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Pundits pick Eagles as top FCS team

Eastern Washington is No.1 … in the magazine aisle at your local supermarket. That will have to do for now – the college football season is 11 weeks away – but the Eagles are a unanimous top pick in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, according to three national publications.

Backpacker graduates with flying bear bag

This is the last in a series of four stories from a fledging backpacker’s perspective as he learns what it takes to be a mountaineer. I hope backpacking class isn’t graded on a curve, because I flunked the first test.
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Snohomish edges Ferris in boys soccer title match

PUYALLUP, Wash. – Connor Ourada didn’t want it to end. Even as the Snohomish players raised the State 4A soccer championship trophy, the Ferris midfielder stopped at the edge of the field, sat down and soaked it all in: an 18-3 record, one of the most successful seasons in school history and a near-miss run at the state title.
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Ferris reaches State 4A soccer title game

PUYALLUP, Wash. – As halftimes go, this one was pretty special for the Ferris boys soccer team. Down a goal to the top-ranked team in the state, the Saxons did more than regroup Friday night: they reinvented themselves – on defense, set pieces and everywhere in between – to defeat Skyview 3-2 and earn a spot in the State 4A title game.
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EWU honors outgoing president Arévalo

Rooting for the underdog comes a little easier at Eastern Washington University, especially when your leader is one. On Wednesday night at Showalter Hall, the athletic department held its sixth annual EeeWoos event, honoring student-athletes for their deeds on and off the field. For one night at least, there were no minor sports; nominees and winners from volleyball, women’s basketball and track and field drew the biggest cheers.
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Ferris takes shot at State 4A boys soccer crown

There’s a lot to like about this year’s Ferris boys soccer team – besides the fact that the Saxons are two wins from a state title. “They have a lot of heart, and as far as technical ability, they’re among the best we’ve had,” said coach Robin Crain, who figures to see both qualities tested in Friday night’s State 4A semifinal game in Puyallup against top-ranked Skyview of Vancouver.
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Ferris takes on Camas in quarters

Revenge can be a motivator, no matter how misplaced. A year ago, the Ferris boys soccer team was ousted from the State 4A playoffs after a 3-1 quarterfinal loss at Union of Vancouver.
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Cheney reloaded after winning soccer title

As the thrill of last year’s state title gave way to the hard work of a new season, Cheney boys soccer coach Mark Kiver wasn’t worried. “I just try to put the players in the right spots,” Kiver said. “I don’t have to tell them.”
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Ferris powers to State 4A boys soccer quarterfinals

The Ferris boys soccer team took care of business, all right. That took about 15 minutes – all the time the Saxons needed to score three goals on the way to a 6-0 win Wednesday night over visiting Cascade (Everett) in a first-round State 4A match.
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Soccer: Young Bears lose in State shootout

They weren’t meant to get this far, a soccer team so young they might as well be called the Central Valley Cubs. But there they were Tuesday night, with just three seniors in the lineup, dominating their first-round 4A state playoff game against Curtis of Tacoma: 11 shots on goal compared to three for the visitors, and a game contested mostly on the visitors’ end of the field.
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CV, Ferris open at home

Central Valley boys soccer coach Andres Monrroy admits to a lack of knowledge about the Curtis Vikings, but that can be blissful. “As a coach, I don’t worry that much about the other team, mostly my own team,” said Monrroy, whose Bears play the Tacoma school in a first-round 4A state playoff game today at 6 p.m. at Central Valley.
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Blackhawks survive Greyhounds, claim District 7 2A soccer title

The goals came a little harder, but that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm after Cheney earned another district soccer title Thursday afternoon. Actually, Blackhawks coach Mark Kiver was plenty damp from an ice-water bath that punctuated the Blackhawks’ gritty 2-0 win over Pullman for the District 7 2A title – familiar territory for the defending state champions.
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Eastern, Jim Hayford agree on new contract

Eastern Washington is in “agreement mode” on a new five-year contract for basketball coach Jim Hayford, athletic director Bill Chaves said Tuesday afternoon. “It’s not finalized, but it’s going through the process,” confirmed Chaves, who said that the deal is both a reward and a key piece in building stability in a program that has known little since the Eagles’ move to Division I in 1983.
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Technique keeps EWU’s Jordan Arakawa in the game

Eastern Washington hammer thrower Jordan Arakawa looks nothing like Thor, but he probably has better technique. “They say it takes 10,000 throws to master the event,” said Arakawa, a junior from Olympia whose methodical approach has landed him among the nation’s elite throwers. As the Eagles fly to Flagstaff, Arizona, for this week’s Big Sky Championships meet, Arakawa ranks 13th in the NCAAs and seventh in the Western Region with a best of 219 feet, 8 inches.
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6 GSL schools have regional assignments

When it comes to the regional soccer playoffs, there’s no room for overconfidence. For the Mt. Spokane boys, there’s no margin for error in today’s 3A loser-out game against a Kamiakin team that’s only 5-12 and hitting the road to face Ryan Campanells’s Greater Spokane League champions.
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Spokane Wolfpack play football for love of game

The Spokane Wolfpack players arrive at practice with a spring in their step. Even after a full day of work, they drive to a remote high school field in Colbert for two hours of practice. With the pads and helmets they bought themselves.
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Mt. Spokane claims District 8 3A boys soccer crown

Even when the goals were hard to come by, Mt. Spokane made it look easy Wednesday night. Facing a packed-in Shadle Park defense, the Wildcats finally broke through late in the first half on the way to a 3-0 win in the District 8 3A title game at Albi Stadium.
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CV tops Ferris in boys soccer to claim District 4A title

Central Valley’s young soccer team came of age Tuesday night. The season-long growing pains were forgotten after a 1-0 district title win over Ferris that earned the Bears, who only have two seniors on the team, some redemption along with a District 4A title.