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  • Eagle football top fund-raising school at Polar Plunge

    Updated Feb 28, 2013

    The Eastern Washington University football team won the award as the top fundraising school at Saturday’s (Feb. 23) Polar Plunge at Liberty Lake. A group of about 20 players helped raise approximately $700 for Special Olympics, and were led by linebacker Ronnie Hamlin, offensive guard Steven Forgette and center Ashton Miller. Eastern athletics academic advisor Jim Fitzgerald and faculty athletic representative Laurie Morley also took the plunge. The Polar Plunge required p...

  • Two more Eagles earn All-Conference honors at BSC indoor

    NEWS SERVICE REPORTS|Updated Feb 28, 2013

    FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS The Eastern Washington University track and field team brought its all-conference performance total to four Feb. 23 at the Big Sky Indoor Championships in Bozeman, Mont. Highlighting the day for the Eagles was Jordan Arakawa, who had a huge personal-best toss of 65 feet, 4 inches in the weight throw to place second. That mark earned Arakawa all-conference honors and moved him up to second all-time in school history behind school-record holder David Paul (68-8 1/2). “Jordan had a tremendous meet and l...

  • Wrestling not a core Olympic sport – are you kidding me?

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated Feb 28, 2013

    I would have figured that by now, sensible heads would prevail. But then again, we’re dealing with the International Olympic Committee. As of this writing, wrestling is still out of the 2020 Olympic Games. I know it’s incredible. It was stunning enough when the IOC announced Feb. 12 that they voted to remove the sport in the first place, replacing it with what, we don’t know just yet but electing to keep the “sport” most experts figured would go – modern pentathlon. That is a combination of fencing, horse riding – show jumpin...

  • EWU finally gets ‘W’ versus SHSU

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 28, 2013

    Finally there was a lead that held up, or a game where Eastern Washington didn’t have to play catch-up against Sam Houston State University. Of course it took place on the basketball court and not the football field, as had two past meetings between the schools. With a combination of a single-game Big Sky Conference record of blocking 16 Bearkat shots, and getting four players in double figure scoring, the Eagles scored an 81-76 non-conference ESPN BracketBusters men’s bas...

  • Eastern women get dominating win over PSU

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 28, 2013

    Fresh from their most dominating performance of the season in an 83-51 Big Sky Conference women’s basketball win over Portland State last Thursday at Reese Court, Eastern Washington hopes to carry forward momentum earned from two straight wins on the road this week. Paced by a career high 24 points from freshman Hayley Hodgins, the Eagles clinched a spot in the 2013 conference tournament and helped Eastern claim the Dam Cup competition between EWU and PSU. Eastern (11-5 Big S...

  • Eastern football hauls in, hands out 2012 awards

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 28, 2013

    Eastern Washington’s football season came to an end on the football field following a disappointing 45-42 loss to Sam Houston State University in the semifinals of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs Dec. 15. It officially came to a close last Sunday night at the Pence Union Building with a sold out annual awards banquet. The evening was a time where seniors were honored – some lightly roasted – and the accomplishments of many others acknowledged by various coach...