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Sports | Hockey

VOLLEYBALL

Seniors spark team workouts

Summer is usually a time to relax, but not in the case of the MSU volleyball team. Usually preseason is the time teams start practicing together, getting a feel for what they will be able to accomplish during the upcoming season. But with four seniors and 11 returning letterwinners, senior co-captain libero Emmy Miller and senior co-captain setter Nikki Colson wanted to get a head start on their competition.

SPORTS

Lugnuts shut out Fort Wayne, 5-0

Lansing - Three straight wins and a 5-0 shutout of the Fort Wayne Wizards on Sunday at Oldsmobile Park have the Lugnuts thinking they've righted the ship.With so much of Lansing's recent slump coming off poor hitting and sloppy play, the Lugnuts combined to score four runs in the eighth off fundamental hitting and base running."Everything that we could do well as a club, we did today," Lansing manager Julio Garcia said.

BASKETBALL

Izzo, Hill still in medal contention at Pan Ams

MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo and the rest of Team USA faced its second loss at the 2003 Pan American Games on Tuesday, forcing the Americans to move to the bronze medal game. Team USA (2-2) lost to Brazil 92-80 in the last five minutes of the semifinal game.

SPORTS

Sports briefs

Team USA rallies to beat Argentina, 80-79 In a dramatic opener to the Pan American Games on Saturday, Team USA squeezed out a one-point victory, defeating tournament-favorite Argentina, 80-79. After holding a six-point lead in the first quarter, the Americans (1-0) fell into a slump during the second and trailed by four at halftime.

SPORTS

New classes enrich coaching ability

In an effort to increase knowledge about coaching, MSU is offering three new online courses through the Department of Kinesiology. The classes are graduate-school level but are available to anyone who is a part of the lifelong education program.

SPORTS

Lugnuts' slump continues with loss to Silver Hawks

Lansing- If the Lugnuts had their wish, baseball games would have one less inning. Another bad inning cost the Lugnuts the game, with its 4-1 loss to the South Bend Silver Hawks on Sunday afternoonThe Lugnuts (15-22) have struggled lately to put together an entire game.

ICE HOCKEY

Icer schedule released for 2003-04 season

Head coach Rick Comley finds this year's schedule to be an improvement over last year's. The 2003-04 ice hockey schedule, released Wednesday, offers numerous chances to see the Spartans at Munn Ice Arena. "Last year we only had 17 home games," Comley said.

SPORTS

Lugnuts win in last inning

Lansing - The Lansing Lugnuts stole the game from the Fort Wayne Wizards on Wednesday by sacrificing their way to a 3-2 win at Oldsmobile Park. After plating only one run on five hits through eight innings, the Lugnuts (15-18) went back to the basics.

BASKETBALL

Davis leads Team USA to fifth place finish

The USA World Junior Championship team had a rocky stretch during the weekend, falling to Australia, but rebounding to defeat Slovenia and Puerto Rico to close out the basketball tournament in fifth place. Team USA (7-1) defeated Puerto Rico on Saturday, 82-80.

BASKETBALL

Sports briefs

Team USA still perfect after edging Lithuania The USA Junior World Championship Team is still dominating the 2003 FIBA Men's Junior World Championships. MSU sophomore center Paul Davis and sophomore guard Maurice Ager continued their undefeated exposure to international basketball on Tuesday with a slim 87-84 victory over Lithuania. Davis scored 13 in the evenly-matched game, his most weighty basket a score with just under seven minutes remaining to give Team USA (5-0) a 71-68 lead.

BASKETBALL

'BasketBowl' sells out, 75,000 expected

Fans of MSU or Kentucky basketball without tickets to the schools' Dec. 13 matchup are officially hard-pressed to find a ticket because "The BasketBowl" is sold out.After season-ticket holders and university donors from both schools claimed the first 50,672 seats, the remaining 19,028 tickets allotted to the general public on Tuesday sold out in a span of four days, according to the Ford Field Ticket Office.

SPORTS

Foé: Lionhearted in life, death

Even those of you who hate soccer have heard of the World Cup and David Beckham. But only the truly passionate have heard of the Confederations Cup and Marc-Vivien Foé. The cup is an average-sized international soccer tournament and Foé is an over-sized soccer player, standing at 6 feet 4 inches.

SPORTS

All-Star Game suddenly shady

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is a celebration of the game of baseball and an honor to every player who receives an invite to play in it each July.

SPORTS

Sports briefs

'BasketBowl' tickets available on Tuesday Tickets for the "BasketBowl", the MSU-Kentucky basketball matchup at Ford Field in Detroit, will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday. MSU ticket manager Chris Besanceney said 50,172 tickets have been ordered through private sales to Spartan donors and season ticket holders.

SPORTS

Where Lugnuts call home

Lansing - The smell of hot dogs and popcorn, the sound of bats cracking and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" can mean only one thing - summer has arrived at Oldsmobile Park. Baseball and summer go hand-in-hand.