NWAC VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS: Home cooking .. Cardinals' bid for conference title fueled largely by local players

JASON ELLIOTT/Press Members of the North Idaho College volleyball team Rylee Hartwig (9), Abigail Neff (1), Paige Dreschel (3), Rachael Stacey (5), Brooklyn Minden (13) and Taylin Rowley (12) celebrate a point in the third set of last Saturday's match against Tacoma at Christianson Gymnasium. Hartwig (Post Falls High), Neff (Lakeland), Dreschel (Coeur d'Alene), Minden (Post Falls) and Rowley (Coeur d'Alene) have been key pieces in the Cardinals run to the Elite 8 of the Northwest Athletic Conference championships, which resume today in Lakewood, Wash.