EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2013 In its final exhibition game, Michigan State men’s soccer battled to a 2-2 tie with Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana at Alumni Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n
“This was a great test going into our first regular season game next Thursday,” MSU head coach Damon Rensing<\/a> said. “Notre Dame is a very good program and well coached. I thought we started well and created some good chances. We had a really good first goal. Our attackers looked dangerous. There is some great stuff we can learn from this game as well. Once again, everyone played a bit. So all in all, I am very pleased with the game today.”<\/p>\n Senior forward Richie Ludwig<\/a> scored the first Spartan goal. The play started with passes from junior forward Oscar Huerta<\/a> to senior midfielder Leo Conneh<\/a>, who found Ludwig.<\/p>\n Michigan State added a second goal off a set piece. Junior midfielder Brandon Munson<\/a> scored a header off a free kick from senior midfielder Miles Merritt<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Spartans open the 2026 regular season on Thursday, Aug. 20, hosting Albany at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n Michigan State Soccer Ticket Membership are available for $100 for adults & $50 for youth\/senior. Season tickets are on sale now online through the Spartan Ticket Office here or by calling 517-355-1610.\u00a0<\/p>\n To purchase tickets for any Michigan State athletics event, visit the Spartan Ticket Office online at MSUSpartans.com; fans can also call the Spartan Ticket Office at 517-355-1610, or email tickets@msu.edu for questions or more information, or fans can visit the MSU Ticket Office in person, located in 1855 Place.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST LANSING, Mich. \u2013 In its final exhibition game, Michigan State men’s soccer battled to a 2-2 tie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-858677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}