Miscues doom Cardinals in loss to CSI

TWIN FALLS - Leeta Grap and Larissa Claassen had 14 kills each, but it was the points that the 15th-ranked North Idaho Cardinals gave back to the seventh-ranked Southern Idaho Golden Eagles that doomed them on Saturday.

NIC finished with 34 attacking errors, 11 more on serves in a 26-24, 25-23, 23-25, 25-20 loss to the defending national champion Golden Eagles in a Scenic West Athletic Conference match.

"We may have squandered the opportunity to beat a good team," NIC coach Miles Kydd said. "Those kinds of things (points on errors) add up in a hurry. It didn't look like the barnburner that the score might indicate. We didn't play well and CSI didn't play very well either."

Anyssa Matheson had 11 kills, Allison Meehan 26 assists, Maddi Seidl 12 assists and LeeNell Hernandez 15 digs for NIC (10-8, 3-2 SWAC), which hosts Colorado Northwestern (3-21, 0-5) on Thursday at Christianson Gym.

Natasa Sanvovic had 15 kills and 13 digs, Katarina Kojic had 43 assists, Braiden Johnston 18 digs for CSI (16-7, 4-1), which hosts Utah State-Eastern on Thursday.