Sports
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Th e Observer
No fans allowed at EOU football games this season
overall in 2019 and 4-6 in
conference play, according
to a press release from
EOU.
The College of Idaho
received 15 points and
picked up three fi rst-place
votes. Coaches selected
the Yotes as the favorite
after winning the regular
Frontier Conference
coaches’ poll picks
Mountaineers to
finish third
The Observer
LA GRANDE — Fans
will not be attending
Eastern Oregon Foot-
ball games in person this
season. The Frontier Con-
ference presidents and ath-
letic directors voted last
week to continue the policy
prohibiting spectators at
games for the remainder of
the 2020-21 season.
“We are very disap-
pointed with not being
able to allow spectators
at our football games but
the Frontier Conference is
committed to providing a
safe environment for stu-
dent-athletes and visiting
programs to compete,”
EOU Director of Athletics
Anji Weissenfl uh said in a
press release.
In accordance to the
policy, which the league
developed in September,
spectators will not be
allowed at any Frontier
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Friday, March 12
• La Grande defeated Baker/
Powder Valley 6-0.
GIRLS SOCCER
Wednesday, March 10
• La Grande defeated Baker/
Powder Valley 9-1.
FOOTBALL
Th ursday, March 11
• Wallowa (home, 1-0)
defeated Enterprise (0-1) 42-0.
• La Grande (away, 1-0)
defeated Nyssa (1-1) 42-8.
Friday, March 12
• Imbler (home, 1-0) defeated
Cove (0-1) 48-20.
• Powder Valley (away, 2-0)
defeated St. Paul (1-1) 44-20.
Th e Powder Valley Badgers
opened the season March 5,
defeating the Crane Mustangs
Conference events —
including football, bas-
ketball, golf, track and
fi eld, cross county and
volleyball.
Eastern Oregon’s two
home football games are
set to take place Saturday,
March 20, against Carroll
College of Montana and
Saturday, April 3, against
the College of Idaho. EOU
will livestream the contests
on the Mountie Sports Net-
work. Fans can catch the
games by going to www.
eousports.com/watch.
Kickoff for each home
game is set for 1 p.m.
Coaches in the confer-
ence picked the College of
Idaho to win 2021 Frontier
Conference football cham-
pionship, with Carroll Col-
(0-2) on the road 18-8.
• Joseph (home, 2-0) defeated
Monument (1-1) 33-13. Th e
Joseph Eagles opened the
season March 5 with a 37-18
win over the Harper Charter
Hornets (0-1).
VOLLEYBALL
Friday, March 12
• Powder Valley (4-0) defeated
St. Paul (3-1) in straight sets:
25-22, 25-21 and 25-11.
• Joseph (2-1) defeated Pine
Eagle (0-4) in straight sets:
25-8, 25-2 and 25-8.
• Enterprise (2-2) defeated
Pine Eagle (0-4) in straight
sets: 25-12, 25-10 and 25-18.
• Union (6-0) defeated Imbler
(1-2) in straight sets: 25-12,
25-18 and 25-22.
• Imbler (2-2) defeated
Cove (1-3) in four sets
(scores not available).
• Elgin (0-1) played Wallowa
(3-1) (outcome not available).
Saturday, March 13
• La Grande (4-2) lost to
Crook County (4-1) in a non-
league match in straight sets:
25-20, 25-17 and 25-17.
• La Grande (4-2) lost to
Pendleton in a non-league
match in straight sets: 25-22,
26-24 and 25-18. La Grande’s
next league match is Th ursday
at 6 p.m. at home against Vale.
• Powder Valley (6-0) defeated
Vale (2-4) in straight sets: 25-
18, 25-12 and 25-16.
• Union (7-1) defeated Vale
(2-4) in straight sets: 25-17,
25-17 and 25-22.
• Powder Valley (6-0) defeated
Union (7-1) in three straight
sets aft er losing the fi rst set:
Gonzaga’s bid for perfection
begins with No. 1 overall seed
SPOKANE, Wash. —
Gonzaga’s road to per-
fection will be fi lled with
familiar faces.
The Bulldogs were the
No. 1 overall seed in the
NCAA Tournament bracket
announced Sunday, March
14, as they try to become
the fi rst team in 35 years to
complete a perfect season.
Gonzaga is the top seed
in the West Region for the
all-in-Indiana bracket that
starts this week and the next
three seeds are teams it has
already beaten — all by
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Fans pack the stands at Community Stadium at Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, in this undat-
ed photo. Th e Frontier Conference voted recently to keep the policy in place to prohibit spectators at
football games and other sporting events for the remainder of the 2020-21 season, including at EOU.
lege coming in second and
EOU third in the fi ve-team
pool going into the spring
season.
The conference released
the poll Friday, March
12. Eastern picked up 10
points in the coaches poll
to slide in at No. 3 for the
preseason. The Mountain-
eers enter the spring season
third after fi nishing 4-7
Local high school sports scores
BOYS SOCCER
season crown in 2019. Sec-
ond-place Carroll College
received 13 points and two
fi rst-place votes.
Rocky Mountain Col-
lege, Montana, was
picked with seven points,
while Montana State-
Northern was picked fi fth
with fi ve points.
double digits.
The Zags (26-0) beat No.
2 Kansas 102-90 to open the
season and took down No.
2 seed Iowa 99-88 a month
later. Gonzaga also beat No.
4 seed Virginia 98-75 in late
December.
Gonzaga won every
game this season by double
digits except for one —
when star freshman Jalen
Suggs was injured —
and has a school-record
30-game winning streak
over two seasons.
The Zags are the fi rst
team since Kentucky in
2015 to enter the NCAA
Tournament undefeated and
have their sights set on the
1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers,
the last team to fi nish a per-
fect season.
Gonzaga opens the tour-
nament Saturday against
the First Four winner
between Norfolk State and
Appalachian State. Get
by that and the Zags will
play the winner between
No. 8 Creighton and No. 9
Missouri.
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26-28, 25-15, 25-18 and 25-13.
• Enterprise (2-2) defeated
Adrian (0-5) three sets to one:
25-17, 25-13, 20-13 and 25-20.
• Joseph (2-1) defeated Adrian
(0-5) in straight sets: 25-10,
25-17 and 25-21.
• Wallowa defeated Pine Eagle
in straight sets (scores not
available).
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