EWU women conclude road trip

On the heels of a three game winning streak, the Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team will finish its Big Sky Conference road trip this weekend at Southern Utah on Thursday, Jan. 14, and Northern Arizona on Saturday, Jan. 16. The games will tipoff-off at 6 p.m. PST and 6:30 p.m., respectively.

This past weekend, the Eagles (3-0 Big Sky, 9-6 overall) defeated Idaho on the road, 74-66. Eastern kept Idaho out of their game, forcing the Vandals into 18 turnovers and keeping them away from their scoring average.

With her 16 points against UI, senior Hayley Hodgins moved up to second on EWU’s all-time scoring list with 1,473 points, passing Kathleen Nygaard, who scored 1,466 points between 2000-04. Hodgins, averaging 19.2 points per game, still has 248 more points before she takes the throne as the Eagles’ top scorer in its NCAA Division I era.

Junior Ashli Payne recorded her third double-double of the season, scoring 15 points and grabbing a career high 16 rebounds against Idaho.

 

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