Box Score


La Grande, Ore. – The No.2  Mountaineer men's basketball team beat No. 21 Northwest University in tonight's Cascade Collegiate Conference match-up, 77-63.

Eastern was led in scoring by senior Anthony Brown who finished with a double-double scoring 19 points and 14 rebounds. Zack Anderson added 19 points and 6 rebounds, while Trent Roos scored 11.

Ryan Dornik led Northwest with 16 points and 5 rebounds. Michael Greene and Nemanja Grujicic finished with 13 and 10 points respectively.

In an evenly matched first half, Anderson led the way for EOU with 12 points. Northwest would gain a 5 point lead early into the first half forcing Eastern to battle back. The Mountaineers would then come back to tie the game at 12 before taking their largest lead of the half, 33-25 with just 4:11 left to play. The first half saw five different lead changes and seven ties . Northwest closed the gap to just 3 sending Eastern to the locker room leading 36-33.

Eastern shot 40% (11-of-27) from the field and 35% (5-of-14) from behind the arc. Northwest came out shooting 48% (12-of-25) from the field and 55% (5-of-9) from the three point line.

To start off the second half the two teams continued to exchange baskets until midway through the half, when EOU's Brown hit a three to gain their largest lead of the game at 60-51. Eastern then followed with back to back baskets by Michael Crane and Roos forcing Northwest to a timeout. The Mountaineers went on a 14-0 run until the Eagles' Brett Skogstad and Dornik would hit back to back threes  cutting the game to 72-57 with 4:03 remaining. Northwest then went on a 10-0 run before Eastern hit a jumper to regain momentum with one minute left to play.

As a team EOU finished shooting 47% (29-of-61) from the field and 29% (8-of-27) from the three point line. Northwest shot 43% (23-of-53) from the field and 41% (10-of-24) from downtown.

Eastern will come back from vacation and travel to Northwest Christian University Jan. 4, game time is set for 7:30 p.m. Live stats and video will be available at EOUsports.com