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SPORTS

Lucas-Perry, Grantham finish Big Ten team tour

Megan Homanick
July 28, 2005

MSU junior guard Victoria Lucas-Perry and junior center Katrina Grantham each scored six points in the fifth and final game of the Big Ten Foreign Tour Team's trip to Europe. The squad finished with a 5-0 record, after a 110-40 rout against Luxembourg Musel Pikes in Remich, Luxembourg, on Monday night. Lucas-Perry led the Big Ten team in rebounding for the tour with an average 4.8 rebounds per game, while averaging 8.2 points and 2.2 assists per game.

SPORTS

Big Ten announces bowls for 2006-09

Megan Homanick
July 26, 2005

Last week, the Big Ten Conference announced its Bowl game lineup for the 2006-09 college football seasons, which will include two new bowls for the conference. The league signed off on four-year extensions with the Capital One, Outback and Alamo Bowls and signed new four-year agreements with the Champs Sports and Insight Bowls.

BASEBALL

Tigers back to .500, can win American League Wild Card

Oct. 2, 2005 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the Minnesota Twins and win the American League Wild Card by one game. At the beginning of the season, the Wild Card spot was just a tiny thought in the minds of Tigers fans. The Chicago White Sox took control of the Central Division early and have run away with the title, while the Tigers slipped below .500 and into third or fourth place, out of contention for any playoff consideration. However, as of Sunday, the Tigers were back to the .500-mark at 49-49 and only four games out of the Wild Card lead, held by Minnesota and Oakland.

SPORTS

Spartans help team push past Belgium

Megan Homanick
July 26, 2005

MSU junior guard Victoria Lucas-Perry and junior center Katrina Grantham and the Big Ten Foreign Tour team continued their winning ways in Belgium on Saturday night, with a 78-77 win over the Belgium National Team in Brussels. Lucas-Perry had 11 points and six rebounds, and Grantham had two points and two rebounds in the victory. Lucas-Perry made only one field goal, but made 9-for-10 from the free-throw line, for her second double-digit point total of the tour.

FOOTBALL

CB Hayes suspended for unknown reasons

Megan Homanick
July 25, 2005

This weekend, MSU football head coach John L. Smith suspended senior cornerback Jaren Hayes for an indefinite period of time. The suspension was for an off-field incident, and it prevents Hayes from participating in any football-related activities. MSU Associate Athletics Director John Lewandowski said there is no timetable for Hayes' return to the team.

SPORTS

Tour team on its way to undefeated streak

Megan Homanick
July 25, 2005

The Big Ten Foreign Tour team and MSU juniors center Katrina Grantham and guard Victoria Lucas-Perry are still undefeated after winning two games over the Netherlands National Team. In a 107-52 win, Grantham had six points and two rebounds, while Lucas-Perry had five points and a team-high five assists. In an 88-52 victory in Amsterdam on Thursday night, the team improved to 3-0 before they headed to Belgium to play the Belgian National Team on Saturday night.

SPORTS

Shimek to start training

Megan Homanick
July 21, 2005

In the next week, MSU could respectively place one woman and one man on the USA World University Games Team and the USA Basketball Men's under-21 Team. From today through Friday, MSU junior guard Shannon Brown will be trying out for the men's under-21 team in Dallas.

SPORTS

Spartans score in Big Ten Foreign Tour

Megan Homanick
July 21, 2005

MSU junior center Katrina Grantham and junior guard Victoria Lucas-Perry had solid performances in their first game on the Big Ten Foreign Tour team. The two players helped the team to a 119-56 win against the Netherlands National Team in the opening game of the team's tour Tuesday night with a combined 24 points and 11 rebounds.

SPORTS

Spartans get verbal commit for fall 2007

Megan Homanick
July 18, 2005

After attending MSU football camp from Sunday through Tuesday last week, Lowell High School junior-to-be quarterback Keith Nichol decided it was the right time to give a verbal commitment to attend MSU in 2007. "There wasn't one coach that I didn't like," Nichol said Thursday.

BASEBALL

Mason names former Notre Dame assistant as baseball coach

Megan Homanick
July 14, 2005

It took MSU athletic director Ron Mason four weeks to find the next MSU head baseball coach, but on Wednesday morning at the Kellogg Center he announced David Grewe will take over that position. "The final decision was mine, but I had some help along the way from some baseball people that I trust," Mason said.

SPORTS

2 MSU golfers named to academic team

Alex Abate
July 14, 2005

Junior Heather Rose and sophomore Kristen Polanski have been selected to the 2004-05 National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team. Rose has a 3.43 grade-point average and has just finished her second season on the golf team.

SPORTS

Grantham, Lucas-Perry on Foreign Tour Team

Megan Homanick
July 11, 2005

MSU junior center Katrina Grantham and junior guard Victoria Lucas-Perry were named to the 2005 Big Ten Women's Basketball Foreign Tour Team on Thursday. "I am really excited about the opportunity to be in a different setting to enhance my basketball skills," Grantham said in a written statement.

SPORTS

Women's basketball gets transfer player

Megan Homanick
July 11, 2005

The MSU women's basketball team has a new member - and she's not a freshman. Guard Mia Johnson, who led Saint Louis University in the 2004-05 season with 17.1 points per game, has announced that she will transfer to MSU this fall.