Gone, but not Forgotten

Success is no guarantee of survival. The Inland Northwest’s collegiate athletic honor roll includes teams that achieved undefeated seasons, Top 25 rankings and even national championships in sports that eventually fell by the wayside – victims of budget constraints, flagging regional interest or a culture change.

Today, in our third installment of a weekly summer series that spotlights some of those teams and their finest seasons, we look back at the 1988 Eastern Washington baseball team’s late-season surge that threw a scare into the Pac-10 North Division.