The offense was as impressive as the weather.

Sophomore quarterback Gage Gubrud threw for 202 yards and had just a single incompletion as the Eastern Washington offense rolled up 494 yards and 46 points on a sun-kissed Saturday morning during a football scrimmage at Roos Field in Cheney.

Gubrud completed 16-of-17 passes for 202 yards and three touchdowns, and Reilly Hennessey added 130 yards and two more scores. The offense had 362 yards passing and another 132 rushing as EWU concluded its first two weeks of preseason practices with the 71-play scrimmage.

Four sacks and an interception highlighted the day for the defense, which also stopped the offense four times during a 4th-and-1 drill during the situational portion of the scrimmage. The defense also nearly came up with an interception, forced a fumble and had another fumble by the offense ruled dead.

“You’re going to have ebbs and flows,” said Eastern Washington coach Beau Baldwin, who also had officials talk to the team before the scrimmage about rules changes for the 2016 season.

“You are going to have things go up and down. It’s played at a tempo, and there are certain rules that allow things to happen with how much it is spread out. You have to keep responding and have to keep finding ways to grind no matter what’s happening the play before — whether it’s our offense or our defense. That’s what I’m looking for with our guys. How are they coming back from anything that happened before? How are we attacking things? I think that our guys handled that game-day operation of things very well.”

Three of Gubrud’s touchdown drives capped 70-yard drives, and another on a 27-yard red zone possession. He had a pair of 21-yard TD passes to Stu Stiles, and one of 10 yards to Shaq Hill.

Hennessey, also a sophomore, was 8-of-14 and had a 15-yard TD pass to Jayson Williams, and another after a completed pass was fumbled and picked up by Williams for a 16-yard score.

True freshman Antoine Custer Jr. had a 5-yard rushing touchdown, and Roldan Alcobendas and Brandyn Bangsund had field goals of 47 and 36 yards, respectively.

Custer had 21 yards on three carries as the EWU running game featured five runs of better than 10 yards. Sophomore Sam McPherson led the way with 39 yards, and Gubrud and Ashanti Kindle each had 28. Another true freshman, Tamarick Pierce had 21.

The defense was led by Dehonta Hayes with six tackles and Kurt Calhoun with five tackles and a pass broken up. Andre Lino had a pair of sacks.

The Eagles have two more weeks of practices to prepare for the team’s Sept. 3 opener at Washington State, which will be televised at 5 p.m. on the Pac-12 Networks.

The Eagles will also scrimmage on Friday at 9:45 a.m. The scrimmage is free and open to the public, and will take place on the red Sprinturf surface at Roos Field. Times and locations of all remaining practices prior to the opener are listed below, and are tentative and subject to change.

SCORING PLAYS

Stu Stiles 21 pass from Gage Gubrud (Roldan Alcobendas kick)

Jayson Williams 14 fumble recovery (Brandyn Bangsund kick blocked)

Stiles 21 pass from Gubrud (Alcobendas kick)

FG Alcobendas 47

Antoine Custer Jr. 5 run (Bangsund kick)

Williams 15 from Gubrud (Alcobendas kick blocked)

Shaq Hill 10 pass from Gubrud (Alcobendas kick)

FG Bangsund 36

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING — Sam McPherson 7-39, Ashanti Kindle 3-28, Gage Gubrud 4-28, Antoine Custer Jr. 3-21, Tamarick Pierce 5-21, Eric Barriere 4-9, Dennis Merritt 1-1, Jabari Wilson 3-minus-4, Reilly Hennessey 1-minus-5. Jordan West 1-minus-6.

PASSING — Gage Gubrud, 16-17-0-202, Reilly Hennessey, 8-14-0-130, Eric Barriere, 2-4-0-16, Jordan West, 2-4-1-14.

RECEIVING — Nic Sblendorio 5-61, Jayson Williams 4-66, Shaq Hill 4-50, Nsimba Webster 3-57, Stu Stiles 3-44, Terence Grady 2-12, Ashanti Kindle 2-3, Dre’ Sonte Dorton 1-35, Antoine Custer Jr. 1-15, Jayce Gilder 1-12, Henderson Belk 1-4, Sam McPherson 1-3.