Coming into this weekend’s first Big Ten game at Ohio State, the men’s soccer team is 2-3. All three losses have come to teams who made the NCAA Tournament last year. So unlike football or basketball, the soccer schedule doesn’t have any gimmick games. Here’s how the team looks heading into conference play.
Preaching team defense all season, the No. 10 MSU field hockey team has shown it on the field. Leading the charge is junior goalkeeper Elissa Unger, who received Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors this week for her play in last weekend’s games against then-No. 18 Boston University and New Hampshire.
This weekend, the MSU women’s golf team hosts the Mary Fossum Invitational, its only home tournament of the season, at Forest Akers West Golf Course.
After Saturday’s game between Purdue and Central Michigan, the third meeting between the teams in 370 days, both sides will probably know each other like brothers.
The MSU volleyball team struggled to extend its winning streak Tuesday night with a 3-1 defeat of Oakland. After a slow start, the team dominated the first set, rallying from a 7-7 tie early on to win the set 25-15.
Senior distance runner Nicole Bush was named Big Ten Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week on Tuesday.
The MSU women’s soccer team’s regularly scheduled 4 p.m. game today has been moved to Okemos High School.
In his less than two years at the helm of the MSU football program, Mark Dantonio has said two characteristics he wanted to see his football team embody are toughness and overcoming adversity.
The Spartan Athletic Ticket Office is accepting requests-with-payment for student men’s basketball admission through Wednesday.
The MSU volleyball team will finish its nonconference schedule this week with matches against Oakland and Central Michigan, the first of which will be played tonight at Jenison Field House.
The Big Ten Players of the Week were announced Monday and three Spartans made the list. For the second straight week, football senior running back Javon Ringer was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week. Ringer ran the ball 43 times and had 282 yards during Saturday’s game — both were career highs.
With water streaming down from the sky and piling up on the sidelines and corners of DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field on Sunday afternoon during the MSU women’s soccer game, MSU sports turf manager Amy Fouty knew the effects from Hurricane Ike that blasted through campus wouldn’t be an every-weekend event.
The No. 10 MSU field hockey team got back on track this weekend with two big wins in New England. The Spartans got off to a hot start, defeating No. 18 Boston University 2-0 on the strength of goals by sophomore forward Angela Pagura and freshman forward Chantae Miller.
A weekend full of downpours couldn’t stop the Spartans’ season-long dominance. The MSU women’s soccer team’s patience and willingness to stick it out in the pouring rain and standing water on the field allowed them to enter the Green and White record books — posting their seventh straight victory in a 3-0 win to Kent State on Sunday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field, the best start in school history.
Saturday was the kind of day when nature is trying to tell you to stay inside, take a nap and not play football. The kind of day when the only person smiling because of nonstop rain is an umbrella salesman. The kind of day when even Sparty, the most macho of mascots, had to don a poncho to stay dry.
The men’s soccer team had its game against Illinois-Chicago canceled Sunday due to standing water at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field. “We were disappointed we couldn’t play,” MSU head coach Joe Baum said. “But once you get standing water on the field, it’s very dangerous for the players.”
On many occasions, inclement weather levels the playing field and gives an underdog a better chance to win. That was hardly the case Saturday, as pass-happy Florida Atlantic had trouble moving the ball through heavy rain at Spartan Stadium.
The wind and rain that engulfed Spartan Stadium on Saturday during MSU’s 17-0 win over Florida Atlantic had many people ringing out their shirts and cursing the weather. Although that sentiment was shared by more than a few fans and players, MSU redshirt freshman guard Joel Foreman was more than happy with the weather conditions.
The MSU volleyball team continued to roll this weekend, winning the MSU Showcase at Jenison Field House for the fifth straight year. The Spartans didn’t drop a set on the weekend, defeating Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Florida A&M and Connecticut to claim the title and stretch their winning streak to six.
MSU running back Javon Ringer picked up where he left off last week with 282 yards on 43 carries — both career highs — to go with two touchdowns as the Spartans beat Florida Atlantic 17-0 on Saturday.