VanSlooten delivers Michigan State’s NCAA message with a double-double and more

PHOTO: Michigan State coach Robyn Fralick directs her team against Harvard at Reynolds Coliseum on the North Carolina State campus. Visit my homepage: TomShanahan.Report Click here for review and purchase link: THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s. *** By TOM SHANAHAN RALEIGH – Michigan State’s Grace VanSlooten, a transfer from Oregon, heard repeatedly from coach Robyn Fralick and her teammates that the Spartans needed to avoid a repeat of last year’s…

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Michigan State faces Duke in the heart of women’s college soccer

By TOM SHANAHAN DURHAM, N.C. – Michigan State women’s soccer pursuing program history has reached NCAA Tournament’s Sweet Sixteen a second straight season. Adding to the drama is the journey’s backdrop through the women’s college game’s holy land. The Spartans are in the heart of ACC country – widely considered nation’s toughest conference – and play their second game in three days on Duke’s Koskinen Stadium. Duke’s campus is only 11 miles from Chapel Hill, home of the…

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Michigan State women’s soccer upsets Texas 3-2 in OT

PHOTO: Michigan State's Justina Gaynor advances the ball in the Spartans' NCAA win over Texas at Duke. By TOM SHANAHAN DURHAM, N.C. – Michigan State women’s soccer scaled another height on its steady climb to national prominence with its second straight trip to the NCAA tournament’s third round. And the fifth-seeded Spartans (14-2-5) did it in dramatic, resilient fashion – upsetting No. 4 seed Texas (17-4-2) in overtime 3-2 Friday night at Duke University’s Koskinen Stadium Michigan State…

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