LA GRANDE, Ore. – No. 14-ranked Eastern Oregon took care of business to wrap up regular season play in Quinn Coliseum. The Mounties handled the Warriors with ease taking a 98-65 win over Corban.
Sailor Liefke led the Mounties with 18 points scoring her 1,000th career point as a Mountie. With the win EOU advances to 24-2 overall and 19-1 in CCC play pushing their current win streak to 14. The loss drops Corban to 12-14 overall and 9-11 in conference competition.
Eastern's offense came out of the gates a little slow, but the Mounties were still able to put up 17 points in the first quarter on 35% shooting. Corban stuck around with 13 on 30% shooting. Neither team found a rhythm from deep as they combined to go 2-9 from three. Eastern added onto their lead in the second quarter outscoring the Warriors 21-15. They got out to their biggest lead to that point midway through thanks to an 8-2 run. At the half EOU led 38-28.
The third quarter determined the game as the Mounties opened with a 19-4 run fueled by nine points from
Bayley Brennan. Brennan added one more three in the quarter as Eastern blew the game open with a 34-15 quarter that saw the Mounties go 7-9 from deep. After three the Mounties led 72-43. With the game in hand EOU added four more to their lead throughout the fourth quarter to take the 98-65 victory.
EOU will wrap up the regular season on the road taking on Evergreen State and Northwest next weekend. Tipoff against the Geoducks is set for 5:30 p.m. on Friday night in Olympia, Washington.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Sailor Liefke joined the 1,000-point club marking the second night in a row a Mountie hit the milestone (Beverly Slater scored her 1,000th point Friday evening)
- After a slow start from deep the Mounties turned it around going 16-29 from three with Shaelie Burgess even taking and making her first three-pointer of the season
- Corban tried to slow down the game taking on average four more seconds per possession to score
STANDOUT PERFORMANCES
- EOU
- CRB
- Maddie Godwin: 22 PTS, 9-20 FG, 3-8 3PT, 1 REB, 1 AST
- Izzy Boring: 11 PTS, 3-9 FG, 2-3 3PT, 8 REB, 4 AST
