W. Basketball: Vandals claw the Eagles

All Sports Feb 21, 2017 Meredith Spelbring -The Idaho women’s basketball team hit the court in the Cowan Spectrum to take on conference rivals Eastern Washington. While the game got off to a close start the Vandals shut down the Eagles, earning a 78-51 victory.

Idaho head coach Jon Newlee said he thought the defensive effort helped the Vandals grab the win.

“I thought we brought a lot of good defensive energy tonight, followed the game plan,” Newlee said. “They are a very dangerous team and they have three players, who can really score in bunches and score quickly. Wendy (Schuller) does a great job with them so as to be able to play defense the way we did tonight was, should give us a lot of…