The MSU baseball team played against the Niagara Purple Eagles in a home series this past weekend and won two of the three games, pushing the Spartans to 14-15 overall and 7-4 in home games. The Spartans were looking to rebound after a huge 18-0 loss against the Lansing Lugnuts, and in the three-game series, the Spartans won 9-0 and 7-6 and lost 8-6.
The Michigan State softball team got swept in its three-game series against the Indiana Hoosiers this past weekend, losing 6-2, 12-4 and 7-2. With the three losses, the Spartans dropped to 13-22 on the season and 1-8 in conference play, winning only one of its last 10 games.
Michigan State softball has had a rough season so far — the Spartans are 13-19 overall and 1-5 in Big Ten play. On April 5th, however, the Michigan State softball team looks to bounce back from a 1-2 series loss against Iowa as the Spartans will take on Indiana at home in a three-game series over the weekend, the first games they will play at home this season so far.
Michigan State baseball is coming into this weekend's home series against the Niagara University Purple Eagles off of an 18-0 loss to the Lansing Lugnuts, in which the only noteworthy offensive performance was designated hitter Christian Williams, who had Michigan State's only extra-base hit.
The 6-foot-9 native of Mali, West Africa has one year of eligibility remaining.
The 16th annual Crosstown Showdown between Michigan State baseball and the Lansing Lugnuts ended in a dominant 18-0 win for the Lugnuts, marking the 11th time in a row that the Oakland Athletics High-A affiliate team won.
Michigan State basketball assistant coach Mark Montgomery has been hired as the new head coach at the University of Detroit Mercy, the school announced Wednesday. The 54-year-old Montgomery has spent two stints under head coach Tom Izzo, who coached Montgomery as an assistant over 30 years ago at MSU.
The game will be played at Jackson Field in Lansing, right near the Capitol downtown. This is the first of two games MSU will play at Jackson Field, as the Spartans will also play Western Michigan on April 17.
After a historic season for Michigan State men's hockey, the rewards for the past season continues to shower down as head coach Adam Nightingale received a nomination, along with nine other NCAA hockey coaches, for the Spencer Penrose Award for National Coach of the Year. The award is gifted by the American Hockey Coaches Association.
Michigan State baseball played its first Big Ten home series this weekend, winning two of the three games, against Rutgers. With the results from this series, the Spartans jump to 12-14 overall and an even 3-3 in conference play.
In a fight to the finish, the Michigan State Spartans men's hockey team made a historic season run that they had been hunting for the past two seasons under head coach Adam Nightingale.
With the loss to the Wolverines, Michigan State's run in the tournament comes to an end in the Maryland Heights regional final. The Spartans will now look forward to next season, in hopes to regroup and build off of this season.
For the sixth time this season, the Michigan State Spartans will face off in men's hockey against their in-state rivals, the University of Michigan Wolverines. This time around, the game to come is the deciding factor of who goes on to St. Paul, Minnesota to be one of the final four teams in the NCAA Championships, also known as the Frozen Four.
The Michigan State women's tennis team fell to the Purdue Boilermakers, 4-1, which now extends its losing streak to four games. With the loss, the Spartans are now 9-10 overall and 0-5 in Big Ten play.
Michigan State men's hockey, playing in the first round of the men's hockey NCAA Championships, commonly known as the Frozen Four, against Western Michigan University, came back from down 4-2 in the third period to tie the game and eventually emerge victorious in overtime with a 5-4 win. This win, which seemed almost impossible after the first half of the game with how much Western Michigan was dominating the Spartans, marked Michigan State's second 5-4 overtime victory in a row and allowed the team to advance to the regional finals of the Frozen Four on Sunday against the University of Michigan.
The Spartans will play on Sunday at Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights, Missouri, against the winner of the University of North Dakota and University of Michigan game. Puck drop will be at 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 will air the game.
Michigan State baseball has had a rough start to the season, including two losses at Maryland and a loss to Oakland at home, a game in which the Spartans allowed 16 hits and went through seven pitchers. However, the Spartans look to spin things around and possibly take a series win against Rutgers in Michigan State's home series opener against a Big Ten team. The Rutgers are 18-7 and have not played at Big Ten team yet, as opposed to Michigan State's 10-13 record overall and a 1-2 record in Big Ten play.
At the collegiate level, people usually expect someone who averaged 15.4 points per game and 7.3 rebounds per game – eight rebounds per game in Big Ten play – with 65 blocks at the center position to at least have regularly played that position throughout high school. But believe it or not, that stat line comes from MSU women’s basketball player Julia Ayrault, a guard.
The men's hockey NCAA Championships, more commonly known as the Frozen Four, is approaching for the Michigan State hockey team. The Spartans are in an effort to defeat the highly qualified and veteran team of the Western Michigan Broncos, a former CCHA rival from the pre-Big Ten men's hockey conference era.
Michigan State baseball lost to the Oakland Golden Grizzlies 11-7 in the first matchup between the two teams this season, putting the Spartans at a 10-13 overall record so far this season. Despite a great offensive performance by the Spartans, the Grizzlies scored 5 runs in the final three innings, helping push them past Michigan State.