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January adds heat to Sun Devils

On a cool summer day in Spokane, Briann January boarded a plane to go to college. When she disembarked she was slapped by the sweltering heat of Arizona. Then came the standard bout of freshman homesickness.
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Halfway, area teams not there

Obviously there is a lot of basketball yet to be played. The Pacific-10 Conference women's basketball season is halfway over; the West Coast Conference reaches the mid-pole this weekend; the Western Athletic Conference is almost there; and the Big Sky Conference has barely started.
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Eastern grinds out victory over Weber

It wasn't the kind of game that gets shown to recruits, but it was the kind of win that coaches like to talk about. The young Eastern Washington Eagles displayed patience and poise, "grinding," to use coach Mike Burns' favorite phrase, to a 59-50 win over Weber State before 2,511 fans at Reese Court on Saturday night.
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Eagles overcome Bengals

The last time the Eastern Washington Eagles were at Reese Court they were lethargic and in the process of building a five-game losing streak. They stopped the skid last week at Portland State by tweaking the lineup and rediscovering their energy and put it on display Thursday night at home before 1,405 fans, defeating Idaho State 80-64.
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Grant has another big year

The Seattle Pacific women's basketball team is having another fine season, but unless the Falcons win every game en route to the Division II national championship their numbers won't match up to seasons past. Make that the past three seasons combined.
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Improving Eagles ready for conference play

With a pair of close wins pushing its record to 6-7, the Eastern Washington women's basketball team is ready for its second season. The Eagles begin Big Sky Conference play at home Saturday afternoon against Portland State (6-6).
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Harris energizes Zags with two career highs

Dominique Harris got out of the dog house and put on a show in The Kennel. The sophomore guard from Los Angeles had 13 points and seven rebounds, both career highs, as Gonzaga began defense of its West Coast Conference championship with a 70-60 win over nemesis Santa Clara before 1,153 fans at McCarthey Athletic Center Friday night.
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Deuce wild about Eastern’s Big Sky chances

They call him names, common in the culture of athletics, but Ken "Deuce" Smith smiles. The only senior for the Eastern Washington Eagles relishes his role as a leader on a team that has a host of new faces and starts two freshman, a sophomore and a junior.
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Early struggles don’t mean much in March

Basketball success is measured in March, when league tournaments determine postseason participation for most teams. They understand that at Gonzaga and Idaho, where the women's basketball teams have lost in the championship games of their league tournaments the past two seasons, leaving them short of their goals.
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Eagles hold off Vandals

Things haven't been going well for the Eastern Washington women's basketball team and coach Wendy Schuller was worried how the Eagles would react when that changed. She found out Friday night when the Eagles snapped a four-game losing streak with a 65-63 win over the University of Idaho at Reese Court in Cheney.
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Stuckey, Eastern master Mustangs

What happens when Rodney Stuckey gets this point guard thing down pat? The Eastern Washington University freshman, who wasn't a point guard in his previous life, had a near-perfect game as the Eagles pulled away from Cal Poly 76-62 in non-conference play before 1,102 fans at Reese Court Friday night.
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Leader of the pack

Shopping for undergarments for football coaches whose luggage was lost on a road trip isn't part of the equipment manager's job description. But delivering the new duds in Victoria's Secret bags is pure Ginny Knox.
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Cougars take a winning attitude into Pac-10

Not a lot is going Washington State's way, but the Cougars are still going well. Despite just three home games and two major injuries, the Cougs are 6-2, matching the win total from each of the last two years.
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Montana ends Gonzaga’s 14-game home win streak

Eleven games into the season, Gonzaga women's basketball coach Kelly Graves is no closer to finding an answer to what ails the Bulldogs than he was heading into the season. "We don't have playmakers," Graves said. "When things struggle we don't have anybody that can get a shot for you. Everything we get we have to manufacture."
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Magnificent Meyer

In a vote as close as so many of the games in which he played, Eastern Washington University quarterback Erik Meyer won the Walter Payton Award on Thursday. Meyer edged New Hampshire sophomore quarterback Ricky Santos by five points in the closest race in the 19 years of the award that recognizes the top offensive player in I-AA football.
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Meyer lands on AP I-AA first team

Eastern Washington University quarterback Erik Meyer added another jewel to his crown on Wednesday – with the biggest one yet to be determined. Meyer was named to The Associated Press first-team I-AA All-America team, the second such accolade for the record-breaking Eagle.
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Three Eagles I-AA first-team All-Americans

As a reflection of their high-powered passing attack, three Eastern Washington offensive players received All-America honors. The E2 Passing Attack of senior quarterback Erik Meyer and senior wide receiver Eric Kimble, plus sophomore lineman Matt Alfred, were voted to The Sports Network I-AA first-team offense in football.
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Vandals take the long road to find opponents

The Idaho Vandals are off to a 3-5 start, which isn't too bad considering just two games have been at home. There was a string of 16 days starting with a Thanksgiving tournament at New Mexico when the Vandals spent four nights in Moscow.
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Buechner places second

Sandpoint cowboy Rowdy Buechner picked up another big check and Ryan Gray of Cheney stayed safe in the bareback riding battle as the National Finals Rodeo reached the midpoint Tuesday night at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Buechner was second in the fifth go-round of bareback, scoring 86 on R.D. Mercer to pick up $12,367.79. Defending world champion Kelly Timberman had an 88 1/2 on River Boat Annie to win the go-round and $15,649.04.
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Eagles lose mealticket, but cupboard not bare

An era has ended for the Eastern Washington football team, but head coach Paul Wulff expects the winning to continue. Even without the prolific E2 Passing Attack of Erik Meyer to Eric Kimble that hooked up for 201 completions for 3,169 yards and 35 touchdowns the last three seasons, Wulff believes the pieces are in place for the Eagles to keep their string of seven straight winning seasons going.
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Eagles clamp down on high-scoring Matadors

Cal State Northridge arrived in Cheney with a 4-1 record and the credentials to back it up. The Matadors, averaging 87.6 points a game with wins over Southern Cal and Tulsa, were coming off a 117-55 layup-drill drilling of NAIA Hope International and had a sharp-shooter in Mike Efevberha averaging 26 points a game.
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Faurholt, Mitchell power UI past Zags

It's all about roles – knowing them, understanding them and executing them. The Idaho Vandals seem to have that figured out as they pulled away for a 69-62 win over Gonzaga in a non-conference women's basketball game at Cowan Spectrum in the Kibbie Dome at Moscow, Idaho, on Wednesday night.
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Buechner, Gray cram for Finals

Ryan Gray has tried not to think about the National Finals Rodeo. Thinking about it has been about all Rowdy Buechner could do.
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Copenhaver pulled big strings

Back in the day, when Deb Copenhaver was putting the Inland Northwest on the rodeo map like Ryan Gray and Rowdy Buechner are now, there was no day like there is now. As the young bareback riders head off for the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas to compete for a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association championship, they might want to swing by Creston, Wash., and thank the 80-year-old Copenhaver.