COEUR d'ALENE - Shooting 31 percent from the field isn't going to win games in the Scenic West Athletic Conference.

But since both teams did just that on Saturday afternoon, someone had to come out victorious.

Bryanna Adams hit a baseline jumper with 1:23 remaining that proved to be the difference as the Utah State-Eastern Golden Eagles beat the 21st-ranked North Idaho College Cardinals 63-61 at Rolly Williams Court.

"We just really struggled tonight," NIC coach Chris Carlson said. "They're a different team. They press a lot and platoon substitute and hit some shots from the outside. It's a different style than anything you'll see in the league. Shooting 31 percent isn't going to do it."

Utah State-Eastern defeated NIC 88-80 in the conference opener for both schools on Dec. 12 in Price, Utah.

With 6.6 seconds remaining, NIC (17-5, 3-4 SWAC) had a chance to tie the game, but turned the ball over and was unable to foul before the clock ran out.

"We shot 26 percent down there (in December)," Carlson said. "We had our chances tonight and got the ball in the hands of the player we want to have the ball at the end of the game, and it just didn't happen."

NIC, which lost three of its final four games on a five-game homestand, travels to Salt Lake on Thursday.

"We've got some growing to do on our team," Carlson said. "These are growing pains right here. We're going to find the answer, but we've got some players doing some good things and others doing good things most of the time. We just need to keep working hard. All of our losses we've been in but one, and we need to keep it right there."

Renae Mokrzycki had 12 points, eight rebounds, three blocked shots and four steals for NIC. Kara Staggs had a game-high 16 points for NIC.

"We know what we're capable of, but we haven't been able to show what we can bring to the table," Mokrzycki said. "Hopefully after the next two training days we can actually show we can go out and beat some of these better teams like Salt Lake and Southern Idaho."

Caroline Ficher scored 12 points for Utah State-Eastern (10-11, 4-3), which shot 21 of 68 from the field.

USU-Eastern won at NIC for the first time since the 2003-04 season.

"We're really an up-tempo team and like to run the Grinnell offense," Utah State-Eastern coach Dave Paur said. "But it didn't look like it early on. At CSI, we missed our first 15 shots and got down 24-5, and that was the final difference in the game. It's like Russian roulette, but we played a lot more aggressive than we have in our last couple of games. I thought they missed some shots, and I'm sitting there thinking, we've got a chance. NIC is going to be a very good team."

UTAH STATE-EASTERN

Maddie Murphy 3-7 0-0 9, Bryanna Adams 2-13 0-0 5, Shantaya Strebel 3-6 1-2 9, Jamie Smith 0-3 3-4 3, Rachel Scoggins 0-1 0-0 0, Caroline Ficher 3-10 4-4 12, Morganne Campbell 0-4 0-2 0, Isabela Costa 0-3 1-2 1, Lerissa Quntana 4-9 2-4 10, Abby Call 1-2 0-0 2, Leijla Hadzialjagie 3-7 2-4 8, Shayla Hancock 2-3 0-0 4, Faith Garrish 0-0 0-0. Totals 21-68 13-20 63.

NORTH IDAHO

Georgia Stirton 2-6 10-12 14, Katie King 0-1 0-0 0, Jansen Butler 1-12 0-0 3, Bailey Schroeder 0-2 2-4 2, Kara Staggs 5-13 2-2 16, Sabrina Earle 0-1 0-0 0, Renae Mokrzycki 5-12 1-2 12, Caitlyn Behymer 1-6 2-2 4, Panisessi Taimani 5-8 0-0 10. Totals 19-61 17-22 61.

Halftime - US-E 8-30 (Murphy 3-6, Adams 1-8, Strebel 2-5, Scoggins 0-3, Ficher 2-5, Campbell 0-2, Call 0-1), NIC 6-24 (Butler 1-8, Schroeder 0-2, Staggs 4-11, Mokrzycki 1-3). Rebounds - US-E 46 (Hadzialijagie 8), NIC 49 (Mokrzycki 8). Assists - US-E 8 (Murphy, Strebel, Hadzialijagie 2), NIC 12 (Butler 6). Team fouls - US-E 21, NIC 17. Fouled out - Costa, Staggs. Technical foul - Murphy.