A week removed from a strong showing at the Hoosier Classic, the MSU softball team is ready to open the Big Ten season with a three-game weekend series against Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind.
Last week, MSU softball head coach Jacquie Joseph said she had the best 7-15 team in the country. This weekend, the Spartans (10-16) might have proven her right.
When looking at the MSU softball team’s record (7-15) the initial impulse is to assume the team isn’t very good. But the Spartans have gone through a grueling preseason that head coach Jacquie Joseph touts as the toughest in the country and said, as a result, the team’s record is deceiving.
Spring break for the rest of the student body is still three weeks away, but the MSU softball team is going to get an early taste of it this weekend, when it opens the season in Miami.
MSU softball senior shortstop Lindsey Hansen was named a 2011 Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association, or NFCA, Division I All-American, the association announced Wednesday. For her outstanding final season performance for MSU, Hansen received a third-team at-large shortstop selection.
After the MSU softball team concluded its season last weekend, the Spartans had three players selected for All-Big Ten honors, the conference announced Wednesday. Junior catcher Brett Williams was named First Team All-Big Ten, and senior shortstop Lindsey Hansen and junior third baseman Ali Grant were second and third team honorees, respectively.
Going into the 2011 season, MSU softball head coach Jacquie Joseph had high expectations for her team.
For MSU softball head coach Jacquie Joseph, the dedication of Secchia Stadium at Old College Field marks a new era of Spartan softball.
For the second consecutive day, Jordan Taylor took to the hill for No. 2 Michigan against the MSU softball team.
In the first game of its home-and-home series against No. 2 Michigan, the MSU softball team lost, 8-0, in six innings in Ann Arbor at Wilpon Complex.
Despite Purdue shutting out the Spartans, 5-0, in the first game Wednesday at Secchia Stadium, MSU fired back, winning the second game, 3-2.
With only 10 games remaining this season, the Spartans (22-22 overall, 3-9 Big Ten) have a chance to take control of their season, and they want to prove they’re tough enough to do so, starting with two road games against Minnesota (27-20, 5-7) at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
The MSU softball team followed up Tuesday’s loss against Central Michigan with better offensive production Wednesday, but settled for a split with Oakland in a double-header.
After 11 innings — seven of which were scoreless — the MSU softball team left Secchia Stadium Tuesday with an 8-3 loss to Central Michigan.
Hosting Central Michigan 4 p.m. on Tuesday and a doubleheader against Oakland starting 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the Spartans (21-20 overall, 3-9 Big Ten) will look to get back on the winning track during their conference break.
Heading into the weekend series against Indiana at Secchia Stadium, junior catcher Brett Williams knew the MSU softball team had its work cut out, having to battle Hoosiers pitcher Morgan Melloh.
After a nine-day break, Jacquie Joseph is excited for the MSU softball team’s weekend series against Indiana at Secchia Stadium.
The MSU softball team’s doubleheader scheduled for today against conference foe Purdue has been postponed due to inclement weather forecasted in for the East Lansing area. The MSU baseball team also had its Tuesday matchup against Western Michigan postponed due to weather.
Although the MSU softball team always is known for having a decent hitting team, senior shortstop Lindsey Hansen and junior catcher Brett Williams are going above and beyond.
Taking notes from two road losses to Iowa last weekend, the MSU softball team will remain on the road — playing a doubleheader against Northwestern on Today — setting out to accomplish the same goals it had before the weekend: play tough infield defense.