NORTHWEST NOTES: Wednesday, January 27, 2016

| January 27, 2016 8:00 PM

Ex-Viking star Orlandi earns

conference top player honors

WHITEFISH, Mont. — For the third time this season, Lewis-Clark State College women’s basketball point guard Caelyn Orlandi has earned Frontier Conference women’s basketball Player of the Week honors.

On Saturday, the 5-foot-9 junior from Coeur d’Alene led LCSC to a 71-65 victory over no. 5 Carroll College. The versatile Orlandi did it all for the Warriors in the double-overtime thriller as she led LC with 23 points and seven rebounds while also adding four assists and three steals. She shot 66.7 percent in the game and was big down the stretch.

Orlandi scored the final six points in regulation for the Warriors which included a steal and a layin with 38.3 seconds left. Then, following another Saints turnover, she hit a jumper to tie the game with 22 seconds remaining. Her runner in the lane with 11.9 seconds left in the final overtime helped seal the game putting the Warriors ahead 69-65.