EAGLE FOOTBALL Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 Contact: Dave Cook (509-359-6334, 280-2502 cell, [email protected]) Internet: HTTP://WWW.GOEAGS.COM or HTTP://WWW.EWU.EDU Twitter: @ewuathletics, #GoEags, #BigSkyFB, @CoachBBaldwin Facebook: EWU Football, EWU Athletics • Instagram: ewuathletics #3 Eastern Goes for 500th Win in Showdown With #4 MSU 2013 Eagle Football First place in the Big Sky Conference and the inside #3 Eastern Washington track to the league title will go to the winner of University “Eagles” Saturday’s game at sold-out Roos Field versus Roos Field has yet another date with destiny this week. #4 Montana State The Eastern Washington University football team will try to University “Bobcats’ secure the 500th win in school history when fourth-ranked Mon- Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 • 12:10 p.m. Pacific tana State visits the third-ranked Eagles in an epic showdown in Roos Field (8,600) • Cheney, Wash. the Big Sky Conference. Kickoff Saturday (Nov. 9) at Roos Field Gameday Central: www.goeags.com/gamedaycentral in 12:10 p.m. Pacific time in a battle between a pair of 5-0 league EWU Coach: Beau Baldwin (Central Washington ‘96) School Record: 51-21/35-10 Big Sky Conference (6th Season) teams. Career Record: 61-24 (7th Season -- was 10-3 at CWU in 2007, 6-5 at EWU in 2008, 8-4 in 2009, 13-2 in 2010, 6-5 in 2011, 11-3 in 2012) The sold-out game will be televised live on ROOT Sports, as 2013: 7-2/5-0 Big Sky the Eagles will end the regular season with three-straight games 2012: 11-3/7-1 Big Sky Conference (co-champ; FCS Playoffs semifinals) Last Game: #3 EWU 55, Idaho State 34 (Nov. 2 in Pocatello, Idaho) on the regional network. The Eagles and Bobcats are each 7-2 on TV: Televised live regionally by ROOT Sports & DirectTV Audience Network 101. Talent: Tom Glasgow (play by play), Jason Stiles (analyst), Brad Adam (sideline) the season, and this is the first matchup between Big Sky teams Webcast: None. Radio: 700-AM ESPN in Spokane. Larry Weir returns for his 23rd season calling the ranked in the top five in the NCAA Football Championship Sub- play-by-play, with analysis handled by Paul Sorensen and sideline commentary division since 1994 when No. 1 Montana hosted No. 3 Idaho and by Keith Osso. Osso will also serve as host of the Washington Trust Bank Tailgate Show, starting 1 1/2 hours prior to kickoff. won 45-21. Internet Radio: www.700espn.com or www.tunein.com. Radio iPhone App: Search for “700 ESPN” and download app. An app is also avail- “It’s definitely a huge game,” said Eastern head coach Beau able for tunein radio. Baldwin. “It doesn’t matter who it is, it would be a huge game. Live Stats: ewulive.statb.us (web) or ewustats.com (mobile phones) Weekly Coaches Show: Mondays 6 p.m. at “Epic” at Northern Quest Resort & We’re both undefeated coming into it so it makes it that much Casino (formerly the “Q”) . 700-AM ESPN, www.700espn.com & via iphone app. (search for “Spokane Radio” and download app). bigger.” Watch Parties: Consult EWU social media outlets for details the Friday before games. Those who may carry EWU games include “Epic” at Northern Quest Both teams are on a roll, with EWU entering with a five-game Casino and Resort in Airway Heights, the Swinging Doors in North Spokane and winning streak after last week’s 55-34 victory over Idaho State. at Eagles Pub in Cheney. The Bobcats, meanwhile, knocked off Northern Colorado 35-28 2013 SCHEDULE and has also won five-in-a-row. In fact, the last losses for both schools came more than a month ago at the hands of Southland Date Opponent Time A 31 at Oregon State^ W, 49-46 Conference schools – EWU 49-34 at Sam Houston State on Sept. S 7 Western Oregon~ W, 43-14 28 and MSU seven days earlier by a 52-38 score to Stephen F. S 14 at Toledo L, 21-33 S 28 at Sam Houston State@ L, 34-49 Austin. Eastern’s other loss was 33-21 to NCAA Football Champi- O 5 Weber State*%~ W, 41-19 onship Subdivision foe Toledo, and MSU’s other loss was 31-30 at O 12 at North Dakota*~ W, 35-14 O 19 Southern Utah*#~ W, 34-10 SMU, another FBS foe. O 26 at Montana*$ W, 42-37 Thus far in the Big Sky Conference games, MSU has out- N 2 at Idaho State* W, 55-34 N 9 Montana State*$ 12:10 p.m. scored opponents 202-88, or an average score of 40-17. Eastern N 16 at Cal Poly*$ 12:40 p.m. has defeated its five BSC foes by a 207-114 margin – a 41-22 N 23 Portland State*$& 2:45 p.m. N 30 FCS Playoffs Begin average score. All Times Pacific and are subject to change.