• VOLLEYBALL

CASPER, Wyo. — In its final NJCAA tournament before dropping to the Northwest Athletic Conference in the 2016-17 season, the North Idaho College volleyball team fell to the 13th-seeded Hutchinson (Kan.) Blue Dragons 25-17, 23-25, 25-19, 14-25, 15-11 in the match for ninth and 10th places on Saturday at the Casper Events Center.

Freshman Brittany Gay of Lake City High had 48 assists and 14 digs for NIC, which finishes 22-15 in coach Kelsey Stanley’s second year. Penny Gwynn had 14 kills and nine digs and sophomore Brenna Meehan had 13 kills for NIC.

Jai Chapaman had 18 kills for Hutchinson (34-9).

In the championship match, Southern Idaho (35-3) rallied from down two sets to one to beat Western Nebraska (42-5) 25-22, 23-25, 24-26, 25-22, 15-9 for the school’s 11th national title.

NJCAA TOURNAMENT

at Casper Events Center

Saturday’s matches

Ninth-10th place

No. 13 Hutchinson d. No. 10 North Idaho 25-17, 23-25, 25-19, 14-25, 15-11

Seventh-eighth place

No. 9 Blinn d. No. 7 Missouri State-West Plains 25-20, 14-25, 25-17, 25-23

Fifth-sixth place

No. 4 Iowa Western d. No. 6 Polk State 25-16, 25-18, 25-13

Third-fourth place

No. 5 Hillsborough d. No. 3 Northwest 23-25, 25-13, 25-17, 25-16

Championship match

Southern Idaho d. Western Nebraska 25-22, 23-25, 24-26, 25-22, 15-9

• BASKETBALL

North Idaho 80

Green River 52

AUBURN, Wash. — Braian Angola-Rodas had 27 points and, six rebounds and five assists to lead the Cardinals past the Gators in a nonconference game.

Brayon (BJ) Blake scored 16 points and former Lake City High standout Kyle Guice had 16 points and eight rebounds for NIC (6-0), which travels to Columbia Basin of Pasco, Wash., on Tuesday at 8 p.m.

“Those guys are rally good and Kyle played really well tonight,” said NIC coach Corey Symons, whose team went 10 of 23 from the free throw line. “We need to be able to hit free throws. They’re playing well and those are more of a confidence thing. The guys are playing well together. It should be a fun year.”

Marcus Harris, who played at NIC as a freshman, had 13 points and three rebounds for Green River (1-1).

NORTH IDAHO

Sam Dowd 2-5 1-3 6, Lucas Antunez 1-4 0-0 2, Haywood Irwin 0-0 0-0 0, Trey Burch-Manning 0-4 2-4 2, Brayon (BJ) Blake 8-12 0-0 16, Braian Angola-Rodas 11-14 3-9 27, Kaleb Warner 2-7 0-2 5, Kyle Guice 5-7 4-4 16, Zaequan Satterhwaite 0-0 0-1 0, Scott Turner 3-4 0-0 6. Totals 32-57 10-23 80.

GREEN RIVER

Noah Pratt 0-0 0-0 0, Anthony Harper 1-3 0-0 2, Damon Cikanek 2-8 2-3 7, Marcus Harris 4-8 1-2 13, Marquis Blackwell 1-5 1-2 3, Jaqua Morrow 3-8 2-2 8, Cameron O’Dell 2-2 0-0 5, Tory Causey 2-9 3-3 7, Jaron Heck 0-0 0-0 0, Dedrian Miller 1-2 1-2 3, Lamar McDougald 1-3 1-2 4. Totals 17-48 11-16 52.

Halftime — NIC 40-29. 3-point goals — NIC 6-19 (Dowd 1-1, Antunez 0-3, Burch-Manning 0-2, Blake 0-1, Angola-Rodas 2-4, Warner 1-4, Guice 2-3, Turner 0-1), GR 7-23 (Cikanek 21-4, Harris 4-8, Blackwell 0-2, Morrow 0-3, O’Dell 1-1, Causey 0-4, McDougald 1-1). Rebounds — NIC 38 (Guice 8), GR 27 (Morrow 7). Assists — NIC 16 (Angola-Rodas 5), GR 9 (Cikanek 4). Team fouls — NIC 16, GR 22. Fouled out — O’Dell.

• WRESTLING

Cardinals drop two in at home duals

COEUR d’ALENE — The Cardinals got Deondre Wilson back from a torn ACL, but lost a pair of duals to Simon Fraser and Highline at Christianson Gym in the Cardinal Duals.

“Give both Highline and Simon Fraser credit, they wrestled hard and we did not,” NIC coach Pat Whitcomb said. “We need to get over the illness and injury bug, but we’ll get another shot at it. It’s no fun to go through though. We need to learn from it and move on. We just need to be better, period.”

NIC hosts the Spokane Open at the Spokane Convention Center today at 9 a.m.

SIMON FRASER 29, NORTH IDAHO 18

125 — Oscar Bulaquil, SF, p. Trey Long, 1:39. 133 — Cruz Velasquez, SF, md. Garrett White, 10-0. 141 — Deondre Wilson, NIC, by forfeit. 149 — Jaren Sumauang, NIC, by forfeit. 157 — Tanner Spray, d. Alex Aguilar, 4-3. 165 — Tyler McLean, SF, p. Tim Parten, 6:07. 174 — Dajour Reece, NIC, d. Reid Watkins, 9-7. 184 — Morgan Smith, SF, tf. Chase Campbell, 16-0. 197 — Josh Kim, SF, tf. Killian Estes, 20-5. 285 — Damian Trujillo, NIC, d. Clarian Bell, 6-2.

HIGHLINE 26, NORTH IDAHO 21

125 — Andres Tereza, High, tf. Trey Long, 18-3. 133 — Isaac Aguilar, NIC, p. Jay-Ar Small, :51. 141 — Deondre Wilson, NIC, d. Andrew Ramirez, 6:24. 149 — Antonio Nieves-Dees, High, d. Jaren Sumauang, 12-11. 157 — Josh Smith, High, d. Alex Aguilar, 6-1. 165 — Dajour Reece, NIC, d. Angel Aguilar, 3:41. 174 — Taylor Johnson, High, d. Khali Crowl, 5:57. 184 — Hunter Taylor, High, md. Chase Campbell, 11-2. 197 — Elias Mason, High, tf. Killian Estes, 17-1. 285 — Damian Trujillo, NIC, d. Jacob Apodaca, 6-1.