LA GRANDE, Ore. - The Eastern Oregon University football team can say this. . . for thirty minutes they held their own with the NAIA's best team. Unfortunately, the Mounties made some costly second half mistakes and the #1 ranked Saints made them pay. The result, a lopsided 48-10 win for Carroll College.
After a back and forth battle for field position that left the Mounties up 10-7 with just 2:05 to go in the first half. Saints Quarterback Dane Broadhead threw a dart to Corey Peterson who scampered 33 yards to take the lead and the momentum into the intermission.

The second half was all Carroll College as the team that has won five of the last six NAIA National Championships capitalized on four Mountaineer turnovers and a special teams unit that routinely forced Eastern to start their offensive possessions inside their own ten yard line.

Carroll focused their defensive attention on raining NAIA Offensive Player of the Week Chris Ware who finished 16-35 for 191 yards and three interceptions. Ware did gain 57 yards and a touchdown on the ground for the Mounties.

Defensively, junior Free Safety Jeff McNally led EOU 13 tackles, 9 of which were unassisted. McNally also registered one of the Mounties 3 sacks on the day.

Eastern will try and bounce back next weekend when they travel to Montana Tech who they beat 38-28 in the season opener back on September 6th. You can follow the team on the road by logging on to www.eou.edu/athletics and clicking on the football gameweek link.

The EOU will return to Community Stadium for Homecoming against Montana State-Northern Saturday October 18th. Kick off is set for 1:00pm