Spartans honored for academic excellence
Forty-eight MSU athletes were honored Tuesday as the Big Ten announced its spring Academic All-Big Ten team.
Forty-eight MSU athletes were honored Tuesday as the Big Ten announced its spring Academic All-Big Ten team.
MSU sophomore point guard Marcus Taylor might be going from East Lansing to the Far East later this summer.
The MSU womens golf team finished in a 12th-place tie Friday at the 2001 NCAA Womens Golf Championship at Howey-In-The-Hills, Fla.
Dansville High junior Lindsay Bowen will announce her fate as a college basketball player at her 10:30 a.m.
By this time next week, MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo expects to fill the empty seat on his bench - a seat vacated last month when assistant coach Stan Heath took the head coaching job at Kent State. Since Heaths departure, Izzo has promoted his No.
Spartan football recruit Eric Knott reached a plea agreement with prosecutors Tuesday, which may allow him to play for MSU.
LANSING - After losing 9-4 to the Quad City River Bandits on Monday night, the Lansing Lugnuts had a successful, quick turnaround for Tuesday mornings series-ending contest. The game started at 10:35 a.m.
Dream, believe and achieve. MSU womens golf coach Stacy Slobodnik said those three words will appear on the teams Big Ten Championship ring because they have been staples in the Spartans success this season. Now the 16th-ranked Spartans will try to build on their momentum in the NCAA Championship, which starts today at Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.
LANSING - The Lugnuts dropped their fourth-straight game Sunday - a 1-0, 10-inning pitchers duel to the Quad City River Bandits at Oldsmobile Park. After losing the series opener 6-4 to Quad City on Saturday, Bandit second baseman Reggie Gonzalez ended Lansings hopes of taking game two with his game-winning home run off of reliever Ferenc Jongejan (0-2) in the top of the 10th.
The mens and womens track teams both finished in the bottom half of the Big Ten Outdoor Championships in Bloomington, Ind., this weekend, but each had some bright spots. Senior Paul Terek was named the 2001 Big Ten Athlete of the Meet for his record-breaking performance. Terek set a school record and a Big Ten Outdoor Championship record with 7,695 points in the decathlon, automatically qualifying him for the NCAA Outdoor Championship in Eugene, Ore. Terek already held the school record since 1999 and broke it earlier this season with 7,441 points.
The MSU mens and womens track and field teams will be competing in the 2001 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championship this weekend in Bloomington, Ind.Mens coach Darroll Gatson looks forward to strong competition from his athletes during the weekend, while womens coach Angela Goodman looks to use the weekend as a stepping stone for her program.Gatson has high expectations of his team, but there is one standard he has set for his athletes - to compete.Our goal is to be very competitive, Gatson said.
Perhaps you should have seen it coming.The recent success of the MSU mens basketball program has brought national attention to East Lansing and the university.
MSU womens crew coach Bebe Bryans predicted correctly Sunday when she said the first varsity eight boat would have a good chance of making the crew national championships.Bryans said the team was contacted about its NCAA at-large berth right before practice Tuesday and everyone was obviously really excited.The varsity womens crew team has been in competition for four years and has made nationals in all four of its seasons.
After spending the entire year chasing MSUs 7-year-old single-season record for hits, sophomore outfielder Bob Malek finally got over the hump Saturday during the second-to-last game of the season.After tying the record Friday, Maleks 85th and record-breaking hit came during the second game of Saturdays doubleheader against Penn State, when he hit a single up the middle in MSUs 8-7 loss.Hes a team player all the way, MSU head baseball coach Ted Mahan said.
LANSING - It was a game that a mother would love.Although his team lost to the Burlington Bees 9-7 on Mothers Day, Lansing Lugnut manager Julio Garcia said the players, as well as their mothers, should not be disappointed with the performance.The 16-run, 23-hit barrage started right away when Lugnut first baseman Blair Barbier (2-for-4) drove in infielder Adam Morrisey (1-for-3) with a first-inning single.
The MSU womens crew team qualified all four varsity boats Saturday for Sundays Grande Final at the Lexus Central Sprints Regional Championships. But the Spartans finished fifth in Sundays competition with a total of 14 points, as Michigan won the competition with 120 points. The first varsity eight boat had the best showing with a time of 6:42.4 and a fourth-place finish in the final. The second varsity eight boat finished the final with a time of 6:55.6.
The MSU baseball teams postseason hopes were shattered this weekend in State College, Pa., after it dropped four straight games to Penn State. We certainly are disappointed, MSU head baseball coach Ted Mahan said.
Thank you, thank you, one and all. Please be seated. Thank you for voting me as the best reporter on The State News Spring 2001 Sports Desk!
I had never been on the actual field of Spartan Stadium before. So when I got to help cover a football game this season and learned that the press was allowed there for the last few minutes of the game, I was stoked. And luckily for me, the game I chose to cover was one of the most exciting Ive seen in my three years here. Im not sure why MSU has a special rivalry with Notre Dame, but on that Saturday afternoon, there was no doubt that pride and bragging rights lay clearly on the line with the game. We had beat the Irish for the past three seasons, something they werent really used to, and they seemed determine to not let it happen again.
After a hectic semester of eating fast food and racking up frequent flier miles, my job of covering the team became truly worthwhile after MSUs loss to Arizona.