The Panthers earned every bit of their 60-0 win on Saturday against Bowling Green at EIU Rugby Field.

The scoreboard could not do justice to show how the game actually went, as the Panthers were held to a season-low 60 points. Freshman lock Erin Norton certainly feels good after a win like this, considering she was recruited by Bowling Green.

“I really enjoyed beating them,” Norton said.

Norton, a native of Ohio, chose not to attend Bowling Green, because the school had no coach when she was being recruited.

Norton had incentive to beat the Falcons on Saturday because of her connection with Bowling Green head coach Kurt Weaver.

“He coached a team back in Cleveland called the Iron Maidens,” Norton said. “His brother coached a team who played against us in high school.”

The Panthers were held to their lowest scoring total of the season and were only up 36-0 at halftime.

Weaver said that his team’s biggest problem was not getting the ball up field.

“They hit hard, they tackled hard, they stayed aggressive all the way through the end of the game,” Weaver said about his team.

“Against a team like Eastern, you got to hang in there with a lot of heart because they do run the ball so well.”

Bowling Green scrum-half Casey Hamilton said that they have been down at halftime before, and have come back to win those games.

“That’s the kind of team we are,” Hamilton said. “We work through it, we look at the scoreboard and think its zero-zero.”

Bowling Green held Eastern’s main scoring threat, sophomore left wing Samantha Manto to one try. Despite scoring a season-low 60 points, the team extended its shutout streak to five games, dating back to last season.

Eastern head coach Frank Graziano said he thought had the weather been a lot worse, the outcome of the game would have been completely different because the wetness on the field would have made Eastern’s good ball handling skills go to waste.

“I bet that score would have been cut in half if we would have had a wet day,” Graziano said.