East champs sweep Cardinals in softball

| May 15, 2017 1:00 AM

- SOFTBALL

COEUR d’ALENE — Visiting Wenatchee Valley swept North Idaho College 11-6 and 9-8 in Northwest Athletic Conference East Region softball play Sunday at Memorial Field to conclude the regular season.

Wenatchee Valley (32-10, 30-2 NWAC) won the East Region. NIC (29-15, 20-12) finished third.

Further details were unavailable.

Next up is the NWAC tournament starting Friday at the Merkel Sports Complex in Spokane.

- GOLF

NIC men second

after first day

BANDON, Ore. — The Cardinal men are in second place, six strokes back of host Southwestern Oregon, after the first day of the Southwestern Oregon Community College Invitational on Sunday at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.

Brady Nelson of NIC is tied for second after shooting a 2-under-par 69.

In the women’s tourney, NIC is in fourth place, 18 strokes back of first-place University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Madi Brown of NIC is tied for sixth after shooting 84.

Megan Cysewski of Community Colleges of Spokane, formerly of Lakeland High, is tied for the lead after shooting 79.

The tourney concludes today.

MEN

TEAM SCORES — 1, Southwestern Oregon 288. 2, North Idaho 294. 3 (tie), Skagit Valley, Grays Harbor 303. 5, Fraser Valley 305. 6, Bellevue 306. 7 (tie), Spokane, Walla Walla 313. 9 (tie), Columbia Basin, Douglas 319. 11, Olympic 322.

INDIVIDUALS — 1, Justin Cox, Grays Harbor, 66.

NORTH IDAHO — T2, Brady Nelson 69. T12, Ross Gilbert, Preston Nelson, Sean Langham 75. T21, Todd Henderson 76. T38, Jackson Shaver 79.

WOMEN

TEAM SCORES — 1, Fraser Valley 243. 2, Spokane 245. 3, Columbia Basin 259. 4, North Idaho 261. 5, Skagit Valley 265. 6, Olympic 270. 7, Southwestern Oregon 274. 8, Highline 278. 9, Walla Walla 292.

INDIVIDUALS — 1 (tie), Megan Cysewski, Spokane; Sharon Park, Fraser Valley, 79.

NORTH IDAHO — T6, Madi Brown 84. T10, Aly Mabey T20, Amalia Negrette 91. T27, Mikal Jerman 94.