Sports Briefs

Eastern soccer plays scoreless tie, earns shutout win

Eastern Washington earned a pair of shutouts in the start of Big Sky Conference soccer play in a pair of matches at home.

The Eagles opened with a 0-0 tie against Sacramento State on Sept. 22 and followed that with a 4-0 victory over Northern Arizona, Sept. 24.

It took the Eagles less than 20 minutes to find a rhythm as senior Chloe Williams scored the first goal for the Eagles. This marked Williams’ 37th career goal and pushed her to sole possession of second place in the Big Sky All-Time goals.

Other Eagles finding the net wereDelaney Romero, Aimie Inthoulay and Devan Talley. Emily Busselman was in net for the Eagles and had one save.

Emily Busselman was in net for Eastern against Sac State and made six saves and earned her first shutout of the season.

Eastern is now 1-0-1 in the Big Sky Conference and 7-4-1 overall.

The Eagles close out their seven game home stand against Southern Utah on Oct. 1 at noon. EWU then travels to North Dakota and Northern Colorado to continue Big Sky competition before returning home on Oct. 13 to play Portland State. All home games are complimentary to the public.

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Undefeated Eagle volleyball hits road for first tim in BSC play

After opening Big Sky Conference play with a perfect 2-0 record, the Eastern Washington University volleyball team (5-6) is prepping to hit the road for the first conference road trip of the season.

The Eagles open week two of league play on a four-match win streak. EWU looks to make it five straight as they take on Northern Colorado (8-7) tonight (Thursday Sept. 28) before traveling to Grand Forks to take on the defending conference champions, North Dakota (17-2) on Saturday.

In their opening weekend, EWU topped Montana by a score of 3-1 on Sept. 21. After taking the first two sets, Montana fought back to take the third before Eastern sealed the win with a set four victory. Alexandra Espinosa, Ashley Seiler and Regan Harr all recorded double-doubles, while Seiler paced the team with 17 kills. Espinosa also set a career-high 14 kills in the victory as Eastern outhit Montana .181 to .178.

On Saturday, Eastern found themselves down 2-1 to Montana State. In the fourth set, MSU led 24-21 before the Eagles stormed back with five-straight points to win 26-24. The fifth set was also pushed to extra points and Taylor Larsen hammered down the game-winning kills to give EWU a 16-14 victory. Freshman Emma Dunn garnered her first career double-double in the win while Kahle Elliott led the team with a career-high 13 kills.