MEN'S BASKETBALL

COEUR d’ALENE — With its season finale canceled by Blue Mountain Community College, the North Idaho College men’s basketball team got another game in — with an assist from some friends.

Griffin Effenberger, a sophomore from Lewis and Clark High in Spokane, had 34 points and eight assists off the bench for NIC, which beat a group of NIC alumni and friends 115-107 in the spring season finale at Rolly Williams Court on Friday.

Freshmen Julius Mims had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Brendan Johnson 22 points for NIC, which finishes 5-1.

Sam Dowd — who had been an assistant men’s basketball coach this spring at NIC — had 25 points and four rebounds for the Alumni. Trevon Allen, who played most recently at Idaho, added 25 points and four rebounds for the Alumni.

NIC ALUMNI

Sam Dowd 8-16 6-6 25, Trevon Allen 11-26 0-1 25, Emmit Taylor III 5-13 2-2 15, Mark Lussier 2-6 0-3 5, Que Johnson 6-18 8-9 24, Chris Sarbaugh 1-3 0-0 2, James Carlson 3-5 0-1 7, Ryan Erickson 1-4 0-0 2, Isaiah Sovereign 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 38-92 16-22 107.

NORTH IDAHO

Julius Mims 12-17 1-6 25, Brendan Johnson 7-15 4-5 22, Cooper DeWitt 3-7 0-0 6, DaMarius Brown 2-6 0-0 5, Akeyse Rice 2-7 0-2 8, Peter Erickson 4-7 0-0 9, Gavin Thompson 0-3 0-0 0, Griffin Effenberger 10-18 8-11 34, Aaron Von Bruck 3-9 0-0 6. Totals 45-89 13-24 115.

Halftime — NIC 54-53. 3-point goals — NICA (Dowd 3-4, Allen 3-10, Taylor 3-8, Lussier 1-4, Johnson 4-12, Carlson 1-1, Erickson 0-2), NIC 12-31 (Johnson 4-11, DeWitt 0-4, Brown 1-1, Erickson 1-2, Thompson 0-2, Effenberger 6-9, Von Bruck 0-2). Rebounds — NICA (Carlson 12), NIC 47 (Mims 14). Assists — NICA 18 (Johnson 6), NIC 29 (Effenberger 8). Team fouls — NICA 18, NIC 15. Fouled out — Taylor, Lussier.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

North Idaho 51

Blue Mountain 31

COEUR d’ALENE — Maggie Graves, a freshman from Eureka, Mont., had 16 points and nine rebounds for the Cardinals in a Northwest Athletic Conference win over the Timberwolves in their spring season finale at Rolly Williams Court.

Freshman Kolby Pimperton had 14 points and five rebounds and sophomore Rilee Mangun 11 points and six rebounds for NIC, which finishes 2-3, 2-3.

Blue Mountain is 0-10, 0-10.

BLUE MOUNTAIN

McKeeley Tonkin 1-14 1-2 4, Madi McKrola 1-11 0-0 2, Sydney Younger 2-8 4-4 8, Larissa Yazzie 3-7 0-0 8, Tyler Blood 1-6 0-0 2, Gabby Fritz 1-2 0-0 2, Brianna Kohr 1-4 0-0 2, Jessie Moss 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 11-56 5-6 31.

NORTH IDAHO

Maggie Graves 5-15 5-7 16, Rilee Mangun 5-16 0-0 11, Layla Beam 1-3 2-2 4, Kolby Pimperton 5-15 0-0 14, Xuriyah Harry 2-5 2-2 6, Emma Stensrud 0-7 0-0 0, Kennedy LaFountaine 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 18-63 9-11 51.

Blue Mountain 8 9 12 2 — 31

North Idaho 12 9 15 15 — 51

3-point goals — BMCC 4-19 (Tonkin 1-7, McKrola 0-1, Younger 0-1, Yazzie 2-4, Fritz 0-1, Kohr 0-2, Moss 1-3), NIC 6-27 (Graves 1-4, Mangun 1-8, Pimperton 4-8, Stensrud 0-6, LaFountaine 0-1). Rebounds — BMCC 26 (McKrola, Kohr 5), NIC 47 (Beam, Harry 10). Assists — BMCC 8 (Younger 3), NIC 9 (Graves, Pimperton 2). Team fouls — BMCC 15, NIC 9. Fouled out — none.

SOFTBALL

North Idaho 13-10

Yakima Valley 6-2

YAKIMA, Wash. — Freshman Kasey Davis of Vacaville, Calif., hit for the cycle in the first game for the Cardinals in a sweep of the Yaks in Northwest Athletic Conference play on Thursday.

Davis drove in four runs and scored two runs and freshman Hope Shimatsu of Boise High had two hits and three runs scored in the opener for NIC.

In the second game, freshman shortstop Audrey Walker of Redmond, Wash., hit a two-run home run in the third inning, and finished with three RBIs for NIC (21-6, 20-4 NWAC).

The teams will meet again to conclude the spring season at Memorial Field on Sunday in a doubleheader at 2 p.m.

FIRST GAME

North Idaho 340 121 2 — 13 18 2

Yakima Valley 303 000 0 — 6 11 4

Jadyn Raley-Jones, Amanda Curry (6) and Hope Shimatsu; Emmaleena Wood and Alexis Lokeni. W — Raley-Jones. L — Wood.

HITS: NIC — Escalante 2, G. Shimatsu 2, Vanderwiel 3, Davis 4, Ribordy, Hull, Walker, Batoon 2, H. Shimatsu 2. YVC — Base, Uemura, Lokeni 2, Hanosky, Koler, Walker 2, McAtee, Barnes, Jay. 2B — Davis, Ribordy, Lokeni, Walker, McAtee. 3B — Davis, Batoon. HR — Davis.

SECOND GAME

North Idaho 223 21 — 10 12 1

Yakima Valley 000 02 — 2 9 2

Amanda Curry and Hope Shimatsu; Megan Isayev and Karly Hanosky. W — Curry. L — Isayev.

HITS: NIC — Escalante 3, G. Shimatsu, Vanderwiel 2, Ribordy, Hull, Walker, Nash 3. YVC — Base, Oswald 2, Lokeni 2, Koler, Walker, McAtee 2. 2B — Hull, Lokeni, McAtee. 3B — Nash. HR — Walker.