For more than 58 minutes Saturday, the MSU football team shut down Ricky Stanzi. But as the Iowa quarterback’s offense took the field with 97 seconds remaining and 70 yards ahead of them, they saw something they previously didn’t see much of — a three-man MSU defensive front.
Isaiah Dahlman is knocking on wood. And after all the senior guard has been through, who can blame him?
Corey Tropp, a junior forward on the MSU hockey team, was named CCHA Offensive Player of the Week, the Big Ten announced.
Within 10 minutes, two MSU teams almost suffered identical fates. The news of the MSU football team’s heartbreaking loss on the last play of the game against Iowa made its way to Oxford, Ohio at 10:24 p.m.
With the Big Ten title on the line and its in-state rivals having just tied the score at one, the No. 8 MSU field hockey team looked to two of its key players to put together the go-ahead goal.
Mark Dantonio stood on the sidelines with a blank, almost bewildered look on his face. Several players lay on the field in the midst of a large Hawkeyes celebration. A frenzied Spartan Stadium crowd, at a fever pitch prior, was eerily silent.
The MSU men’s golf team finished in eighth place at the 15-team UNCG Bridgestone Golf Collegiate in Greensboro, N.C., this weekend, shooting a 7-over score of 871.
The No. 6 MSU women’s golf team closed out its fall season with a 10th place finish at the NCAA Preview at the Pete Dye Course at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, N.C.
The MSU volleyball team had another close match this weekend, but were unable to stop a five-game slide in falling 3-2 at No. 9 Minnesota Friday.
Last season, the MSU field hockey team had a strong run and finished near the top of the Big Ten, but fell one step short of accomplishing all its goals. The Spartans finished second in the conference and lost one round short of reaching the Final Four.
A shot by Minnesota’s Tamara Strahota ricocheted off junior defender Samantha Cook and into the net, and it looked as though that fluke play would send the MSU women’s soccer team to yet another deflating loss.
The Big Bear Trophy was up for grabs Sunday afternoon. But the MSU men’s soccer team is returning it to its cage in the Spartans’ locker room, as they defeated Michigan 2-1 on Sunday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field.
Saturday’s men’s basketball Green and White game meant ditto in the win and loss column, but provided fans with a first-hand look at some of the team’s biggest story lines entering the season.
The Nittany Lions defeated the Wolverines on Saturday for the first time at Michigan Stadium since 1996. Penn State quarterback Daryll Clark went 16-for-27 for 240 yards and four touchdowns for the Nittany Lions (7-1 overall, 3-1 Big Ten)
MSU women’s soccer head coach Tom Saxton chuckled Friday as he talked about yet another season-ending injury for the Spartans, stating that freshman midfielder Jordan Mueller will miss the remainder of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Junior forward Andrew Rowe made two smooth moves to slide by defenders before taking a hard wrist shot at the net from the high slot. And that’s all he remembers.
In the blink of an eye, a potential MSU upset vanished and quickly turned into a devastating defeat.
Oxford, Ohio — The MSU hockey team didn’t walk out of Steve Cady Arena victorious Friday night. But the Spartans proved a point — they can play with the best team in the country.
The MSU women’s soccer team had plenty of chances Friday, but a defensive breakdown in the first half led the Spartans to another heartbreaking loss.
As senior defensive end Trevor Anderson answered questions from reporters following practice Tuesday, it was clear his mind was elsewhere.