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The third-ranked Football Championship Subdivision Eastern Washington University Eagles rallied to score a 35-28 Big Sky Conference football victory over the Portland State Vikings at Providence Park, Nov. 18. With the win, the Eagles (8-0 Big Sky, 10-1 overall) tied the University of North Dakota for the conference title. Eastern equaled its best regular season finish in 108 years of football and finished with its second unbeaten Big Sky season in 30 years in the conference....
Eastern women are home Sunday The Eastern Washington University women earned their first basketball victory of the young season, topping Furman, 68-56 in the Preseason WNIT Consolation Bracket on Saturday, Nov. 19 in Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Senior Ashley Payne lit up the scoreboard from long range with a team-high 20 points on four 3-point shots to lead the Eagles. Junior Delaney Hodgins picked up the season’s first double-double on 15 points and 10 boards, while junior Tisha Phillips scored a season-best 14 points in the win. I...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Friday, Nov. 26, EWU hosts Denver University in EWU Men’s Basketball Classic, 6:05 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, EWU hosts Univ. of San Francisco in EWU Men’s Basketball Classic, 6:05 p.m. Women Sunday, Nov. 27, EWU hosts Multnomah, 3 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Dec. 3, EWU hosts NCAA quarterfinal playoff versus Central Arkansas or Illinois State, 1 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Boys Saturday, Nov. 26, Medical Lake at North Cen...
Puls is first repeat winner Jim Puls from Reardan claimed the top spot in Week 7 of the 2016 Cheney Free Press football contest, earning a $50 merchant’s gift certificate and missing just one game. Puls won the top spot in Week 6, too. Arlene Helsing from Cheney was runner-up with two losses and won a $20 Owl Drug gift certificate. Winners must come to the Free Press office at 1616 W. First St. in Cheney to pick up their prizes. Be sure to try to beat the Free Press experts by playing this week. See the entry form on page 3...
Just how far has the Medical Lake girl’s soccer program risen in three years? Simple statistics easily illustrate the answer. In 2014 an 0-14 team scored just six times and the 3-13 team head coach Zane Higgins guided in 2015 and hoped to build upon that for this season netted 18. The recently completed season that saw Medical Lake battle for the regular season Northeast A League title until the final two weeks of the campaign, saw them more than double the number of wins ...
The decision was made once and for all well in advance of the events of Nov. 11–13 in Dallas, Texas. But the broken shoulder Ryan Gray suffered during the final weekend of the inaugural season of the Elite Rodeo Athletes tour certainly made his decision to retire that much easier. Bigger forces were at work pulling the Cheney High School grad off the wild bareback horses on which he has made a living since 2002. Word of him hanging up the spurs circulated through the U.S. Airlines Arena in Dallas and on social media. And Gray...
November and December have pretty much been the property of the Eastern Washington University football team for several years on campus. Basketball will stake its claim for some of that territory this week as while the football team takes the week off with a bye prior to a Dec. 3 playoff game. After years of playing just periodically at home in the preseason, the Eagles began a span of playing four games in seven days in two separate tournaments. Upcoming at Reese Court...
Eastern Washington got its reward for a job well done the past 12 weeks last Sunday morning in the NCAA playoff selection show. The 10-1 Eagles and 2016 Big Sky Conference co-champions, earned a No. 2 seeding and home games at Roos Field as long as they keep winning in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. In other words, once again the return road to Frisco, Texas and the Saturday, Jan. 7 national championship game runs through the red turf at Roos Field. "It's...
