Jim Allen

In a game that was played on both schools’ fields, West Valley defeated East Valley 30-13 in Great Northern League action Friday night.

Eastern faces a unique challenge this week against Cal Poly

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The Eagles face Cal Poly in a key Big Sky Conference game Saturday at Roos Field

By Eastern Washington coach Jim Hayford’s reckoning, the pieces are in place for another big year at Reese Court. Now he needs to put them together. Judging by the Big Sky Conference men’s basketball preseason poll, most experts expect that to happen.

The numbers are nice, Eastern Washington football coach Beau Baldwin admits. His offense is putting up some ridiculous stats – again. The Eagles rank third in the nation in total offense, averaging 590 yards per game.

The Central Valley girls soccer team played an unfamiliar role Wednesday night: underdog. The two-time defending State 4A champs were coming off a four-goal loss and trailed Mead by two goals, but staged a remarkable second-half comeback on the way to a dramatic 3-2 shootout win at CVHS Stadium.

The numbers are nice, Eastern Washington football coach Beau Baldwin admits. The numbers are dizzying, but Baldwin is a coach with his feet planted in the reality of winning games.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Eastern Washington’s young defense didn’t exactly come of age Saturday night, but there was a discernible growth spurt. Indeed, defense made the difference in the second half of the Eagles’ 28-20 Big Sky Conference win over Sacramento State, a game that was threatening to get out of hand early in the second half.

Eastern has done this before: bear down in the third quarter to beat a Big Sky opponent

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Big Sky Conference football race will be a grind, Eastern coach Beau Baldwin predicted last week, a few days before his Eagles were almost ground up by Sacramento State. Instead, the Eagles recovered to beat the Hornets 28-20 on Saturday night by making the same plays that earned them the last three conference titles: the big plays, the game-changers that have separated the Eagles from the pack for all of those years.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Look out Jerry Rice. With two more touchdown catches Saturday night, Eastern wide receiver Cooper Kupp ranks sixth in FCS with 47 in his career.

Tonight in Sacramento, the Eagles begin defense of their Big Sky Conference title.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – As they stretched on the turf at Hornet Stadium on Friday afternoon, the Eastern Washington players felt the heat. It was 96 degrees in the shade but decidedly warmer on the turf where Saturday night against Sacramento State the Eagles will open defense of the Big Sky Conference title they won last year, the year before and the year before that.

With the nonconference portion of the season behind them, the Eastern Washington football players focus on their annual goal: winning the Big Sky Conference