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Tuesday, September 7, 2021
East Oregonian
Cougars:
Eggers records career-best
performance in season opener
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They are willing to try
something new, and you can
teach them the right way.”
That includes the rules of
the game.
“The hardest part at fi rst
was trying to teach the girls
who had never played before
all the rules,” Sandoval said.
“They learned really quickly
and they played great in their
fi rst game.”
T he Couga r s were
0-5-2 last year, and Sando-
val is encouraged with the
improvement her team has
shown since spring.
“Last year to this year,
I have seen tremendous
growth in the girls,” she said.
T he Couga r s, who
play in the Blue Mountain
Conference with Riverside,
Umatilla, Four Rivers, Irri-
gon and Nyssa, are off to an
0-2 start to the season. They
host McLoughlin at 4 p.m. on
Thursday, Sept. 9, in Echo.
The Observer
Kathy Aney/East Oregonian
Echo’s Mayela De La Fuente works the ball upfi eld during a home game Fri-
day, Sept. 3, 2021, with Trout Lake.
LA GRANDE — The Eastern
Oregon University Mountaineers
may have found their new work-
horse running back.
Redshirt-sophomore Jordan
Eggers burst onto the scene in
Week 1, tallying 148 net rushing
yards and two rushing touchdowns
in Eastern Oregon University’s
26-24 victory over Montana Tech
in the season opener on Aug. 28.
The Mountaineers relied heavily
on the run, totaling more than 250
rushing yards as a team.
“Our emphasis from the start
of the game was to control the run
game,” Eggers said.
The Mountaineers did just
that, compiling 266 yards on the
ground in comparison to 134 for
the Orediggers.
Eggers scored the team’s fi rst
touchdown of the season on a
37-yard rush midway through the
first quarter. The back went on
to carry the ball 21 times in the
victory, adding another touchdown
on a six-yard run in the second
quarter. Prior to this season, Eggers
carried the ball only 27 times for
82 total yards and one touchdown
across the 2019 and shortened 2020
seasons. Eggers in his fi rst career
start had a career-best performance.
“I just got into a good rhythm
and it led to a heavier workload,”
Eggers said. “Our off ensive line
played great.”
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An athlete
for all seasons
Pasena-Littlesky has
been playing soccer since
she was in the fi rst grade.
She also plays basketball
and was one of the Bucks’
top golfers.
At nearly 5-foot-10, she
will be an asset to the girls
basketball program, and her
reach makes her an asset in
goal.
“Caitlin Anderholm was
our goalie last year, but she
wanted to play defense,”
Guizar said. “She is a natu-
ral defender. When we lost
Lanie Gomez, Caitlin ended
up our goalie her junior
year, but her passion was to
play defense. We lost three
defenders from last year. To
be able to rotate my defense
and not worry about who
is in goal is nice. It was a
win-win for us.”
Pasena-Littlesky was a
defender until her freshman
year in high school.
“One of the JV goalies
got hurt and I played to fi ll
the position,” she said. “I
just stayed there.”
Guizar got a good look
at Pasena-Littlesky last
year when the Bulldogs
played the Bucks in a pair of
nonleague matches. Herm-
iston won 7-0 and 2-0.
“When we beat them
2-0, she stopped almost
everything we sent her
way,” Guizar said. “I was
impressed.”
Over the summer, Pase-
na-Littlesky played on
the Hermiston club team.
Guizar was able to watch
her play, but he had to
wait for her transfer to be
approved before he could
talk to her.
Then came the discus-
sion about IMC soccer
versus the Mid-Columbia
Conference.
“It was a wakeup call,”
Guizar said. “We told her
it was the hardest thing
she was going to face.
She looked at us and said
we were really good. She
didn’t get how serious we
really were. We are play-
ing the toughest teams you
will face. You have to give
everything every game.”
She got her fi rst dose of
the MCC on Saturday, Sept.
4, in a 1-0 loss to Hanford.
“In the fi rst half it was
0-0,” Guizar said. “She
said it was harder than she
thought. I messaged her
after the game. She felt she
let us down. I let her know
she didn’t.”
Pasena-Littlesky also has
found her way into Emilee
Strot’s girls weightlifting
class at school.
“I’ve never done weights
before,” she said. “I like it. I
like the environment. You
have to push yourself.”
It’s all part of the Herm-
iston experience.
“In every Hermiston
program, we aren’t just here
to build a good team, but we
are building a culture and a
family,” Guizar said.
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