Eastern closes volleyball season falling short of Big Sky Conference tourney

The door finally closed on Eastern Washington’s slim chances at qualifying for the Big Sky Conference’s postseason volleyball tournament, but it took until the very end — a five-set loss to North Dakota last Saturday at Reese Court.

The Eagles jumped to a two-set to none lead on Senior Night, but were not able to maintain and lost 3-2. Set scores were 25-20, 25-23, 13-25, 17-25 and 7-15.

Eastern needed to defeat UND while Southern Utah had to fall at Sacramento State since the Thunderbirds owned the head-to-head tiebreaker.

Eastern finished with a 9-20 overall won-lost record and 5-11 in confe...

 

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