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.
Spartan football recruit Eric Knott reached a plea agreement with prosecutors Tuesday, which may allow him to play for MSU.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After spending the entire year chasing MSU’s 7-year-old single-season record for hits, sophomore outfielder Bob Malek finally got over the hump Saturday during the second-to-last game of the season.After tying the record Friday, Malek’s 85th and record-breaking hit came during the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader against Penn State, when he hit a single up the middle in MSU’s 8-7 loss.“He’s a team player all the way,” MSU head baseball coach Ted Mahan said.
LANSING - It was a game that a mother would love.Although his team lost to the Burlington Bees 9-7 on Mother’s Day, Lansing Lugnut manager Julio Garcia said the players, as well as their mothers, should not be disappointed with the performance.The 16-run, 23-hit barrage started right away when Lugnut first baseman Blair Barbier (2-for-4) drove in infielder Adam Morrisey (1-for-3) with a first-inning single.
The MSU women’s crew team qualified all four varsity boats Saturday for Sunday’s Grande Final at the Lexus Central Sprints Regional Championships. But the Spartans finished fifth in Sunday’s competition with a total of 14 points, as Michigan won the competition with 120 points. The first varsity eight boat had the best showing with a time of 6:42.4 and a fourth-place finish in the final. The second varsity eight boat finished the final with a time of 6:55.6.
The MSU baseball team’s postseason hopes were shattered this weekend in State College, Pa., after it dropped four straight games to Penn State. “We certainly are disappointed,” MSU head baseball coach Ted Mahan said.
Thank you, thank you, one and all. Please be seated. Thank you for voting me as the best reporter on The State News Spring 2001 Sports Desk!
I had never been on the actual field of Spartan Stadium before. So when I got to help cover a football game this season and learned that the press was allowed there for the last few minutes of the game, I was stoked. And luckily for me, the game I chose to cover was one of the most exciting I’ve seen in my three years here. I’m not sure why MSU has a special rivalry with Notre Dame, but on that Saturday afternoon, there was no doubt that pride and bragging rights lay clearly on the line with the game. We had beat the Irish for the past three seasons, something they weren’t really used to, and they seemed determine to not let it happen again.
After a hectic semester of eating fast food and racking up frequent flier miles, my job of covering the team became truly worthwhile after MSU’s loss to Arizona.
It will be an off-weekend for the Big Ten conference in baseball this weekend, but the MSU baseball team will still be in action with three home games at Kobs Field.
With only six games remaining, the MSU softball team is on the outside looking in.“We have to win,” sophomore outfielder Tiffany Wallace said.
Despite a disappointing ending to the men’s basketball season, the month of March is one I’ll never forget. From St.
To say it was one heckuva semester around the MSU sports family would be like saying Wile E. Coyote has a little bit of trouble catching the Road Runner.
MSU football and basketball games should be easier to tune into next year, now that MSU has signed a four-year contract with CBS Radio/Infinity Broadcasting in Detroit. Starting next season, all MSU football games will be broadcast on WXYT Radio, (Team 1270 AM) and all MSU basketball games will be broadcast on WWJ Radio (950 AM). WXYT will also host weekly call-in shows with football head coach Bobby Williams and men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo.