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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...
