GDT: WIU at EIU (9/1/2016)

[wiu712]

KHQA-TV-7 did their 6PM Sports from the sidelines. Nico Haeflinger (a 2014 Western grad) is at the game.

[WIU2DC]

Great win tonight. Glad we started off the season 1-0. But the teams we play from here on out only get tougher. Both of our RB's impressed the crap out of me but McGuire didn't look too hot tonight. The question I have is if he plays like this next week when will the coach pull him and put Norvell in? Oh and it was nice not worryin about our special teams for once.

[rocki]

I know. If that's the better of the two, I really overestimated our QB potential. Glad we've got a run game, but losing the passing game bites.

[ST_Lawson]

Yea..got the win this time. Need to shore up that defense on the long ball or NAU is going to tear us apart.

[rocki]

For sure.

[sealhall74]

Good game on the road. It could have gotten away from us but they hung in. Need to shore up some things on both sides of ball to beat a good NAU team next week.

[vatusay]

They torched wiu's secondary all night.

[BobLovely]

Great first win of the season! The final score makes me feel good about my prediction of a 16 point margin of victory. There are always things to clean up after the first game and this will happen. On to Northern Arizona!

Bob

[ST_Lawson]

Damn, just noticed that McShane ran for 207 yards, 2 TDs, and caught for 56 yards. He's our leading rusher and receiver at this point.

[wiu712]

Western had 109 passing yards. Eastern had 366.

Western had 238 rushing yards. Eastern had 102.

Nathan Knuffman tied his career-record with a 43 yard field goal. He averaged 40.2 net yards on his 7 punts.

Attendance at Eastern Illinois = 7,618.