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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...
A graduate of Eastern Washington University’s ROTC program has been named the new commander of one of the U.S. Army’s most prestigious and historical units. Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky will take over command of the 101st Airborne Division, known as the “Screaming Eagles,” one of 10 active divisions in the Army and the only one designated specifically as an air assault division. Volesky was promoted to the new rank from lieutenant colonel on March 12, 2014. A date when he will assume command of the 101st has yet to be determi...
Ronnie Hamlin and that trademark hair flowing out of his helmet will return for another season with the Eastern Washington University football team. Nearing the school record with a current career total of 361 tackles in 40 games, the Eagles' linebacker and Buck Buchanan Award candidate will return for the 2014 season after recently being given a sixth year by the NCAA. The extra year of eligibility replaces two seasons wiped out because of injuries. He is a 2009 graduate of...
Eastern Washington women’s basketball head coach Wendy Schuller wasn’t too excited about her team having to travel through Western Montana, and that was just the bus ride. Following an 0-2 results after losing a late lead - and the game - 78-74 at Montana State last Saturday, an outcome that came on the heels of an 81-64 loss at Montana last Thursday, the Eagles are glad to be home at Reese Court again. The two-game home stand begins tonight (Jan. 16) against Northern Arizona (0-3 Big Sky, 4-9 overall) at 6 p.m. and fol...
Eastern Washington fell short of the tall order of toppling legendary basketball giant, the University of Connecticut, but it certainly was not for lack of trying. The Eagles hung with the No. 15 UConn Huskies off and on most of the game before falling 82-65 last Saturday at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. as Eastern concluded its nonconference schedule. The Eagles spent the week of Christmas on the East Coast opening with a 92-70 loss to Seton Hall Dec. 22. “It was a good day for us even though we didn’t get the win...
Bursting onto the scene with the best season by a freshman wide receiver in NCAA Football Championship Subdivision history, EWU receiver Cooper Kupp has been selected by The Sports Network as the recipient of the Jerry Rice Award given to the top freshman in FCS football. The award was presented Monday, Dec. 16 at The Sports Network's FCS Awards Banquet and Presentation in Philadelphia. "It's a great honor to receive an award named after the best receiver of all-time," Kupp...
The Eastern Washington women's basketball team put one of their best efforts of the season on display last Friday night at Reese Court and earned a long-awaited first victory of the season with a 73-53 conquest of Cal State Northridge. Senior center Laura Hughes led three Eagles in double-figures with a career-high 21 points for Eastern, now 1-5 with another home game Saturday at 7 p.m. against the University of Idaho. The game was scheduled for 2 p.m. but the Eastern...
Keisa Monterola of the Eastern Washington University women’s track and field team was selected as the Big Sky Conference women’s field athlete of the week for the week of Dec. 10 after a stellar season-opening performance in the pole vault at the Candy Cane VI Invitational Dec. 7 in Cheney. Monterola entered the competition with the bar at 13 feet, 5 1/4 inches and cleared it on her second attempt, qualifying for the Big Sky Championships in Pocatello, Feb. 27-March 1. That mark sits atop the Big Sky performance list and thi...
Eastern Washington found out just how tough the St. Mary's Gaels can be at McKeon Pavilion. Brad Waldow led five Saint Mary's players in double figures with 20 points, eight rebounds and a blocked shot as the West Coast Conference Gaels beat Eastern 93-65 last Sunday and won their 25th straight home game against nonconference opponents in Moraga, Calif. "Saint Mary's is a better team than I thought – they whooped us," said Eastern head coach Jim Hayford. "They are a very good...
Uriel Iñiguez, one of six siblings to graduate from Eastern Washington University and the father of a current EWU student, has been appointed the university’s Board of Trustees by Gov. Jay Inslee, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Iñiguez is the oldest of 11 children, all of whom were first-generation college students – a dream come true for a family whose parents came to this country from Mexico with no formal education. Uriel holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus on human resources from Eastern and he...
The Eastern Washington women’s basketball team’s most recent road trip came up empty as they went winless in a pair of games last weekend in Las Vegas. Now Eastern will be home through the entire month of December and into the first week of 2014 with a seven-game home stand shooting to get momentum heading into conference play. The Eagles were unable to overcome a nine-minute scoring drought spanning the end of the first half and the start of the second, falling, 74-51, to Butler last Saturday, Nov. 30 in the South Point Tha...
