No. 12 NIC women hammered by CSI

| February 5, 2012 8:00 PM

TWIN FALLS - Mechela Barnes scored a game-high 20 points and Chakala Carthen added 16 points and 14 rebounds as Southern Idaho routed 12th-ranked North Idaho College 72-51 in a Scenic West Athletic Conference game Saturday.

CSI (11-12, 3-5 SWAC) outrebounded NIC 48-36 and forced 17 turnovers.

NIC (17-4, 6-2), which suffered its second straight conference loss, dropped into second place in the SWAC behind Snow (14-9, 7-2), which beat Utah State University-Eastern Utah on Saturday.

Korina Baker scored 11 points for NIC, which hosts Colorado Northwestern on Thursday in its first home game since Jan. 13.

NORTH IDAHO

Katie Buskey 3-9 2-2 10, Korina Baker 5-13 1-2 11, Julia Salmio 4-8 0-0 10, Ashleigh Kelman-Poto 0-6 0-0 0, Angela Woods 2-7 1-3 6, Tori Davenport 0-2 0-0 0, Dani Kastrava 0-0 0-0 0, Aimee Durbidge 2-5 1-1 5, Mollie Kramer 1-1 0-0 2, Hannah Love 2-5 0-0 4, Danika Johnson 1-3 1-3 3. Totals 20-59 6-11 51.

SOUTHERN IDAHO

Tayllor Gipson 5-11 0-0 11, Kylee Schierman 3-9 7-9 13, Mechela Barnes 6-16 5-7 20, Chakala Carthen 8-18 0-1 16, Jessy Saint-Felix 2-2 2-2 6, Adriana Dent 0-0 0-0 0, Madie Kimball 1-3 0-0 2, Megan Tanner 2-3 0-0 4, Gabriela Borges 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 27-63 14-19 72.

Halftime - CSI 40-26. 3-point goals - NIC 5-22 (Buskey 2-5, Baker 0-7, Salmio 2-2, Kelman-Poto 0-1, Woods 1-4, Davenport 0-1, Durbidge 0-1, Johnson 0-1), CSI 4-13 (Gipson 1-1, Schierman 0-3, Barnes 3-9). Rebounds - NIC 36 (Baker 6), CSI 48 (Carthen 14). Assists - NIC 6 (Buskey 2), CSI 13 (Schierman 6). Team fouls - NIC 18, CSI 10. Fouled out - none.