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  • Chism among East-West Shrine prospects

    Paul Delaney, Franklin Connection|Updated Aug 6, 2024

    TAMPA, Fla. - Going into his final season at Eastern Washington, Efton Chism III is getting used to the national attention. Chism was included in the East-West Shrine Bowl's top 1,000 NFL prospects in the lead up to the 2024 college football season. The list intends to highlight the best players who are both eligible for the annual all-star game and ready for the NFL. The East-West Shrine Bowl is scheduled for January 30, 2025 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with 130...

  • Eastern volleyball schedule set

    Paul Delaney, Franklin Connection|Updated Jun 11, 2024

    CHENEY — Eastern Washington University volleyball is back at Reese Court this fall as the team released its schedule. Head Coach Jon Haruguchi announced the 2024 slate, with the regular season starting on Aug. 30 on the road. Eastern has nine home matches for the upcoming season, with seven against Big Sky opponents. The Eagles will play an exhibition game on Aug. 24 at Central Washington. Eastern’s first regular season matches are in Orem, Utah in a two-day tournament hosted by Utah Valley on Aug. 30-31 and also inc...

  • Eastern soccer season scheduled

    Paul Delaney, Franklin Connection|Updated Jun 11, 2024

    CHENEY — Eastern Washington women’s soccer announced its full 2024 schedule as head coach Missy Strasburg begins her fourth year leading the Eagles. In preseason, Eastern hosts Washington (Aug. 5) and Thompson Rivers (Aug. 8) for a pair of exhibition matches at EWU Soccer Field. Eastern Washington University has an extended road trip to begin the fall schedule, with the first official game at Troy on Aug. 15. The team next travels for games at Kennesaw St. (Aug. 18), South Dakota (Aug. 25) and Southern Utah (Aug. 29). Eas...

  • One and done - again - for Eastern Washington University men

    Paul Delaney, Franklin Connection|Updated Mar 13, 2024

    BOISE, Idaho — The Eastern Washington men's basketball team was upended in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament for the second-straight season on Sunday in Boise, losing to the No. 10 seed Sacramento State Hornets, 74-69. The Eagles entered the tournament as the regular season champions and top seed, just as they did last year, and finished with a 21-11 overall record. Eastern fell in similar fashion last season, losing their first game to No. 8 Northern Arizona. Sacramento State led wire-to-wire in the first half, p...

  • Eastern women reach BSC title game

    Paul Delaney, Franklin Connection|Updated Mar 13, 2024

    BOISE — The Eastern Washington women used two deciding quarters, were led by three players in double figures and topped Montana State 56-39, March 12, to advance to the Big Sky Conference women's championship game March 13. Eastern was set to play the winner of the Northern Arizona vs. Montana game, which followed their contest with a berth in the NCAA Tournament at stake. With Jacinta Buckley scoring 16, Jamie Loera 12 and Aaliyah Alexander 10, the top-seeded Eagles pulled away from the Bobcats on the strength of an 18-6 e...

  • Eagles' Clements earns All-America status

    Paul Delaney, Sports correspondent|Updated Aug 12, 2022

    CHENEY — Long snapper Cody Clements represents Eastern Washington University on the FCS Preseason All-American football team, earning third team honors at his position. He was also selected to the second team on the preseason All-Big Sky special teams list. On the preseason All-Big Sky team, wide receiver Freddie Roberson was Eastern’s lone representative on the first team for offense. Joining him on offense were second team selections Efton Chism III at wide receiver and Wyatt Musser on the offensive line. Fellow off...

  • Spokane County Raceway operator steps aside

    PAUL DELANEY, Contributor|Updated Aug 17, 2021

    AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Citing the inability to come to an agreement to negotiate a different lease term, Spokane County Raceway operator Craig Smith will step away from the facility leaving both the 2021 season, and the track’s future up in the air. Neither Spokane County Commissioners, nor officials with Spokane County Parks who oversee the facility returned requests for comments by deadline time Tuesday evening, Feb. 23. They were asked on Monday to address the rampant social media chatter that the track would close — or if it...

  • Eastern restocks basketball roster

    PAUL DELANEY, Contributor|Updated May 11, 2021

    CHENEY — With their ranks decimated by the “out” door of the NCAA Transfer Portal, new Eastern Washington University men’s basketball coach David Riley welcomes a handful of transfers back to the team. Rylan Bergersen comes to Eastern from Central Arkansas where he played 54 games and was twice honored as a third team All-Southland Conference selection. The six-foot-six-inch guard also played 50 games at BYU and is a former high school teammate of current Eastern point guard Ellis Magnuson at Borah High School in Boise....

  • Eastern, Idaho battle in regular season finale

    Paul Delaney, Cheney Free Press|Updated Apr 8, 2021

    CHENEY - There's plenty different now than when Eastern Washington and Idaho met to kickoff the winter/spring Big Sky Conference football season seven weeks ago. This time around, it might be the wind – not a piece of scoreboard that affects field goals – when Eastern and Idaho meet in the Big Sky season finale. And, in this second-go with the Vandals coming to Roos Field on Saturday, April 10, Eastern Coach Aaron Best will be live on the sidelines, not tucked away due to COVI...

  • Kansas' second-half rally dispatches Eastern Washington

    PAUL DELANEY, Contributor|Updated Apr 1, 2021

    INDIANAPOLIS — The ebb and flow, floods and drought found in the game of basketball are arguably unique in the sports world. And it was one of those things — a 25-7 stretch of the second half by the Kansas Jayhawks — that drown out Eastern Washington’s chances in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in Indianapolis, Ind., March 20 at Indiana Farmers Coliseum. The No. 13 seeded Eagles, who led right from the tip 9-0 and then as late as by 10 points — 52-42 on a Tanner Groves bucket with 17 minutes, 58 second...

  • Shantay Legans departs EWU for University of Portland

    Paul Delaney, Special to the Franklin Connection|Updated Apr 1, 2021

    CHENEY — Eastern Washington's ever-improving basketball program has launched another coach out of Cheney. Fresh from guiding his team to only the program's third berth in the NCAA Tournament, losing 93-84 to one of the legends in the sport, Kansas, Shantay Legans will next take over the University of Portland Pilots of the West Coast Conference. At Eastern, Legans was a very impressive 75-49 (.605) overall and 53-20 in the Big Sky Conference (.726). Legans' .726 conference win...

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