Eastern Washington University Women's Soccer head coach George Hageage will step down from his post at the conclusion of his contract Nov. 30, 2013, announced by athletic director Bill Chaves Monday, Oct. 28. Assistant coach Julio Morales will lead the program on an interim basis while a national coaching search is conducted. "We appreciate Coach Hageage's 14 years of service to our women's soccer program, the university and the greater Spokane community," Chaves said in a new...
The partial federal government shutdown hit the West Plains earlier this week at Fairchild Air Force Base, where some services were temporarily suspended due to the inaction in Washington, D.C. According to a press release by Fairchild, approximately 300 civilian members and 248 inactive guardsmen were furloughed as a result of the shutdown. Military health care is still available for those who are enrolled. “Private sector care under TRICARE will continue, as will inpatient, acute and emergency outpatient care in m...
After splitting a pair of matches to open Big Sky play last week, the Eastern Washington women’s volleyball team welcomes the Montana schools to Reese Court for a pair of league showdowns this weekend. The Eagles square off with Montana State Thursday, Sept. 26, before taking on the Griz Saturday, Sept. 28. Both matches are set for 6 p.m. starts. Eastern (4-9, 1-1 Big Sky) experienced both ends of the emotional spectrum last week, earning a thrilling comeback win against visiting Sacramento State last Thursday, Sept. 19, befo...
Eastern Washington will take its 3-8 preseason record, and strides made during playing some of the toughest volleyball teams in the nation into tonight’s Big Sky Conference opening match against Sacramento State beginning at 6 p.m. at Reese Court. The Eagles were beaten last Saturday 3-0 by USC, the nation’s top-ranked collegiate team by scores of 12-25, 23-25, 21-25 in the wrap-up of the University of San Diego Tournament. Earlier in the day EWU fell to host USD (3-0), the country’s No. 9 team, by scores of 16-25, 12-25...
After challenging the Toledo Rockets and beating them off the launch pad, Eastern Washington ran out of fuel in a 33-21 nonconference loss last Saturday at the Glass Bowl in the Ohio city along Lake Erie. The Mid American Conference Football Bowl Subdivision Rockets (1-2) played a turnover-free game in handing the Big Sky Conference Eagles (2-1) their first defeat of the season. While Eastern’s two turnovers – a fumble and an interception – didn’t lead to Toledo points,...
The longest road trip of the season for the Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team got off to a bad start even before they took to the court last Thursday in Grand Forks, N.D. A van wreck following Wednesday’s shoot-around injured seniors Kevin Winford and Jeffrey Forbes, knocking them out of the lineup for a pair of games the Eagles lost 65-47 to NDU and 72-56 in Greeley to Northern Colorado Saturday. The losses were the Eagles’ third straight and sent them into last place in the Big Sky Conference with a 2-6 r...
FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS The Edmonton Eskimos announced they had signed the Canadian Football League’s Most Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year, J.C. Sherritt, to a contract extension. That keeps the former Eastern Eagle out of free agency in February. The new deal will keep Sherritt in Edmonton through the 2015 season. Terms of the contract will not be disclosed. “When I found out that (general manager) Ed (Hervey) and (head coach) Kavis (Reed) were going to be coming back and be running this org...
On one hand the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team is in familiar territory as they open Big Sky Conference play – on the road – where they have played eight of their first 11 games. New to head coach Wendy Schuller’s crew is for the first time in her 12-year tenure, the Eagles begin their Big Sky Conference slate before Christmas break. With 11 teams now in the league, and 20 conference games, the Eagles must make an early debut - and this year, that debut is on the road. Eastern plays Weber State tonight (Dec. 2...
Wade Benson is returning to familiar territory. The man who made history during his his seven seasons as head volleyball coach at Eastern Washington University will return to that position it was announced Tuesday, Dec. 18. Benson replaces interim head coach Lisa Westlake, who had stepped in after former head coach Miles Kydd resigned in August. “We are very excited to welcome coach Benson back into the Eagle family,” EWU athletics director Bill Chaves said in a news rel...
This fall, students in Eastern Washington University’s Department of Psychology will spend Thursday afternoons learning principles of compassion and practice from a world-renowned scholar and teacher - Venerable Geshe Thupten Phelgye (Geh-shay Toop-ten Pel-gay). A Tibetan monk, Phelgye is founder of the Universal Compassion Movement (UMC) and a member of the Dalai Lama’s Parliament-in-Exile. While serving as a Scholar in Residence at EWU, he will offer a seminar on Buddhist psychology. The discussion-focused course will int...
