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Sports | Volleyball 1025

SPORTS

Harmon shines for MSU

Matt Bishop
April 24, 2007

Matt Harmon has been on a roll lately. The senior golfer has made the most out of the spring golf season, finishing all four spring events in the top 10, including back-to-back first-place finishes at the Kepler Invitational two weeks ago and the Fossum/Spartan Invitational last weekend. As the lone senior on the squad, Harmon's play has catapulted the MSU men's golf team into a great position as it prepares for the Big Ten Championship this weekend. "This team has really impressed me," Harmon said.

SPORTS

Men's golf team win weekend tournament

Eric Fish
April 23, 2007

The MSU men's golf team won the Fossum/Spartan Invitational, hosted by MSU at Forest Akers West Golf Course, for the first time in 15 years. The Spartans won by 14 strokes and had a 54-hole total of 841, good for 23 strokes under par. MSU's Matt Harmon and Jack Newman were part of a three-way tie, along with Xavier's Jason Kokrak, for top medalist honors.

FOOTBALL

Davis looks for big senior season

Steve Highfield
April 23, 2007

At 6-foot-6 and 254 pounds, senior Kellen Davis has the prototypical frame of an NFL tight end. But he has yet to put together a breakout season in his three years at MSU, totaling 28 catches for 276 yards and three touchdowns in 29 career games. That all may change under the new coaching staff, which makes an effort to involve the tight end in the offense and use the run to open up the pass. "I definitely feel like I'm going to be utilized more," said Davis, who caught a touchdown pass for the Green team in Saturday's scrimmage.

SPORTS

Monday musings

Tom Keller
April 23, 2007

Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher was fined $100,000 last week for wearing a cap during Super Bowl media day that promoted a sponsor not authorized by the league.

SPORTS

Coach P gone? No worries; women's team will continue to be contender

The Joanne P. McCallie era came to a bitter end at MSU, leaving a bad taste in the mouths of a lot of people, including myself, but we must not forget what she accomplished and the new heights the program reached under her lead. When McCallie came to East Lansing on March 27, 2000, the program had accomplished little on the national stage. Fast-forward five years, and McCallie had her team in the national championship game.

FOOTBALL

Farewell to spring

Ethan Conley
April 20, 2007

Spring practice commenced one month ago today for the MSU football team, beginning the first true phase of Spartans football under new head coach Mark Dantonio.

SPORTS

Arizona native is team's anchor

Matt Bishop
April 20, 2007

Luckily for MSU women's golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, junior Sara Brown paid a visit to MSU in the summer. Brown, a native of Tucson, Ariz., developed such a good relationship with Slobodnik-Stoll that she looked past Michigan's various weather patterns and gave up the sun-drenched desert for the Green and White. "Our personalities got along great from the first time that I talked to her on the phone," Brown said.

SPORTS

McCallie's departure leaves program in limbo

Zack Colman
April 20, 2007

Although the departure of women's basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie was a sudden shock to the MSU community, officials and team members aren't panicking. "We're going to get a good coach in here, we've got great facilities," Trustee George Perles said.

SOFTBALL

WEB EXTRA: MSU softball team takes 2 games from IPFW

Matt Bishop
April 19, 2007

Wednesday's doubleheader against Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne was just what the doctor ordered for the MSU softball team. The Spartans, on a four game losing streak, jumped on the Mastadons from start to finish, sweeping the twin bill 12-0 in four and a half innings and 8-0 at Old College Field. "I'm thrilled that we played and I'm thrilled that we got to play at home," MSU head coach Jacquie Joseph said.

ICE HOCKEY

Jeff Lerg named Player of the Month

Zack Colman
April 17, 2007

Sophomore goaltender Jeff Lerg was named CSTV: College Sports Television/Hockey Commissioners' Association National Division I Player of the Month on Monday for March and April for his performance in the postseason. Lerg posted a .919 save percentage and a 2.24 goals-against average in those two months.

SPORTS

Monday musings

Tom Keller
April 16, 2007

Zach Johnson finished a stroke over par, but that was good enough to win last week's Masters and take home a $1.3 million purse.

FOOTBALL

Offense takes back green jerseys in 2nd spring scrimmage

Ethan Conley
April 16, 2007

Consider the score even. In the first spring football scrimmage of 2007, MSU's defense beat the offense, 71-70, on March 31. The offense struck back on Saturday, and junior running back Javon Ringer was a big reason why. After failing to break off any long runs in the first scrimmage, Ringer exploded for a 65-yard jaunt to the end zone and finished with 130 yards on 15 carries.

BASEBALL

Late-inning letdown

Tom Keller
April 16, 2007

David Grewe sat at the end of the MSU bench, alone. The dugout was empty, except for a few pieces of equipment and some discarded sunflower seeds on the ground.