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MAKING HIS MARK
ON CAMPUS
Off ensive woes
continue for
Mountaineers
Pendleton’s Brock Mackey
is taking advantage of
opportunities on the fi eld
By DAVIS CARBAUGH
The Observer
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
LA GRANDE — Another low
off ensive output led to the Eastern
Oregon University football team’s
second-straight loss. After a 3-0 start
to the season, the Mountaineers are
now 3-2.
In a 24-3 loss to Southern Oregon
on Saturday, Oct. 2, the Mountain-
eers actually outgained the Raiders in
total yardage. With that being said, the
off ense for Eastern struggled mightily
and failed to fi nd the end zone. The
Mountaineers have now scored just 20
points in their last three games.
Eastern has totaled less than 100
rushing yards in the team’s last four
games, mustering just 54 total yards
in the loss to Southern Oregon.
Running back Jordan Eggers
started the year with a 148-yard
performance against Montana Tech,
scoring twice in a narrow win.
PEN DLETON — Brock
Mackey has worked his way up
the ranks on the Pendleton football
team. This fall, he has spent time
on the scout team, getting time in
the secondary and reps out of the
backfi eld.
The past three weeks, Mackey
has seen a lot of varsity time
against Putnam, Hood River and
The Dalles, and he has made every
yard count.
“I’m really happy for him,”
Pendleton coach Erik Davis said
“He has waited his turn. He has
run scout team and given us good
looks with zero let down.”
Against Putnam, he ran for
30 yards and a touchdown. The
following week against Hood
River, the 5-foot-11, 155-pound
junior chewed up 50 yards and
scored two touchdowns.
On Sept. 30, against The Dalles,
Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian
the Bucks were without tailback Pendleton’s Brock Mackey runs the ball for a touchdown Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, during a 70-6 win over The
Payton Lambert (ankle). Mackey Dalles Riverhawks at the Pendleton Round-Up Grounds.
stepped in and ran for 111 yards
sides of the ball. When you can
With his size, Mackey is not coming out of the backfi eld, but
and scored four touchdowns.
“I have never scored four touch- start both sides, it builds your mowing over defenses, but instead Davis is excited about the possi-
bility of a three-headed monster.
using his speed.
downs in a game before,” Mackey confi dence.”
“There was an issue if he could
Mackey is ready to do whatever
“He is very fast,” Davis said.
said. “That was exciting.”
take
the beating as a varsity tail-
his
team
needs.
“He’s
probably
one
of
the
top
two
It’s all part of being ready when
“I haven’t been in a starting or three fastest kids on our team. back and have ball security,”
an opportunity arises.
“We ask him to do a lot of stuff position since my freshman year They aren’t running anywhere Davis said. “He’s really taken care
for us,” Davis said. “When he got and JV,” Mackey said. “It’s nice to without the off ensive line. They of the football. We are watching a
thrust into a starting spot, he didn’t go out and show people what I can (off ensive linemen) are undersized tremendous growth in front of our
waver. He was ready. We are going do. I’m not very big, but I do have and some are inexperienced, but eyes. He will be a force for us the
next year and a half.”
to need him moving forward. If speed. The line did a good job of we’re still moving the ball.”
Lambert and Kyle Liscom have
Payton needs another week, we fl owing The Dalles off the line and
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know he’s ready. He started both giving us room to run.”
had the lion’s share of the work
Americans open
2021 season with
wins over Portland
and Spokane
Tri-City Herald
KENNEWICK — After
a 2019-20 Western Hockey
League season that got cut
short because of the COVID-
19 pandemic, and a very
shortened spring of 2021
season — also because of
the pandemic — the league
hopes to run a full season for
2021-22.
There will defi nitely be
some changes.
The U.S. Divisions teams
won’t be playing East-
ern Conference squads.
And already the WHL has
tweaked the October portion
of the schedule, in which
Tri-City Herald/Contributed Photo
The Tri-City Americans open their 2021-22 season with a new
coach in Stu Barnes, and COVID-19 protocols that do not al-
low them to play teams from the Eastern Conference.
U.S. Division teams won’t
play against Canadian teams
because of the border cross-
ing limitations.
This season’s version
of the Tri-City Americans,
started with a home opener
against the Portland Winter-
hawks on Friday, Oct. 1, with
a 5-4 shootout victory.
Alex Wittwer/EO Media Group
Eastern Oregon University quarter-
back Kai Quinn throws a pass Sept.
25, 2021, against the College of Idaho,
at Community Stadium in La Grande.
The Mountaineers started the season
with three wins but then lost back-to-
back games to stand at 3-2.
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