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Eagles falter, lose to Griz

MISSOULA – When it counted the most, the team that prides itself on its offense couldn't get it done. Eastern Washington failed to score on its final four possessions over the last 2 minutes, 40 seconds of the game and let Montana score the last five points to escape with a critical 85-78 Big Sky Conference win Saturday night at Dahlberg Arena.
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Eastern forward suspended

MISSOULA – Derek Risper, a backup forward on the Eastern Washington basketball team, has been suspended. "He was sent home for disciplinary reasons," Eagles coach Mike Burns said Friday afternoon. "It's an indefinite suspension for violation of team rules. We'll address it when we get home."
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Bobcats shoot by Eagles

BOZEMAN, Mont. – It's hard to believe Montana State could hurt Eastern Washington much more than it did in December, when the Bobcats opened Big Sky Conference men's basketball play by hitting 13 of 32 3-pointers, including a game-ending buzzer-beater, to defeat the Eagles 82-79. But they did.
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Voice of the Eagles also puzzled

There have been plenty of highs and lows for Larry Weir in his 16 seasons of broadcasting Eastern Washington basketball and football games. With the Eagles basketball team falling short of the high expectations with an 11-11 record, 5-5 in the Big Sky Conference, it seemed like a good time to get his take as well as get to know him. We'll start with the questions every Eagles fan wants to ask.
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Bradley breaks through for second place

The duel was over, the king was dethroned, the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were over. Someone forgot to tell Ryan Bradley – and Saturday night's Spokane Arena crowd of 9,170, for that matter.
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Common passions

Angie Lien did not have a good day but you'd never know it by her smile. "I like to perform, even though I didn't perform my best today," she said earnestly. That explains why she is skating, even though at 26 years old she's is almost twice the age of budding star Rachael Flatt, who finished 44 points and 15 places ahead of her as the Senior Ladies competition wrapped up in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the Arena Saturday afternoon.
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Drama awaits on final night

Two titles up for grabs, with two rivals up front and deep fields behind them. That is the stage set for both the Senior men's and women's free skate finals today at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. The men's 6:15 p.m. competition will likely come down to the winner of a battle between three-time defending champion Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek. There is a strong group of skaters battling for a third spot on the podium.
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Halverson in command on way to title

From the moment Eliot Halverson skated onto the ice at the Spokane Arena Friday morning he was in control. After that, all he had to do was watch the competition fall by the wayside.
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Halverson skates like a dream in short program

There is nothing more Eliot Halverson would like to do than see double. The 16-year-old from St. Paul, Minn., was cool, calm and positively pleased Wednesday afternoon after taking the lead after the Junior Men's short program before a standing room crowd of 4,000 at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the Convention Center.
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Stars and skates

The telephone call was expected. The face that went with it wasn't. Tim McKernan and Piper Gilles headed out for the first day of the Junior Dance competition at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships after a good-luck call from McKernan's father in Afghanistan.
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Dancers chase best in business

Spokane is breaking new ground in American figure skating circles. It's not because the Lilac City is the smallest city to host the U.S. Figure Skating championships nor the fact that the weeklong event that began Sunday morning could set an attendance record by next weekend's conclusion.
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Stuckey, Penoncello find range as Eagles topple Bears

Once again the defense was invisible, but this time it was a temporary disappearance. Feeding off a strong defense in the final 11 minutes, Eastern Washington pulled away to dispatch Northern Colorado 91-79 for a critical Big Sky Conference basketball win Saturday night before 3,327 fans at Reese Court.
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Defense rests

Maybe 109 points weren't enough. Maybe the 60 percent shooting wasn't enough.
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Baldwin lands Central job

The dream takes life today. Central Washington will introduce Eastern Washington offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Beau Baldwin as its 21st head football coach at 11 a.m.
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Eagles await hot streak

This season was going to be different for the Eastern Washington basketball team with a new up-tempo offense, tweaked lineup, more – and more talented – depth and Rodney Stuckey. Expectations were sky high for the Eagles and their potential All-American who single-handedly put Eastern on the national radar.
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Cougars improving

Sherri Murrell isn't into moral victories. She was just as disappointed by the seven-point loss to then No. 22 California on Thursday and eight-point loss to No. 10 Stanford on Saturday as she was when ranked teams spanked her Washington State Cougars by 40 or 50 points in years past.
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Area women: Hawk zeros in as GU overcomes Santa Clara

The Gonzaga Bulldogs were so busy looking outside they almost got beat inside. The Zags took away Santa Clara's outside game but gave up 36 inside, including a career-high 30 from Jen Gottschalk, to pull out a 78-73 overtime basketball win in a West Coast Conference showdown Thursday night at McCarthey Athletic Center.
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Defense serving Zags

The weekend for the Gonzaga women's basketball team was kind of like one of those ill-advised shots that goes in – you're thinking, "No, no, no!" and then yelling, "Yes!" The Bulldogs opened West Coast Conference play at Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine, the teams picked to finish 1-2 in the preseason coaches' poll.
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Eagles may open at Hawaii in fall

It's not official, but it appears Eastern Washington is going to fill out its 2007 football schedule with a season-opening game in Hawaii. "We are not scheduled to play," EWU athletic director Darren Hamilton said. "We are in negotiations, but we are not scheduled to play."
Sports

Role player deluxe

Mike Kelly couldn't be more proud of his daughter's solid four-year career playing basketball at Davidson. Make that eight years, as Brynn Kelly started for four years at Ferris before heading to North Carolina. But every once in a while the father who coached his daughter in youth basketball – and now referees for "atonement" – admits to a little frustration.
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Sun Devils bag Zags

Tom Johnson tugged on his son's No. 32 Arizona State football jersey to match his son-in-law Cameron Barclift before they settled into the front row at McCarthey Athletic Center, but Aubree Johnson surprised her family by switching to No. 5 to honor her brother. From there, it was business as usual.
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Johnsons find solace

At times the emphasis on athletics spirals out of control, but at other times there can be no greater comfort than sports. With hope, Aubree Johnson will find that comfort tonight when she plays basketball with her Arizona State teammates for the first time since the shocking death of her 15-year-old brother Jordan on Nov. 25.
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Freshmen making big impact locally

A handful of freshmen have made a big splash on area women's basketball teams early in the season. Washington State's Marisa Stotler had back-to-back double-doubles off the bench, Heather Bowman has had a couple of big games for Gonzaga and Katie Madison turned in a monster game for Idaho.
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Eagles win despite lost focus

All that needs to be said about Eastern Washington's 90-81 win over Eastern Oregon at Reese Court Wednesday night was that Eagles star Rodney Stuckey, who departed early with the lead at 18, had to re-enter the game with 1 minute, 27 seconds left. "I'm happy that we won," EWU coach Mike Burns said. "We have to tip our hats to coach (Ryan) Looney and his team for playing like a team that deserved to be in that game. And they were until the end. Eastern Oregon is a good basketball team and they proved that with their hard play tonight."