NIC SOFTBALL: Cardinals sweep Columbia Basin; Walla Walla up next
Photo courtesy of NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE North Idaho College right fielder Reiss McIntyre catches a line drive in the top of the third inning in the opening game of a Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader against Columbia Basin at Memorial Field.
Photo courtesy of NORTH IDAHO COLLEGE North Idaho College sophomore Megan Dobrev slides into home in the bottom of the first inning of the first game of Wednesday's Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheader at Memorial Field.
COEUR d’ALENE — North Idaho College freshman Hayden Rockwell had four hits, including two home runs in the Cardinals 11-5 win over the Columbia Basin Hawks in the first game of a Northwest Athletic Conference sweep at Memorial Field on Wednesday.
Kani Korok had two hits in the second game in NIC’s 11-0 win in the second game.
NIC (28-9, 20-4 NWAC) returns home today to face Walla Walla in a doubleheader at 2 p.m. The game was moved up due to inclement weather in the forecast for Saturday.
Columbia Basin is 28-12, 18-8.
FIRST GAME
Columbia Basin 003 100 0 — 5 9 3
North Idaho 300 152 x — 11 11 3
Columbia Basin battery unavailable; Kennedy Hobson and Summer Makinster.
HITS: CBC — Blankenship, Nixon 2, Raymond 2, Fraser, Kay, Bryson, Hart. NIC —Rockwell 4, Korok, Dobrev, Solberg, Imbler-Bremner, McIntyre. 2B — Bryson, Rockwell, Dobrev, McIntyre. HR — Rockwell 2.
SECOND GAME
Columbia Basin 000 00 — 0 2 0
North Idaho 215 3x — 11 9 2
Graci Brady and Mary Comack; Abbey Brooks and Summer Makinster.
HITS: CBC — Nixon, Jackson. NIC — Korok 2, Makinster, Dobrev, Imbler-Bremner 3, Schulhauser, McIntyre. 2B — Dobrov, Korok, Imbler-Bremner 2, Schulhauser. 3B — McIntyre.
