It's somehow fitting that Roy Kidd's final home game would have a huge impact in deciding the outcome of the Ohio Valley Conference championship.

It took the Eastern men's basketball team 35 minutes before they awoke from their summer slumber.

Eastern's one and only exhibition game of the season ended disappointingly as the the Panthers lost to the Reebok Lady Stars by a score of 70-59.

The success of a football team can usually be gauged by the team's blocking, tackling or catching.

For one half, the Eastern football team delivered the kind of shellacking against Tennessee-Martin few offenses are capable of implementing.

A full 90 minutes of regulation and two 10-minute overtime periods at Houck Stadium in Cape Girardeau, Mo., were not enough to decide the outcome of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament women's soccer championship.

If Panther head coach Bob Spoo starts sounding like your mom the next few weeks, forgive him.

Panther defensive coordinator Roc Bellatoni was surprisingly upbeat the week after Eastern's 54-48 win over Tennessee State.

Eastern enters this year's Missouri Valley Conference Tournament with the No. 7 seed out of eight teams in the tournament.

Even though the Panther men's and women's teams thrived at the OVC Championship meet last weekend, head coach John McInerney is not yet ready to call it a season.

Women's basketball schedule

Eastern women's basketball will start this season from where it left off last year.