decathlete Terek places fourth at NCAA Track Championships
MSU junior decathlete Paul Terek earned the All-American tag for his efforts at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships last week in Eugene, Ore.Terek’s first-place performance in the decathlon pole vault and his third-place finish in the 1,500-meter run helped him earn fourth overall at the competition, with 7,645 points.The MSU co-captain, who also competed in the pole vault, stood in eighth place following day one of the decathlon.
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Bowen verbally commits to w-hoops for 2002
DANSVILLE - MSU’s tireless recruitment of Dansville High senior point guard Lindsay Bowen, which started when she was an eighth-grader, proved valiant Wednesday. In front of a crowd of Dansville faithfuls Wednesday morning, Bowen announced her intention to dress in green and white for the 2002-03 season.
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Terek eyes NCAA titles
The Big Ten Athlete of the Year and a promising freshman will represent MSU this week at the 2001 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore. Junior All-American Paul Terek, who won Big Ten Athlete of the Year and Athlete of the Meet at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships honors earlier this month, will compete in the pole vault and the decathlon at the competition, which started Wednesday and continues through Saturday.
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Spartans honored for academic excellence
Forty-eight MSU athletes were honored Tuesday as the Big Ten announced its spring Academic All-Big Ten team.
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Taylor ready to prove his worth at USA tryouts
MSU sophomore point guard Marcus Taylor might be going from East Lansing to the Far East later this summer.
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Golf completes best NCAA finish ever; crew places 10th nationally
The MSU women’s golf team finished in a 12th-place tie Friday at the 2001 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship at Howey-In-The-Hills, Fla.
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Dansville w-hoops recruit may choose U
Dansville High junior Lindsay Bowen will announce her fate as a college basketball player at her 10:30 a.m.
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Izzo still searching for aide; Garland promoted
By this time next week, MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo expects to fill the empty seat on his bench - a seat vacated last month when assistant coach Stan Heath took the head coaching job at Kent State. Since Heath’s departure, Izzo has promoted his No.
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Knott pleads guilty to lesser charges
Spartan football recruit Eric Knott reached a plea agreement with prosecutors Tuesday, which may allow him to play for MSU.
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Two-out heroics lift Lugnuts to victory
LANSING - After losing 9-4 to the Quad City River Bandits on Monday night, the Lansing Lugnuts had a successful, quick turnaround for Tuesday morning’s series-ending contest. The game started at 10:35 a.m.
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Womens golf ready for NCAA Championship
Dream, believe and achieve. MSU women’s golf coach Stacy Slobodnik said those three words will appear on the team’s Big Ten Championship ring because they have been staples in the Spartans’ success this season. Now the 16th-ranked Spartans will try to build on their momentum in the NCAA Championship, which starts today at Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
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Lugnuts lose fourth straight
LANSING - The Lugnuts dropped their fourth-straight game Sunday - a 1-0, 10-inning pitchers’ duel to the Quad City River Bandits at Oldsmobile Park. After losing the series opener 6-4 to Quad City on Saturday, Bandit second baseman Reggie Gonzalez ended Lansing’s hopes of taking game two with his game-winning home run off of reliever Ferenc Jongejan (0-2) in the top of the 10th.
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Terek resets school decathlon record; Izzo to help coach U.S. Goodwill team
The men’s and women’s track teams both finished in the bottom half of the Big Ten Outdoor Championships in Bloomington, Ind., this weekend, but each had some bright spots. Senior Paul Terek was named the 2001 Big Ten Athlete of the Meet for his record-breaking performance. Terek set a school record and a Big Ten Outdoor Championship record with 7,695 points in the decathlon, automatically qualifying him for the NCAA Outdoor Championship in Eugene, Ore. Terek already held the school record since 1999 and broke it earlier this season with 7,441 points.
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Track teams prep for weekend conference championship meets
The MSU men’s and women’s track and field teams will be competing in the 2001 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championship this weekend in Bloomington, Ind.Men’s coach Darroll Gatson looks forward to strong competition from his athletes during the weekend, while women’s coach Angela Goodman looks to use the weekend as a stepping stone for her program.Gatson has high expectations of his team, but there is one standard he has set for his athletes - to compete.“Our goal is to be very competitive,” Gatson said.
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Crew boat makes NCAA championships
MSU women’s crew coach Bebe Bryans predicted correctly Sunday when she said the first varsity eight boat would have a good chance of making the crew national championships.Bryans said the team was contacted about its NCAA at-large berth right before practice Tuesday and everyone was “obviously really excited.”The varsity women’s crew team has been in competition for four years and has made nationals in all four of its seasons.