RANGELY, Colo. - Sophomore Shelby Carter hit a three-run home run in the second inning - the 37th of her career - as the North Idaho College Cardinals swept the Colorado Northwestern Spartans 10-0 and 7-3 on Saturday in the Scenic West Athletic Conference softball finale for both schools.

NIC (21-33, 15-28 SWAC) is the No. 5 seed and will open the Region 18 tournament against No. 4 Snow College (23-25) on Wednesday at 11 a.m. PDT in Twin Falls. No. 7 Colorado Northwestern (5-48, 4-44) will face second-seeded Salt Lake (44-9, 38-6) and No. 3 Southern Nevada (33-25, 26-21) will face No. 6 Western Nevada (18-41, 15-31) in other opening round games.

Conference champion Southern Idaho (47-9, 39-5) received a first-round bye, and will face the winner of the Snow-NIC game on Thursday.

Shanika Sawyer hit a two-run home run and Emily Perlich struck out six in the first game for NIC, and Kellsi Parson and Sawyer hit solo home runs in the second game.

FIRST GAME

North Idaho 430 03 - 10 11 0

C. Northwestern 000 00 - 0 2 0

Game called after 5 innings due to 8-run rule.

Emily Perlich and Shelby Carter; Nicole Durfey and Daniel Brooks, Lindsey Spendlow (3). W - Perlich (14-16). L - Durfey (2-18).

HITS: NIC - Bishop, Carter 2, Meyers 2, Tinoco 2, Sawyer, Parson, LaVaute, Schuler. CN - Duran, Swanson. 2B - Carter, Meyers, Parson, LaVaute. HR - Carter (16), Sawyer (5).

SECOND GAME

North Idaho 001 031 2 - 7 7 1

C. Northwestern 002 000 1 - 3 6 5

Hunter Allen, Laura Potts (3) and Shanika Sawyer; Whitney Titus and Lindsey Spendlow. W - Potts (3-3). L - Titus (2-23).

HITS: NIC - Parson 2, Bishop 2, Sawyer, Hatton, Carter. CN - Connary 2, Pace 2, Swenson, Cook. 2B - Parson, Connary 2. HR - Parson (2), Sawyer (6).