Cardinals, Walla Walla split in softball

SOFTBALL

COEUR d’ALENE — Abby Howard hit a two-run homer in a seven-run fifth inning and finished with four RBIs as North Idaho College defeated Walla Walla Community College 11-4 in the first game of a Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader Sunday at Lake City High.

Walla Walla came back to win the nightcap 10-9.

Chloe McIntosh went 3 for 4 and scored two runs in the opener for NIC (18-6, 12-4 NWAC), and Brittany Gay went 4 for 4. Nikki Miller homered to lead off the bottom of the fifth for the Cardinals, and Katie Barron added a two-run homer later in the inning.

In the second game, Jacie McDaniels’ RBI double in the top of the seventh for Walla Walla (11-13, 9-5) broke a 9-all tie. Gay went 3 for 5, including a homer, for NIC, which returns to action Saturday and Sunday at an NWAC crossover tournament in Yakima.

FIRST GAME

Walla Walla 100 300 — 4 9 1

North Idaho 100 073 — 11 4 0

Brittney Bradley and Jacie McDaniels; Katie Barron and Nikki Miller. W — Barron (8-3). L — Bradley (3-4).

HITS: WWCC — Williams, Watts 2, Faulkner 2, Ware, Taylor 2, Hicks. NIC — McIntosh 3, Howard 2, Barron, Miller 2, Lallas, Gay 4, Courtney, Haake, Raynor. 2B — Taylor, Howard. HR — Howard (8), Barron (8), Miller (9).

SECOND GAME

Walla Walla 001 152 1 — 10 18 0

North Idaho 103 032 0 — 9 16 1

M. Chavez, Brittney Bradley (5) and Jacie McDaniels; Amber Hawkes and Nikki Miller, Abby Howard. W — Bradley. L — Hawkes.

HITS: WWCC — Williams 2, Watts, Faulkner 2, Ware 2, McDaniels 3, Parker, Chadler, Lindgren, Taylor 2, Hicks 3. NIC — McIntosh 2, Howard, Barron 3, Miller 2, Gay 3, Yurick 2, Hawkes 2, Lallas. 2B — McDaniels, Hawkes. HR — Gay (8).

GOLF

NIC women tied for second

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Nicole Miller of North Idaho College shot 83 and is tied for third, and the Cardinal women are tied for second after the first round of the Highline Showdown at Twin Lakes Golf and Country Club.

NIC’s men are in sixth after the first round. Braydon Swapp of the Cardinals shot 76 and is tied for ninth.

The tourney concludes today.

WOMEN

TEAM SCORES — 1, Bellevue 262. 2 (tie), North Idaho, CC Spokane 270. 4, Southwestern Oregon 271. 5, Walla Walla 278. 6, Skagit Valley 281. 7, Olympic 282. 8, Columbia Basin 287. 9, Green River 308. 10, Highline 332. 11, Centralia 493.

NORTH IDAHO — Nicole Miller 83, Amalia Negrette 93, Mackenzie Phillips 94, Erica Frazier 94, Sierra Tingey 97.

MEN

TEAM SCORES — 1, Southwestern Oregon 301. 2, Bellevue 307, Skagit Valley 310. 4, Walla Walla 311. 5, Olympic 320. 6, North Idaho 321. 7, CC Spokane 322. 8, Columbia Basin 325. 9, Grays Harbor 332. 10, Green River 343.

NORTH IDAHO — Braydon Swapp 76, Luke Logan 81, Tyler Azevedo 81, Jackson Shaver 83, Jesse Lambert 83.