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CHENEY — The most dynamic decade in Eastern Washington University football history officially came to a close on Saturday Feb. 29 with the awards ceremony honoring the 2019 team. The team, which finished 7-5 overall and 6-2 in the Big Sky Conference in a three-way tie for third, missed the postseason, but racked up some impressive statistics in head coach Aaron Best’s third season. Eastern also closed with its 13th-straight winning season and went undefeated at home on the...
Trulove to speak at PEG meeting Former Cheney Mayor Tom Trulove will be the guest speaker at the Sept. 18 meeting of the People for Effective Government (PEG), a Spokane based non-partisan group of center-left and center-right voters who are committed to changing the current polarized and dysfunctional political climate to one of civility and common sense. Dr. Trulove is a five-term former Cheney mayor and professor of economics, emeritus, at Eastern Washington University. The topic of his talk is “Experiences in Effective G...
The defense set the tone early, and eventually held the offensive unit to 269 yards and just a pair of scores as the Eastern Washington University football team concluded preseason practices with a 57-play scrimmage Saturday, Aug. 25 at Roos Field. The offense managed just 42 yards on its first 20 plays, and the defense was solid after that in holding the offense to an average of 4.7 yards per play. The defense had interceptions by senior linebacker Ketner Kupp and sophomore...
There were victories on both sides of the ball, but 506 yards of offense stood out as the Eastern Washington University football team concluded its first two weeks of preseason practices with an 85-play scrimmage Saturday, Aug. 18 at Roos Field. With preseason All-America quarterback Gage Gubrud leading the way, the Eagles completed 24 of 41 passes for 372 yards, with big plays through the air of 55, 42, 41 and 36 yards. The offense also had 134 rushing yards on 44 carries....
Just eight votes separate the two Big Sky Conference rivals who will settle things on the field Oct. 13 in Ogden, Utah. But there is a great deal of football to be played in the weeks leading up to that showdown. Eastern is picked to win the Big Sky Conference title by the league’s head coaches and media, and Weber State is EWU’s only 2018 opponent ranked in the top 25 in the AFCA poll. Montana is No. 25, but the Eagles and Grizzlies don’t play this season. Three other league teams EWU does play received enough votes by th...
The two-time defending Big Sky Conference champions were selected to defend their title, as the Eastern Washington University soccer team was picked to finish first in the Big Sky preseason soccer poll for the second-straight season, the conference announced Aug. 7. The poll is voted on by the league’s 10 head coaches who cannot vote for their own team. The Eagles totaled 78 points and captured eight of the 10 first-place votes in the preseason poll. Northern Colorado was picked to finish second with 69 points and one f...
The Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team returns home this week for a nonconference game against Utah Valley, tonight, Dec. 3, at 6 p.m. at Reese Court. EWU (3-4) is coming off a trip to Austin, Texas, where it faced three high-caliber opponents as part of the Lone Star Showcase. The Eagles opened play against then-No. 19 Northwestern, Nov. 26, narrowly falling to the Wildcats, 74-70. Senior Hayley Hodgins led the team in scoring with 24 points. Junior Ashli Payne had the best performance of her young E...
The Eastern Washington University soccer team fell into a hole too big in the opening round of the Big Sky Conference soccer playoffs, losing to the No. 6 seed, Sacramento State 3-1, Thursday, Nov. 5 in Moscow, Idaho. The Hornets opened scoring on a goal by Jennifer Lum in the eigth minute and added to lead on the first of two goals from Kayla Collins in the 46th minute. Devan Talley got the third-seeded Eagles on the board in the 77th minute with an arcing shot across the 18-yard box that struck the inside of the post and...
The fourth-ranked Eastern Washington University football team seeks to extend its six-game winning streak when the Eagles play their 89th annual Homecoming game this Saturday in an intriguing Big Sky Conference contest versus Northern Arizona at Roos Field. Kickoff is set for 3:05 p.m. Eastern sits atop the Big Sky Conference at 5-0, has won 22 of its last 23 league games, and has been victorious in 19-straight regular season home games. The only conference loss in the last...
Mid-term exams come early for the Eastern Washington University defense and a football team riddled by injuries in the first four games. But after a bye week, the seventh-ranked Eagles will receive their test results when they host Cal Poly Saturday on Hall of Fame Day and Cancer Awareness Day at Roos Field. The game kicks off at 1:05 p.m. The Eagles were successful in their league opener on Sept. 26 at Sacramento State, winning 28-20 to begin their pursuit of their fourth-straight Big Sky title. Eastern’s first four games h...
It may not count in the conference standings, but Sept. 19 will be an intriguing day in the Big Sky Conference football race. Eastern Washington University and Montana State are the split-vote favorites to win the conference title in 2015, and will play each other in a non-conference game at Roos Field on Sept. 19. The three-time defending conference champion Eagles were selected to win the conference title by the media, while the conference’s head coaches picked Montana State. The picks were released July 20 at the Big S...
Five years after winning the award for the first time, Eastern Washington University has again won the Big Sky Conference Presidents’ Cup presented by Red Lion Hotels for the 2014-15 school year, the league office announced July 19. The Eagles won a tiebreaker over runner-up Montana State, while two-time defending champion Northern Arizona was third. The Presidents’ Cup is unique in collegiate athletics in that it honors the dedication to the academic side of the student-athlete experience. Overall athletic success is com...
The sixth-seeded Vanguard, Calif. Lions captured its first-ever NAIA Men's Basketball National Championship with a 70-65 win over No. 8-seeded Emmanuel, Ga.,Tuesday, March 25 in the championship game of the 2014 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Championship in Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. Championship Most Valuable Player Preston Wynne led the way for Vanguard with 20 points and six rebounds, while all-tournament honoree junior guard Chris Gorman...
