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Fourteen Eastern Washington University seniors will not be playing for a Big Sky Championship in 2017, but they still hope to keep their season going. That’s where things stand as the Eagles close out the regular season of Big Sky Conference play on Senior Day, Saturday, Nov. 18 when they entertain the Portland State Vikings in a 3:12 p.m. kickoff at Roos Field. Eastern’s 21-14 win a week ago against the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks was a victory that snapped a tw...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Friday, Nov. 17, EWU at Nevada Las Vegas, 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 20, EWU vs. Georgia State (at MGM Resort, Las Vegas), 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 22, EWU vs. Prairie View/E. Kentucky, time TBD. Friday, Nov. 24, EWU vs. Univ, of Utah, 5 p.m. Women Friday, Nov. 17, EWU hosts BYU, 6:05 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 21, EWU at Oregon, 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25, EWU hosts Utah Valley, 2:05 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Nov. 18, EWU...
Cheney High School cross country runners competed in the NXR Northwest Regional Championships last Saturday, Nov. 11, on the 5,000-meter course at Eagle Island State Park in Boise, Idaho. Running as team Pacific Pod, the Cheney girls finished 20th out of 23 teams while the boys were 23rd out of 39 teams composed of runners from programs throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana and Wyoming. Athletes competed in three divisions — Rising Star, Open and Championship — with Cheney’s contingent running in the Open...
FOOTBALL Sendelbach receives pair of honors Sophomore Jack Sendelbach earned a pair of Big Sky Conference Player of the Week honors after helping lead EWU’s sterling defensive effort in a 21-14 victory over North Dakota on Nov. 11. He was the official Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week announced Nov. 13, and earned the same honor from College Sports Madness after his double-figure tackle performance against UND. Filling in for the suspended Kury Calhoun, the 2015 graduate of Blanchet High School in Seattle finished with 11...
It certainly wasn’t the kind of coverage Gage Gubrud was used to seeing in print. Even following back-to-back losses, his Eastern Washington University Eagle football team had endured that has put their nearly almost automatic playoff season teetering on the tightrope. He and teammate Kurt Calhoun’s official photos used as a “perp walk” in print across the area, and beamed around on television news. Personally, the best photos of the All-American record-setting EWU quarter...
A season that began with a little uncertainty ended with a lot of promise for the future for the Cheney High School girls swimming team. The Blackhawks began 2017 absent several prominent swimmers from 2016 due to graduation, but ended by sending a good contingent to the 2A state meet last Saturday at the Federal Way Aquatics Center. Cheney sent one individual swimmer and one relay team to the consolation finals Saturday evening. Courtney Hanson advanced to the B Final in the 100-yard freestyle. The junior posted a 57.52...
New Eastern Washington men's basketball coach Shantay Legans will be out to prove the polls wrong. In 2016-17 as an assistant to head coach Jim Hayford, who dashed off to Seattle University, Legans helped guide the Eagles to a runner-up finish in the Big Sky Conference after the team was predicted to finish as high as fifth or as low as seventh. Eastern has again been tabbed sixth in media voting and seventh by the coaches in the annual poll released Friday, Oct. 13. Idaho, We...
The Eastern Washington women’s soccer team pushed the defending national champion University of Southern California right to the edge, but not over. The 14th-ranked Eagles lost to the No. 3 Trojans 2-1 in double overtime last Saturday, ending their season — the best in school history — with a 16-6-1 record. USC improved to 15-3-1 and advances to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Eastern lost to USC 3-1 in the first round of the 2016 tournament in the school’s only previ...
CHENEY Nov. 6 Sarah B. Littlejohn, 38, was arrested on the 100 block of Alki Street for third-degree driving while license suspended (DWLS). A 13-year-old male was arrested on the 700 block of Betz Road for fourth-degree assault. A permanent residency card was found somewhere in Cheney and dropped off at the police department. A cellphone was found on the 600 block of Second Street. Nov. 7 Second-degree burglary/forced entry was reported on the 1300 block of First Street. A set of keys was taken. Alexis N. Welch-Pritchard,...
