BASKETBALL:
Venters BSC Player of Week
With another efficient scoring performance and two more wins this past week, Eastern Washington’s Steele Venters earned Big Sky Men’s Co-Player of the Week Honors, as announced Jan. 10.
Venters averaged 25.0 points, including a three-pointer with two seconds left in the game, giving the Eagles a 78-75 victory over Sacramento State, Jan. 7. In Eastern’s 92-80 win over Portland State, Venters scored 25 points, helping the Eagles improve to 4-0 in conference play, 10-7 overall and win their sixth straight game.
Idaho’s Isaac Jones shared the honor with Venters.
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Eagle women split first ‘Sky road trip
Eastern’s women returned from their West Coast road trip last week with a split in Big Sky Conference basketball games at Portland State and Sacramento State.
The Eagles won their first road game in the Big Sky play over Portland State 65-56 Jan. 5 and lost 82-74 to Sac State Jan. 7) to conclude the team’s road trip.
Eastern had five players score in double digits, led by Jaydia Martin with 21 points at Sac State. Jacinta Buckley scored 14 points, Alexis Pettis added 13 while Jaleesa Lawrence and Jamie Loera added 10 points each.
Sac. St. led 37-29 at the half and while by the 5:12 point in the third quarte Eastern cut it to 45-40, that’s as close as it got.
Eastern extended its 29-25 lead to 45-35 at the end of three quarters. Portland St. went on an 8-0 run to cut the Eagles lead to 54-48 with 1:23 left but Jamie Loera was clutch at the free throw line down the stretch.
Buckley scored 24 points and grabbed 12 rebounds – her second double-double this season — while Martin 11 and Milly Knowles 10 as Eagles in double figures vs. PSU.
he Eagles are now 1-3 in the Big Sky and 8-6 overall and face the University of Idaho Jan. 14 at 1 p.m. at Reese Court where Eastern men conclude the day with a 3:30 contest with the Vandal men.
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FOOTBALL:
Former EWU coach Schmedding now DC at WSU
Washington State has hired former Eastern Washington assistant Jeff Schmedding as its new defensive coordinator.
Schmedding, who attended high school at University in the Spokane Valley, coached at Eastern for 15 seasons, three as a graduate assistant, before jumping to Boise State to call the Broncos’ defense in 2019.
He followed Boise State head coach Bryan Harsin to Auburn in 2021 and was the linebackers coach and defensive coordinator in 2022.
Schmedding was not retained by newly-hired Auburn coach Hugh Freeze when Harsin was fired during the season.
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