*Big Sky Conference Game. #Homecom- “Once you get down to a game on that particular day, it’s its ing. %Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame Day. &Military Appreciation Day. $Televised region- own game,” Baldwin said. “No matter what happened in the weeks ally on Root Sports. ^Televised on Pac-12 Networks. @Televised on Comcast SportsNet Northwest. ~Televised regionally by SWX digital 6.2 in Spokane/Cheney/Sandpoint/ prior to it, it can go a lot of different directions just on a few plays Lewiston, 23.3 in Yakima and 25.3 in the Tri-Cities; also via Comcast 306 (Spokane); Davis Cable 514/81.2/12 (Cheney); Time Warner 306 (Coeur d’Alene & Pullman/Mos- early.” cow); Charter 287 (Tri-Cities/Yakima), Cable One 466 (Lewiston) and Northland Cable In last year’s meeting, the Eagles scored only one offensive 115 (Moses Lake & Sandpoint). touchdown and kicked two field goals in a 27-24 victory over the EWU Football - Page 2 second-ranked Bobcats. Eastern, ranked sixth at the time, scored on a blocked punt by Dylan Zylstra that was recovered for a touchdown by Evan Day, and MONTANA then Jordan Tonani returned an interception 21 yards for a touchdown to rally STATE EWU from a 17-13 deficit entering the fourth quarter. “BOBCATS” Tonani, who is redshirting this season after surgery to both hips, was just the first of a recent epidemic of injuries at safety. Most recently, free safety Tevin McDonald was lost with a broken fibula, leaving a converted cornerback (Miles Weatheroy) and a walk-on redshirt freshman (Zach Bruce) to take over those positions. “We have to keep getting the next player up and ready to go,” said Baldwin. Rob Ash RB Cody Kirk “We are definitely in a spot right now where we will be playing some young Coach: Rob Ash (Cornell, Iowa, College ‘69) players and some guys might be moving position-wise. But that’s football. Cer- School/Career Record: 57-24 (7th Season)/ 233-123-5 (34th Season) tain years you have certain positions that get hit a lot harder by injuries. Other 2012: 11-2/7-1 Big Sky (T-1st) SID: Bill Lamberty (406.994.5133/ players have to step up and find a way. We’ll be fine.” [email protected]) Following this week’s game, Eastern closes the regular season with a road Website: www.msubobcats.com game at Cal Poly on Nov. 16 and Senior Day at Roos Field versus Portland 2013 Schedule (7-2 overall, 5-0 Big Sky) Aug. 29 Monmouth W, 42-24 State on Nov. 23. Sept. 7 @ SMU L, 30-31 Sept. 14 Colorado Mesa W, 26-0 Sept. 21 @ Stephen F. Austin L, 38-52 Sept. 28 @ North Dakota W, 63-20 Official Social Media Sites Oct. 5 Northern Arizona W, 36-7 Twitter: @ewuathletics, @CoachBBaldwin, #GoEags Oct. 19 @ Weber State W, 34-16 Facebook: EWU Football, EWU Athletics Oct. 26 UC Davis W, 34-17 Instagram: ewuathletics Nov. 2 @ Northern Colorado W, 35-28 Nov. 9 @ Eastern Washington Nov. 16 Southern Utah Nov. 23 Montana PDF Link to Fact Book The complete version of the 2013 EWU football fact book may be found at: Series History - Eastern 26, Montana St. 10 http://goeags.com/trads/ewas-factbooks.html 1948 W 13-6 A 1949 W 29-6 H 1950 W 20-6 N More Eagle Football Links and Headlines 1951 W 19-13 H Gameday Central - http://goeags.com/gamedaycentral 1952 L 6-16 A EWU Football Web Page - http://goeags.com/sports/m-footbl/index 1982 L 20-24 A EWU Football News & Notes - http://www.goeags.com/sports/m-footbl/2013-14/news 1983 W 22-17 A 1984 W 21-16 A Link to Football Ticket & RV Parking Information: http://www.goeags.com/tickets 1985 W 28-23 A Big Sky Conference Football - http://www.bigskyconf.com/index.aspx?tab=football&path=football 1986 W 27-14 S Spokane Spokesman-Review EWU Football Page - http://www.spokesman.com/eagles 1987 W 32-30 A 700 ESPN – http://700espn.com 1988 L 13-35 S The Sports Network (FCS Football) - http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot 1989 L 3-28 A 2/indexpic.htm 1990 L 25-28 (2ot) H NCAA FCS Football - http://www.ncaafootball.com/DivisionIFCS.aspx 1991 W 22-21 A 1992 W 23-17 H NCAA Statistics (2013) - http://stats.ncaa.org/rankings?sport_code=MFB&division=12 1993 W 16-7 A NCAA Statistics (2012) - http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/mainpage.jsp?year=2012 1994 W 34-31 (3ot) H College Sporting News - http://www.collegesportingnews.com 1995 W 28-10 A College Sports Journal - http://www.college-sports-journal.com 1996 W 35-14 H College Football Performance Awards – http://www.collegefootballperformance.com 1997 L 7-17 A College Sports Madness - http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/fcs-football 1998 W 31-24 H 1999 W 45-23 A 2000 W 20-14 A 2001 L 38-48 S 2002 L 14-25 A Quick Hits 2003 W 34-25 S 2004 W 51-44 (ot) A • No tickets are currently available for Eastern’s game on Nov.