NIC ROUNDUP: Guilio wins, five other Card wrestlers 2nd

| November 11, 2012 9:01 PM

* WRESTLING

POWELL, Wyo. - North Idaho freshman V.J. Guilio, wrestling unattached, pinned Dylan Lemery of Great Falls in 49 seconds to win the 197-pound championship at the Northwest Open on Saturday on the campus of Northwest College.

"V.J. had a really good tournament," NIC coach Pat Whitcomb said. "We're looking forward to getting him in our lineup at semester."

NIC qualified five others for the finals, with Jeremy Golding (149), Nico Moreno (157), Kyle Sweedman (174), Caleb Rivera (184) and Bryan Smith (285) all finishing second.

"We would have liked to have won a few of those matches, but the guys wrestled well," Whitcomb said. "Overall it was a pretty good tournament with leaving (Brock) Banta, (Mikey) Rodriguez and (Jake) Mason at home (all are out with illness). Had those guys been here, it could have been a different outcome, but we're happy with how the guys did today."

Jarrett Morrill finished sixth at 141 after defaulting out of the tournament due to injury.

NIC returns home to host the Cardinal Duals on Saturday.

North Idaho 92

Dawson 59

GLENDIVE, Mont. - Freshman James Webb had a game-high 18 points in 16 minutes as the 24th-ranked Cardinals defeated the Buccaneers in a nonconference game to wrap up a five-game road trip to start the season.

"These were some tough games," NIC coach Jared Phay said. "But James is getting better and better each game and played well tonight."

NIC outscored Dawson 54-33 in the second half to pull away.

"I was proud of our effort tonight," Phay said. "We were up 12 (38-26) at halftime and it felt like we had that killer instinct tonight and did what we had to do to win."

Mikey Hope had 13 points and Michael Middlebrooks 12 points and three blocks for NIC (4-1), which hosts the Gonzaga club team on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

NORTH IDAHO

Jordan McCloud 2-4 1-2 6, Jalil Abdul-Bassit 2-4 2-2 7, Chris Sarbaugh 0-3 0-0 0, Jason Wheelock 2-3 1-2 6, Andrew Baracco 1-4 0-0 2, Keon Lewis 2-2 2-3 6, Michael Middlebrooks 4-6 4-5 12, Mikey Hope 5-9 3-5 13, Dalen Erickson 1-5 0-0 3, James Webb 6-9 6-7 18, Nathan Rathbun 3-4 2-3 8, Kaj Sherman 4-5 3-4 11. Totals 32-58 24-33 92.

DAWSON

Coulsen Wright 4-9 0-0 9, Bobby Anderson 0-0 0-0 0, Yak Brunson 2-2 1-1 5, Rico Booth 2-6 0-2 4, Yovann Zoric 1-1 2-2 4, Jaden Welsh 2-6 0-0 6, Brett Throgmorton 4-9 4-9 12, Abraham Ekperloh 4-12 1-1 10, Josue Louis 1-4 2-2 4, Jake Ebbon 1-2 1-2 3, Ken Carpenter 1-1 0-1 2. Totals 22-52 11-20 59.

Halftime - NIC 38-26. 3-point goals - NIC 4-17 (McCloud 1-1, Abdul-Bassit 1-2, Sarbaugh 0-3, Wheelock 1-1, Baracco 0-2, Hope 0-2, Erickson 1-4, Webb 0-2), DCC 4-16 (Wright 1-6, Booth 0-2, Welsh 2-4, Throgmorton 0-1, Ekperloh 1-2, Ebbon 0-1). Assists - NIC 15 (Sarbaugh 7), DCC 8 (Wright 3). Team fouls - NIC 19, DCC 23. Fouled out - none.

* WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

North Idaho 67

Dawson 55

GLENDIVE, Mont. - Kabri Emerson, a sophomore transfer from Montana State-Billings, scored a game-high 16 points and had six rebounds as the third-ranked (NJCAA) Cardinals defeated the Buccaneers in a nonconference game.

Angela Woods had 12 points and six steals and Katie Buskey 10 points for NIC (4-0), which outrebounded Dawson 40-27.

NIC hosts Columbia Basin College on Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m.

NORTH IDAHO

Angela Woods 4-9 2-2 12, Katie Buskey 3-11 3-4 10, Jansen Butler 0-0 0-0 0, Tori Davenport 0-2 0-0 0, Kabri Emerson 7-12 2-4 16, Georgia Stirton 2-7 2-5 7, Aimee Durbidge 3-6 2-4 8, Renae Morkrzycki 2-9 0-0 4, Mollie Kramer 2-5 0-0 4, Hannah Love 1-2 0-0 2, Danika Johnson 1-4 1-1 4. Totals 25-67 13-21 67.

DAWSON

Whitney Wallace 0-0 0-0 0, Keely Swander 2-4 0-0 5, Brittany Pascal 1-1 0-0 2, Liza Dennehy 0-0 0-0 0, Jaclyn Evans 2-2 6-6 10, Justine Taylor 2-6 0-0 5, Stephanie O'Sullivan 1-5 0-0 2, Haylee Gallegos 4-7 1-2 9, Bryce Mitchell 2-4 1-2 6, Brittany Smith 0-0 1-2 1, Janniqua Thomas 5-10 1-1 11, Lindsey James 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 21-42 10-13 55.

Halftime - NIC 33-24. 3-point goals - NIC 4-18 (Woods 2-5, Buskey 1-5, Davenport 0-2, Emerson 0-1, Stirton 1-3, Durbidge 0-1, Kramer 0-1), DCC 3-10 (Swander 1-3, Taylor 1-3, Gallegos 0-2, Mitchell 1-2). Rebounds - NIC 40 (Morkrzycki 10), DCC 27 (Thomas 8). Assists - NIC 8 (Stirton 3), DCC 10 (Gallegos 4). Team fouls - NIC 19, DCC 24. Fouled out - none.