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SPORTS

Transfers make impact on mats

Chris Mackinder
January 9, 2002

With a 2-1 record thus far, the Spartan wrestlers are not only in good shape for this season, they have four junior college national champion transfer students hoping to lead the way. Arsen Aleksanyan, Rashad Evans, Anton Hall and Ryan L’Amoreaux have provided the Spartans with valuable depth. MSU head coach Tom Minkel said the Spartans don’t recruit just anybody, they look for potential. “You have to know they can compete at the national level,” Minkel said.

ICE HOCKEY

Spartan hockey has success with new ripples

James Jahnke
January 8, 2002

The new year found three new faces in the Spartan lineup searching for, well, new beginnings.MSU head coach Ron Mason used a nonconference series against overmatched Quinnipiac to insert freshman goaltender Matt Migliaccio, junior left wing Steve Clark and redshirt sophomore forward Pat Brush into the Spartan lineup.Each played one game of the series - Clark in Friday’s 4-1 win and Migliaccio and Brush in Saturday’s 3-1 victory - but all hope the appearances won’t be their only cameos of the 2002 campaign.“I try to approach every weekend as if I was going to play,” said Brush, who had played in one previous game on Jan.

SPORTS

Baseball get new assistant coach

Andrew Fifer
January 8, 2002

The new year brings new honors for two MSU freshmen. After being selected as second-team Freshman All-Americans by The Sporting News last month, offensive guard William Whitticker and linebacker Ronald Stanley made the Football News Freshman All-America teams. Whitticker received first-team honors after starting 11 of 12 games this season.

FOOTBALL

Freshman named All-Americans

Andrew Fifer
January 8, 2002

The new year brings new honors for two Michigan State freshmen. After being selected as second-team Freshman All-Americans by The Sporting News last month, offensive guard William Whitticker and linebacker Ronald Stanley made the Football News Freshman All-America teams. Whitticker received first-team honors after starting 11 of 12 games this season.

SPORTS

Lions fans bid farewell to dome

Dan Woike
January 7, 2002

Pontiac, Mich. - In a game closing out the season between two cellar-dwelling teams, one might expect something other than an enthusiastic crowd. But when the Detroit Lions (2-14) downed the Dallas Cowboys (5-11) 15-10, more than just two disappointing seasons came to an end - a chapter in Detroit Lions football history concluded with the final game at the Silverdome. Lions fans from throughout the country converged on the Silverdome one last time, and for Bill Vanfaasen the move to Ford Field in downtown Detroit couldn‘t come soon enough. Vanfaasen, formerly of Holland, Mich., has been driving from Green Bay, Wisc.

SPORTS

Spartans make noise on national television

Dan Woike
January 7, 2002

To believe it you had to see it. After 40 minutes of inspired play, the Spartan women’s basketball team made believers of one of the nation’s elite teams and a national television audience. MSU’s (9-3, 0-2 Big Ten) shocking 70-49 win over previously unbeaten No.

FOOTBALL

Offense rolls in 44-35 victory

Eric Mckinney
January 7, 2002

With an offensive attack never seen before in MSU football history, the Spartans rolled to a 44-35 victory over Fresno State in the Silicon Valley Football Classic. The Spartans set MSU bowl game records with 44 points, 586 total net yards, 376 net yards passing and 210 net yards rushing. “We had a great game plan going into the game,” said sophomore quarterback Jeff Smoker, who threw for an MSU bowl record 376 yards.

SPORTS

Sports Briefs

Swimming MSU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams finished competition Saturday in the 26th annual Rainbow Invitational hosted by the University of Hawaii.

ICE HOCKEY

Icers skate to weekend sweep over Quinnipiac

James Jahnke
January 7, 2002

The sixth-ranked Spartans got exactly what they wanted from Quinnipiac this weekend - two hard-fought games and two victories.MSU (15-4-2) overwhelmed its nicknameless foe 4-1 Friday and 3-1 Saturday in the nonconference series at Munn Ice Arena.

SPORTS

Poor shooting leads to loss in Ann Arbor for womens hoops

Dan Woike
January 3, 2002

Ann Arbor - One of two things needed to happen Wednesday night if the Spartan women’s basketball team was going to leave Crisler Arena with a win against Michigan - they’d have to either hit their shots from the inside or the outside. But neither happened on a consistent basis as the MSU (9-3, 0-2 Big Ten), dropped its second-straight Big Ten contest 58-45 to the Wolverines (10-3, 1-2). Wolverine center LeAnn Bies led all scorers with 17 points while grabbing 11 rebounds, and forward Jennifer Smith added 14 points to go along with her 11 boards for U-M. Junior forward Syreeta Bromfield led the Spartan offense with 14 points on 6-of-22 shooting from the floor. MSU’s shooting woes continued throughout the contest, as the team managed to hit only 19 of 63 shots, including a 2-of-19 night from behind the three-point arch. “We shot a horrible percentage,” Spartan head coach Joanne P.

SPORTS

Womens hoops plays over break

Dan Woike
December 7, 2001

While many students are sledding and sipping eggnog, the MSU women’s basketball team won’t have as much time to enjoy the “break” aspect of “winter break.” The Spartans (7-1) face two more nonconference foes during break before opening up the Big Ten season at 2 p.m.