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• EMU's Boss named new MSU baseball coach

  Updated 07/01/2008 7:34pm

  MSU Athletics Director Mark Hollis didn’t have to look far to find his school’s new baseball coach.

• Trio of Spartans selected in pro draft

  Updated 06/08/2008 8:55pm

  Three Spartans were selected in Friday’s MLB First-Year Player Draft.

  Junior catcher Kyle Day was selected in the 12th round by the Cincinnati Reds, while the Detroit Tigers picked up junior pitcher Mark Sorensen in the 32nd round and junior utility player Eric Roof in the 46th round.

• Seniors excel, but Spartans drop season finale

  Updated 05/18/2008 8:40pm

  Despite being mathematically eliminated from postseason play, the seniors on the MSU baseball team left Kobs Field with class in their last collegiate game on Saturday.

  The seniors had big days, but it wasn’t enough to spur a victory, as MSU fell to Indiana 14-5 on Senior Day.

  Evan Friedland led the charge for the seniors with a three-run home run in his last collegiate at bat, while fellow seniors Dennis Jones and Justin Potes each added two hits.

• Spartans eliminated from postseason contention

  Updated 05/16/2008 9:23pm

  The MSU baseball team has been mathematically eliminated from postseason play after losing the first three games in a four game home series set to Indiana.

• MSU struggles in big game, loses 9-2

  Updated 05/15/2008 9:22pm

  MSU starting pitcher Mike Monterey allowed six runs in six innings Thursday, as the Spartan baseball team dropped an important game to Indiana, 9-2, at Kobs Field.

  Every MSU starter had one hit, but junior Kyle Day produced his team’s only runs with a two-run homer in the sixth inning. The home run cut Indiana’s lead to 3-2, but the Hoosiers responded with five runs in the seventh to build a commanding 8-2 lead.

• MSU struggles to find big hits in demanding CMU victory

  Updated 05/14/2008 12:01am

  Mount Pleasant — The MSU baseball team slugged 14 hits and forced seven pitching changes Tuesday night – usually indicators of a blowout victory.

  This time, it was anything but.

  Central Michigan had 15 hits and forced nine pitching changes, as they outlasted MSU, 14-6, in an offensive battle at Theunissen Stadium.

• MSU takes 2 of 3 from Purdue

  Updated 05/12/2008 8:19pm

  It’s crunch time for the MSU baseball team.

  With the season winding down and the Big Ten Tournament approaching, the Spartans desperately need wins.

  They found two of them during a four-game series at Purdue (27-22 overall, 18-9 Big Ten) last weekend, while only letting one game slip.

• Baseball team looks to put it all together to close the season

  Updated 04/24/2008 9:49pm

  David Grewe has what I would imagine to be an exciting problem on his hands.

  Grewe, the MSU baseball coach and one of those great guys who you hate to see lose, has a team of studs who sometimes play like duds.

• Strong pitching serves up MSU win vs. Toledo

  Updated 04/23/2008 9:57pm

  The first three innings of the MSU baseball team’s game against Toledo on Wednesday at Kobs Field looked like the makings of an offensive slugfest.

• Spartans 'fired up' to face Lugnuts in exhibition game

  Updated 04/23/2008 8:59pm

  When the Lansing Lugnuts and the MSU baseball team peer across the field at each other in their respective dugouts, they’ll see players of a different level and a different age.

• After early season slump, Roberts gets control of his batting

  Updated 04/22/2008 8:28pm

  There’s no denying it: Chris Roberts was slumping. Through the MSU baseball team’s first 10 games of the season, the sophomore left fielder was hitting .167 and he wasn’t feeling like himself.

• Senior pitcher gives MSU stability on mound

  Updated 04/21/2008 8:07pm

  Before this season, Chris Cullen bounced around the MSU baseball team’s pitching staff without any firm role. But with a little help from pitching coach Tom Lipari and some offseason work, the senior right-hander has developed into arguably the team’s most dependable starting pitcher, a place head coach David Grewe plans to keep him.

• Spartans allow 52 U-M runs in four-game weekend sweep

  Updated 04/20/2008 8:54pm

  MSU baseball coach David Grewe went into this weekend’s series with Michigan saying the matchup wasn’t a rivalry because one team — the Wolverines — always comes out on top.

• MSU looks to turn U-M series into rivalry

  Updated 04/17/2008 9:19pm

  When the MSU baseball team and Michigan meet for four games this weekend, they’ll travel a short distance to each other’s home fields, but MSU coach David Grewe won’t refer to the cross-state showdown as a “rivalry.”

• Walk this way

  Updated 04/13/2008 9:25pm

  In a game featuring two dominant pitching performances, it was an awkward ending to Sunday afternoon’s doubleheader between MSU (13-16 overall, 4-7 Big Ten) and Ohio State (18-11, 7-4).

• Day in, day out

  Updated 04/10/2008 9:33pm

  More than any other sport, the game of baseball is based on numbers. From batting average to earned run average, every player is judged by the numbers he puts up on the diamond. In the case of junior catcher Kyle Day, the offensive numbers he has put up through 26 games jump off the stat sheet. He leads the Spartans with a .355 batting average, five home runs and 28 RBIs.

• Spartans looking for consistency against Buckeyes

  Updated 04/10/2008 9:02pm

  For the MSU baseball team and head coach David Grewe to right the ship this weekend and get on track for the Big Ten race, they’re going to have to go through the “best of the best.”

• Lugnuts look forward to home opener vs. South Bend

  Updated 04/06/2008 8:34pm

  With a young season and an even younger opening-day roster, Lansing Lugnuts manager Clayton McCullough isn’t as worried about his team’s performance on the field as he is their adaptation to the grind of the professional game.