#5 Eastern Eagles (7-2, 5-1 BSC) vs. Cal-Davis Aggies (3-6, 2-4 BSC)
* * * * * * * * Senior Day * * * * * * * *
Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012 • 1:35 p.m. Pacific
Roos Field (8,600) • Cheney, Wash.
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Series: EWU leads 2-0
Last Meeting: EWU won 41-31 on 9/15/07 in Cheney
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The first of two giant steps to extend a promising 2012 season takes place this Saturday (Nov. 10) when the Eastern Washington University football teams hosts UC Davis on "Senior Day” at Roos Field in Cheney, Wash. Kickoff at “The Inferno” is 1:35 p.m. Pacific time as the Eagles bid farewell to 16 EWU seniors.
Besides trying to send the seniors out with a victory, Eastern is hoping to finish the regular season 5-0 at home. Since the red Sprinturf surface was installed in 2010, Eastern is 14-2 at “The Inferno.” Last week’s game was sold out, with an announced attendance of 8,644 – the seventh-largest non-Montana crowd in Roos Field history.
With an average of 9,133 fans attending four home games thus far, the Eagles are on pace to set the school’s single season record for average attendance set last season of 8,898 per game. Eastern would need to have 7,957 fans attend the UC Davis game to equal the mark, although possible home playoff games would factor into that as well.
“I love being here and I love the fans,” said Baldwin. “I know we had another sellout, and even when the weather wasn’t great you still felt them here -- that’s big. There is nothing like being at home. We can’t wait to be here against UC Davis.”
The Aggies, who are 3-6 overall and 2-4 in their first year as a member of the Big Sky Conference (football only), are coming off a bye week. They are a hard-luck team with an excruciating schedule, and suffered narrow losses by eight points or less to three nationally-ranked teams -- Cal Poly (28-20), Montana State (48-41) and South Dakota State (12-8). They also lost just 21-7 on the road to nationally-ranked Big Sky leader Northern Arizona.
Baldwin is pleased with the way his team – and in particular his veteran leaders – responded to the challenge following its frustrating 30-27 loss at Southern Utah, which cost the Eagles their No. 1 ranking in FCS.
“They answered it,” he said. “The season is long and the Big Sky is tough. When you have a game like we had when a few things didn’t go right and Southern Utah did a great job against us, the best thing you can do is learn from it and then move on. Even if we had won that game, you get to Monday and you move forward. That’s what you have to do. You can’t ever hold on to a win, and you can’t let a loss beat you twice. I’m saying something that every coach says and there is a truth to it. There is a reason everyone says that. It’s one thing to say it and it is another thing to have a bunch of leaders in the locker room who truly come back and act that way.”
