EOU mounts a comeback

EOU mounts a comeback

George Ferguson

Shootouts have become the norm when Frontier Conference teams travel to LaGrande, Ore.

But it's been a while since the Montana State University-Northern football team has been in one with the Eastern Oregon Mountaineers.

However, on Saturday afternoon in LaGrande, that's exactly what the Lights fell victim to as EOU mounted a fourth-quarter comeback to edge the Lights 50-46.

The Mounties scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns on back-to-back three-minute drives, then ran the clock out to escape with their first win of the 2010 campaign, and hand the Lights a...