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Tough to fence in

For much of last season, the Mead girls soccer team was a work in progress. A new coach, new system, new players – and a lopsided loss to rival Mt. Spokane. “It was matter of transition, of trying to get my philosophy, to see how they played,” said Kevin Houston, the Panthers’ longtime boys’ coach who took over the girls’ program last year from Steve Snyder.
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Bears bear down

Back on their heels Friday night, the Central Valley Bears had no choice but to dig them in. Coming off an opening loss to Ferris and reeling on their first defensive series against Rogers, the Bears got the ball back and took over from there in a 49-7 Greater Spokane League football win Friday night at Albi Stadium.
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Eagles travel to Toledo

EWU at Toledo Kickoff: 4 p.m. at the Glass Bowl, Toledo, Ohio Records: EWU 2-0, Toledo 0-2 Web/Radio: ESPN3/700-AM Overview: Toledo is unranked, but may offer a stiffer challenge than Oregon State partly because the Rockets know what’s coming.
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Vandals play Northern Illinois in home opener

NIU at Idaho Kickoff: 2 p.m. at Kibbie Dome Records: NIU 1-0; UI 0-2 Radio: 1080-AM Overview: The Vandals open their home schedule with the best nonconference team to come to the Kibbie Dome in years. Northern Illinois has received votes in both major polls following a win at Iowa to start the season and reaching a BCS bowl last year.
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Eagles face challenge against 0-2 Rockets

When Eastern Washington lines up against Toledo on Saturday, the Eagles may see a team and a program much like their own: Overachieving, yet flying under the radar at the same time. And all the while playing with a chip on its shoulder.
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Eagles face challenge against 0-2 Rockets

When Eastern Washington lines up against Toledo on Saturday, the Eagles may see a team and a program much like their own: Overachieving, yet flying under the radar at the same time.
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Eagles stay on even keel despite flux of schedule

Expectations – high, low and in between – attracted comments from several Eastern Washington players and coaches prior to Tuesday’s practice at Roos Field. Three weeks into the schedule, the Eagles have yet to prepare for a team from their own level, the Football Championship Subdivision. First it was Oregon State of the Pac-12, then Division II Western Oregon. Now it’s back up the elevator to Toledo, another Football Bowl Subdivision team that figures to be favored even against a surprising Eastern team.
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Eagles soar past Western Oregon

Good defense was its own reward Saturday afternoon at Roos Field. Eastern Washington cruised to a 43-14 non-conference win over Western Oregon thanks partly to a big first quarter by the offense, but mostly by a defense that felt it had plenty to prove even after one of the biggest wins in school history.
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Adams tosses 5 TD passes in EWU win

Good defense was its own reward Saturday afternoon at Roos Field. Eastern Washington cruised to a 43-14 non-conference win over Western Oregon thanks partly to a big first quarter by the offense, but mostly by a defense that felt it had plenty to prove even after one of the biggest wins in school history.
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Shadle Park tops Rogers

The Shadle Park Highlanders made short work of Rogers on Friday night. The postgame celebration was even shorter following an easy 62-14 win in the opening game of the season at Albi Stadium. With a game against Ferris looming on Thursday, head coach Alan Stanfield told his players that the work begins today with team meetings.
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Just Forgette about it

Football games are won on the practice field, the weight room and the film room. And sometimes they’re won on the couch. That’s where Steven Forgette spent much of Eastern Washington’s 2011 season, nursing a broken fibula. “We spent a lot of time together, just sitting around and talking,” recalled center Ashton Miller, out that same year with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
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Western Oregon Wolves are hungry for Eagles

The cleat is firmly on the other foot for Eastern Washington’s home opener on Saturday. Last week, it was the Eagles’ measuring themselves against a Pac-12 team in their opening game at Oregon State. This week, it’s Division II Western Oregon opening the season with a chance to make a statement. So how hungry are the Wolves?
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Western Ore. Wolves hungry for shot at Eagles

The cleat is firmly on the other foot for Eastern Washington’s home opener on Saturday. Last week, it was the Eagles’ measuring themselves against a Pac-12 team in their opening game at Oregon State. This week, it’s Division II Western Oregon opening the season with a chance to make a statement. So how hungry are the Wolves?
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Eastern won’t be the underdog this time

The cleat is firmly on the other foot for Eastern Washington’s home opener on Saturday. Last week, it was the Eagles’ measuring themselves against a Pac-12 team in their opening game at Oregon State. This week, it’s Division II Western Oregon opening the season with a chance to make a statement.
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Adams, Eagles stay on even keel

Back at Roos Field three days after the biggest win of his football life, Vernon Adams talked about class: Stepping up, stepping down, and having enough class to deal with sudden fame. “I’m handling it OK,” the Eastern Washington quarterback said as he stepped onto the practice field Tuesday afternoon in the wake of the Eagles’ stunning, 49-46 win at Oregon State of the Pac-12.
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Breakthrough

The game of football is slowing down for Vernon Adams. The other stuff? That’s moving at warp speed, much as the Eastern Washington quarterback did in Saturday’s 49-46 win over Oregon State.
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Eagles enriched in couple of ways

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Please, no more body-bag games. They’re just too painful to watch, especially if you also have to pony up $450,000 to have your defense embarrassed by a lower-division team. Body-bag games. That’s what an Oregonian columnist labeled Eastern Washington’s contest last weekend against 25th-ranked Oregon State. As if there weren’t already enough chips on their collective shoulder pads, the Eastern Washington players took exception at having their game likened to the mismatch being played down the road between Nicholls State and third-ranked Oregon.
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Eagles enriched in couple of ways

Please, no more body-bag games. They’re just too painful to watch, especially if you also have to pony up $450,000 to have your defense embarrassed by a lower-division team.