Cardinals swept by Big Bend

MOSES LAKE — Big Bend Community College rallied with three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning of the second game to beat North Idaho College 6-5 on Wednesday, completing a sweep of the Northwest Athletic Conference East Region softball doubleheader.

Big Bend won the first game 9-7.

NIC hit four homers in the first game, including a three-run shot by Kennedy Anderson in the fifth. Megan Carver hit a two-run homer in the seventh.

Fifth-place Big Bend is 15-21, 12-16.

NIC (27-13, 18-10), in third place in the NWAC East, plays host to Yakima Valley on Saturday in a noon doubleheader at Memorial Field.

FIRST GAME

NIC 000 040 3 — 7 9 2

Big Bend 204 030 x — 9 11 2

Kayla Moore, McKensie Brittos (3), Kelly Kearney (5) and Nikki Miller; S. Baker and T. Ferguson. W — Baker (12-16). L — Moore (13-10).

HITS: NIC — Schaller, Curtan, Anderson 2, Carver, Yurick 2, Miller, Raynor. BB — Ferguson, Korten, Goslin, Armstrong 3, Trejo 2, Hughes 2, Flemming. 2B — Hughes. HR — Anderson (13), Carver (8), Yurick (3), Raynor (4), Korten (3), Hughes (4).

SECOND GAME

NIC 011 210 0 — 5 13 1

Big Bend 210 003 x — 6 7 0

Kayla Moore, Audrey Seipert (4), Kelly Kearney (6) and Nikki Miller; S. Baker and M. Goslin. W — Baker (13-16). L — Kearney (0-1).

HITS: NIC — Schaller, Curtan 2, Anderson 2, Yurick, Carver 3, Schwab 2, Miller, Raynor. BB — Nickelson, Korten, Goslin, Sandoval, Flemming 3. 2B — Carver, Miller, Raynor. HR — Schwab (2), Goslin (6), Sandoval (2).