Box Score

Olympia, Wash. The No.1 ranked Eastern Oregon Mountaineers defeated the Evergreen State College Geoducks, 82-67,  in a Cascade Collegiate Conference matchup at CRC Gymnasium Saturday night.


Senior Cody Thurmond led the Mountaineers (24-1, 12-1 CCC) with 17 points and 2 rebounds. Senior Trent Roos finished with 13 points and 2 rebounds, while Junior transfer Michael Crane added 10 points and 9 rebounds.

Evergreen (2-19, 1-12 CCC) was led by Frankie Johnson with 21 points and 3 rebounds. Cody Peters added 13 points and 5 rebounds, teammate Marc Taylor finished with 12 points 6 rebounds.

Eastern jumped out to an early eight point lead in the first four minutes 13-5, but Evergreen would battle right back and go on an 8-0 run of their own to tie the game at 13 with 14:52 left to play in the half. Zach Anderson would knock down his second three pointer of the game gave to give Eastern a 20-13 point lead midway through the half. Evergreen continued to hang around before EOU went on a 9-0 run just before the half to gain their largest lead, 13, heading into the locker room up, 39-26.

EOU came out in the second half and continued to hold on to their double-digit lead. The Mountaineers extended their lead by as much as 18, 63-45, with 9:37 left to play. Evergreen surged back and cut the Mountaineers lead to single digits with just over three minutes to play. Eastern answered with 6-0 run of their own, putting the game out of reach and capturing their tenth win in a row.

Eastern finished shooting 26-of-57 (45%) from the field and 11-of-23 (47%) from downtown. Evergreen shot 26-of-71 (36%) from the field and 9-of-24 (37%) from behind the arc.

As a team EOU out rebounded ESC 48-34 and outscored their bennch 42-6.

Eastern will return home to play Corban next Friday, Feb.1 game time is set for 7:30 p.m. Live stats and video will be available at
EOUsports.com