Shorthanded Card wrestlers fall

- WRESTLING

BURNABY, British Columbia — Minus five starters, four because they didn’t have passports, the shorthanded North Idaho Cardinals fell 28-15 to NAIA Simon Fraser on Friday night in NIC’s final dual before the holiday break.

“Simon Fraser, they wrestled real well, and we just left too many guys on the other side of the border because of passports,” NIC coach Pat Whitcomb said. “But I don’t want to take anything away from Simon Fraser; they wrestled well. Izaiah (Duran), Tate (Christian Grover) and Hunter (Gregerson) did a good job wrestling some tough kids.”

Duran, Grover and Gregerson each won by decision for NIC, which moved up to fourth from 20th in the latest NJCAA poll.

NIC gets another shot at Simon Fraser on Jan. 24.

The Cardinals (6-4) return from the holiday break Jan. 10 at home vs. Eastern Oregon.

SIMON FRASER 28, NORTH IDAHO 15

133 — Riley Prough, SF, tf. Bryce Miller, 15-0. 141 — Randy McDonald, SF, p. Dylan Lockwood. 149 — Haasan Hawthorne, NIC, by forfeit. 157 — Taber Spray, SF, md. Cooper McCullough, 12-2. 165 — Izaiah Duran, NIC, d. Trevor Weltzin, 15-9. 174 — Logan Nelson, SF, tf. Austin Burrell, 20-3. 184 — Christian Grover, NIC, d. Connor Pattison, 11-6. 197 — Hunter Gregerson, NIC, d. Nolan Badonvinac, 6-1. 285 — Ciaran Ball, SF, tf. Winston Scott, 16-0. 125 — Pritpaul Johal, d. Brian Edelblute, 16-9.

- MEN’S BASKETBALL

North Idaho 94

Monterey Peninsula 70

SAN JOSE, Calif. — RayQuan Evans scored 18 points to lead the Cardinals past the Lobos in the San Jose City tournament on Friday afternoon.

Emmitt Taylor III scored 15 points — all on 3-point field goals — for NIC (8-0), which faces San Francisco City College tonight at 6 to conclude the tournament.

Talili Leaea scored 25 points for Monterey Peninsula (5-8).

North Idaho 44 50 — 94

Monterey Peninsula 33 40 — 73

NORTH IDAHO — RayQuan Evans 18, Nate Pryor 5, Emmitt Taylor III 15, Philip Malatare 8, Ian McLaughlin 5, Alphonso Anderson 6, Yusef Mohammed 7, James Carlson 0, Jarod Greene 10, Ismael Valdez 12, Drew Sheridan 0.

MONTEREY PENINSULA — Matt Briscoe 2, Muezzin Muwwakkil 8, Marquis Pickrom 4, Raushan Wooden 2, Cyle Carter 2, Quinn Ryan 10, Gavin Rippere 0, Anthony Dennis 12, Talili Leaea 25, Bryson Ryan 2, Tim Harper 6.