MSU hockey released it’s schedule for the 2016-17 season yesterday and after a season ripe with top tier opponents, many of them on the front end of the schedule, MSU hockey again will face a tough non-conference slate.
Needing only one win to clinch a spot in the Big Ten Tournament title game entering the weekend, MSU baseball season came to an end following a 4-3 loss Saturday and a 7-3 Sunday loss to eventual Big Ten Tournament champions Ohio State University.
On Thursday, May 19 through Sunday, May 22, the MSU Archery Team hosted the 2016 U.S. National Outdoor Collegiate Championship, where archers from across the nation competed at the Hope Sports Complex in Lansing. One of those athletes is MSU biochemistry and molecular biology sophomore Carolyn Graham.
Duke will host MSU in this season's ACC/ Big Ten Challenge, according to CBS Sports.
With a guaranteed berth in the Big Ten tournament, the pressure was off of Michigan State on Senior Day, May 21.
While the Spartans still have one game remaining in the regular season, the win against the in-conference Maryland Terrapins sealed the Spartans a spot in the Big Ten baseball tournament for the third straight year.
The Michigan State baseball team started the last series of the regular season off with a home loss to Maryland, 6-3.
After losing two of three to the Iowa Hawkeyes in their last Big Ten road trip of the season and losing 12-1 to Central Michigan in Mt. Pleasant, MSU is now in sixth place in the Big Ten.
Baseball at MSU started with humble beginnings. It was the first organized sport at the State Agricultural College in athletic history, which was MSU’s second university name. Students organized the team and played local communities including the Capital Club of Lansing.
MSU baseball junior catcher Matt Byars, like his game, is quiet. Much like his 6-foot-1, 188 lbs. frame, his numbers are not over-imposing.
Jake Boss Jr. has always been around baseball. And to be around baseball is to be around his father.
Since the early 1970s Brian Pushie has been attending MSU baseball games. The 63-year-old Detroit resident said he has seen a lot of change during the time period he has enjoyed Spartan baseball, including the construction of a new stadium.
UNLV forward Ben Carter announced Wednesday his intentions to transfer to MSU and join the 2016-17 Spartans basketball team with immediate eligibility.
Of the 253 total players drafted over the weekend in the annual NFL Draft, MSU had five players going to four different NFL teams.
Former MSU basketball star Keith Appling WXYZ's Justin Rose broke the news on Monday afternoon with this tweet: Bad news for former Spartan Keith Appling.
It was all Michigan all game long, until a Spartan rally in the eighth inning won game two of a three game set against the Wolverines in come from behind fashion, by a final score of 7-6.
Redshirt junior pitcher Cam Vieaux was unable to pick up a win for the Spartans for his second straight start.
Head coach Jake Boss Jr. and the Spartans have one goal in mind for this weekend — to win the series. This goal is the standard for MSU in every matchup, especially when it comes to conference play.
For the third straight year, MSU has had one of their football players go in the first round of the NFL Draft.
