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BASEBALL

Spartans top Oakland in second series game

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 24, 2012

Jake Boss Jr. is an offensive minded baseball coach.   The fifth year MSU head coach isn’t all about home runs and power hitting, necessarily, but he loves when his team can go out and produce runs in various situations.   That’s why Boss left the field after Saturday’s 11-2 win over Oakland at Kobs Field at McLane Baseball Stadium with a bigger smile on his face than after Friday’s 2-1 nailbiter.   “If we execute, good things are going to happen,” Boss said.

Dillon Davis ·
ICE HOCKEY

Union's defense prevails against Spartans

Bridgeport, Conn. – The No. 1-seed Union hockey team has the second highest ranked scoring defense in the country and they more than lived up to that ranking Friday, beating the No. 4-seed MSU, 3-1, at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. When MSU found out it was going to be playing against Union in the East Regional NCAA Tournament game, it understood it had a defensive game waiting for them, head coach Tom Anastos said.

BASEBALL

Baseball tops Oakland 2-1 in home opener

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 23, 2012

Tony Wieber has been doing a little bit of everything for the MSU baseball for awhile now. In the Spartans’ home opener Friday at Kobs Field at McLane Baseball Stadium, the junior utility player put his versatility on display. With the game knotted at one in the bottom of the eighth, Wieber hit a triple to left center field to bring home junior left fielder Jordan Keur all the way from first.

Dillon Davis ·
ICE HOCKEY

Hockey steps forward in first year under Anastos

Bridgeport, Conn. – Exactly a year ago Friday, Tom Anastos stood behind a podium following his introduction as the next head coach of MSU hockey – a program he knew well from his days as a player and assistant coach. Fast forward a year, and Anastos is still behind a podium.

ICE HOCKEY

MSU looks to win NCAA Tournament game

Dillon Davis
March 22, 2012

Bridgeport, Conn. — Torey Krug has been through a lot of changes in three years. From bursting on the scene as a talented All-CCHA player as a freshman to being elected a team captain as a sophomore to seeing a coaching change and a shift in the direction of the MSU hockey program, Krug quickly embraced his role as a leader and has found success as the CCHA’s most offensive defenseman in more than two decades.

BASEBALL

Spartans to play Oakland in 3-game series home opener

Dillon Davis
March 22, 2012

Despite earning a program-building victory against then-No. 11 St. John’s in its first official game of the season on the road, there’s nothing like a little home cooking for Ryan Jones and the MSU baseball team. Following an opening stretch of 17 games on the road, the Spartans (10-7) return to McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field for the first time in the young season this weekend for a three-game set with Oakland (3-12), starting at 3:05 p.m.

SPORTS

Jarzen looks to earn All-American honors at NCAA Championships

Alex McClung
March 22, 2012

When junior Jacob Jarzen hits the water for each of his swimming races, he said he is in the zone. For the third year in a row, Jarzen has qualified for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. He is the only swimmer representing the Spartans this weekend — competing Thursday through Saturday — at Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Seattle, a feat head coach Matt Gianiodis said should not go unnoticed.

SPORTS

Gymnasts stay determined for Big Ten Championships despite low ranking

Jesse O'Brien
March 21, 2012

After falling to No. 31 in the regional qualifying score, or RQS, rankings, the MSU gymnasts should be on their heels as they head into the Big Ten Championship in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday. The Spartans (7-3-1) are coming off a tough 196.025-192.700 road loss to No. 21 Michigan, and their score of 192.700 allowed a couple of teams to jump ahead of them in the rankings, dropping three spots from No. 28 and potentially putting them in the hot seat to be one of the teams left out of the top 36 that qualify for regionals.

ICE HOCKEY

Perlini, Sorenson hope to lead MSU in 1st NCAA Tournament

Dillon Davis
March 21, 2012

Brett Perlini and Tanner Sorenson are at the opposite ends of their career at MSU. Both forwards for the Spartan hockey program, one’s a senior, one’s a freshman. One is headed to the NHL after this season, the other more than likely back to his dorm room. One represents the wave of the past, one is a major part of the arc of the future.

BASEBALL

Baseball anticipates home opener this weekend

Dillon Davis
March 21, 2012

About a year ago at this time, the MSU baseball team returned home to a frozen baseball field and the bitter chill of March. This year has been a much different story. Having won six of their last seven games to cap a 17-game road trip, the Spartans (10-7) return home to host Oakland in the first series of the year at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field.

Josh Mansour ·
BASKETBALL

Williams maintains focus after 2nd ACL tear

Josh Mansour
March 20, 2012

Madison Williams stood in the locker room, bracing herself to tell her teammates the news she heard only hours earlier. As the three simple letters “A-C-L” left her mouth, the room froze, and she left in tears after coming face to face with the looks of pity and sadness she spent the previous year fighting to move past.

ICE HOCKEY

Spartans see no pressure in underdog role

The future of the MSU hockey team’s season was in the hands of Union last weekend. The team was on the bubble for a bid to the NCAA Tournament, but thanks to No. 1-seed Union’s 3-1 win Saturday against Harvard, MSU will travel to Bridgeport, Conn., this weekend to compete against the same team they were rooting for just a few days ago.

ICE HOCKEY

Column: Tournament victory could save season

Dillon Davis
March 20, 2012

Ah yes, an underdog story. Players own the distinction of it. Fans thrive on it. Members of the media write and rewrite their stories to determine if it’s too cheesy — it almost always is. With the NCAA Tournament just days away, the MSU hockey team is about to embark on an underdog story of its own, and the narrative is its for the taking.

BASKETBALL

Spartans view Sweet 16 as stepping stone

Jeremy Warnemuende
March 19, 2012

With the MSU men’s basketball team locking up its fourth trip to the Sweet 16 in the last five years, the Spartans continue to establish themselves as one of the best tournament programs in the country. And although that’s all fine and good, senior forward Draymond Green said players and teams aren’t remembered for making the Sweet 16.