NIC ROUNDUP: Cardinals open season with one win, two losses
* SOFTBALL
LAS VEGAS - Kelsey LaVaute drove in Shelby Carter with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth inning for North Idaho College in a 7-6 win over South Mountain as the Cardinals softball team went 1-2 on the first day of the season-opening Kickoff Classic on Friday.
Emily Perlich struck out five of six batters faced against South Mountain for NIC, had four strikeouts against Eastern Arizona and added eight against Central Arizona.
"Considering we have not had a practice on dirt this year, we played well defensively," NIC coach Don Don Williams said. "We need to find the consistency in our bats tomorrow and build on the great performance of Perlich in the circle."
NIC faces Chipola and Arizona Western today.
EASTERN ARIZONA 4,
NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE 2
North Idaho 002 000 0 - 2 2 2
Eastern Arizona 010 003 x - 4 3 1
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CENTRAL ARIZONA 6,
NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE 2
North Idaho 000 001 1 - 2 4 1
Central Arizona 100 050 x - 6 6 1
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NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE 7
SOUTH MOUNTAIN 6
South Mountain 104 100 0 - 6 7 2
North Idaho 300 103 x - 7 5 2
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* WRESTLING
North Idaho 38
Western Wyoming 3
POWELL, Wyo. - Brock Banta (125 pounds), Jarrett Morrill (141) and V.J. Giulio (197) won their matches by pin as the top-ranked NJCAA Cardinals beat the 14th-ranked Mustangs 38-3 in the opening day of the Apodaca Duals at Northwest College.
"All the guys wrestled pretty well," NIC coach Pat Whitcomb said. "It was nice to get that one under our belt with a couple of tough duals coming up on Saturday. You never know how the guys will do after a long van ride, but the guys went out and got after it. Jarrett had been back and forth with that kid in the past. He really came out and took it to him. He always wrestles hard and is starting to put things together. It really couldn't have happened at a better time of the year."
NIC (10-1) won 9 of 10 matches and concludes the tournament against fifth-ranked Iowa Central today at 11 a.m. PST and tourney host and seventh-ranked Northwest at 1 p.m.
The NIC-Northwest match will be available by webcast at www.ihigh.com.
125 - Brock Banta, NIC, p. Adrian Avelar, 2:31. 133 - Mikey Rodriguez, NIC, d. Caleb Walker, 3-1. 141 - Jarrett Morrill, p. Justin Luna, 4:03. 149 - Jeremy Golding, NIC, d. Dillon Karjanis, 12-6. 157 - Nicholas Moreno, NIC, d. Dixon Richins, 12-6. 165 - Jake Mason, NIC, d. Scott Verner, 6-0. 174 - Kyle Sweedman, NIC, md. Ross Taylor, 15-5. 184 - Caleb Rivera, NIC, md. Matthew Spoon, 13-5. 197 - V.J. Giulio, NIC, p. Riley Argyle, 2:38. 285 - Michael Williams, WWC, d. Curtis Berger, 3-2.