NIC ROUNDUP: Cardinal women roll at Walla Walla

| October 25, 2015 10:00 PM

• WOMEN’S SOCCER

WALLA WALLA — Meg Lowery scored two goals, raising her total to eight in the last three matches, and Corinne Ariss had a goal and an assist to lead North Idaho College past the Walla Walla Warriors 5-1 on Saturday in Northwest Athletic Conference play.

Haley White had two assists for NIC (9-4-2, 7-2-1 NWAC, 22 points), which travels to Spokane (11-2-1, 8-2-0, 24 points) on Wednesday at 5 p.m. in a battle for first place in the East Division.

Walla Walla is 5-7-3, 4-5-1.

First half — 1, NIC, Emily Aspden (Haley White), 10:00. 2, NIC, Meg Lowery (White), 19:00. Second half — 3, WW, Jas Lemos (penalty kick), 55:00. 4, NIC, Lowery (Corinne Ariss), 60:00. 5, NIC, Ariss (Jasmine Smith), 62:00. 6, NIC, Jessica Scott (unassisted), 68:00.

Shots on goal — NIC 16, WW 9.

Saves — NIC, Cassy Van Der May 2, Tiegan Horton 1; WW, Annika Enloe 8.

• MEN’S SOCCER

Walla Walla 2

North Idaho 1

WALLA WALLA — Jorge Carmona of North Idaho College drilled a ball from 20 yards out to his left, scoring on a free kick, but the Cardinals could not come back in a loss to the Warriors in Northwest Athletic Conference play.

“They probably had one or two that were dangerous that they didn’t put away that one of our goalies came up big on,” NIC coach Ken Thompson said. “For us, this was the third game in a row where we used some our defenders to play forward. It’s the state of the team with our health.”

NIC (5-7-4, 3-5-4) plays at Community Colleges of Spokane on Wednesday.

First half — 1, WW Juan Sanchez (Jose Anguiano), 29:00. Second half — 2, WW, Anthony Arroyo (Alex Saldana), 62:00. 3, NIC Jorge Carmona (unassisted), 76:00.

Shots on goal — WW 14, NIC 6.

Saves — WW, Francisco Flores 3, NIC Mitch Markovetz 6, Tanner Horton 6.

• VOLLEYBALL

North Idaho d.

Utah State-Eastern

PRICE, Utah — Julia Silva had 10 kills and Brittany Gay 33 assists and 10 digs, leading the Cardinals past the Golden Eagles 25-19, 30-28, 25-21 in a Scenic West Athletic Conference match.

Matilda Altin and Brooke Bell had eight kills each, Penny Gwynn 19 digs and seven kills and Brenna Meehan seven kills and 10 digs for NIC (16-13, 7-3 SWAC), which wraps up conference play next weekend as they host Snow on Friday and Southern Nevada on Saturday.

Paige Eyring had 10 kills and 10 digs for Utah State-Eastern (12-15, 3-7).

The Region 18 tournament is scheduled for Nov. 5-7.