• WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

EVERETT, Wash. — Freshman guard Payton Hagy hit a pair of free throws for North Idaho College to cut the deficit to 52-46 with 3:04 remaining, but Peninsula College of Port Angeles, Wash., the top seed from the North Region, limited the Cardinals without a field goal the rest of the way in a 56-48 win in the opening round of the Northwest Athletic Conference Championships on Saturday at Everett Community College.

“We fought hard and gave it all we had,” NIC women’s basketball coach Korina Baker said. “We just struggled clicking it on offensively in the first half and took too long to get going.”

Peninsula outrebounded NIC 50-27.

“They just outworked us a little bit under the basket,” said Baker, whose team allowed 18 offensive rebounds. “We just couldn’t get a body on them and they just outworked us on that end. We fought hard and gave it everything we had. We just came up a little short.”

Kaylee Banks, a freshman from Sandpoint High, finished with 11 points for NIC, which finishes 14-11 in Baker’s first full season as interim coach after taking over for the retiring Chris Carlson in 2020.

The championships were not held in 2021 due to the pandemic, and NIC played a handful of regular-season games.

Peninsula (23-3) faces Portland (18-11) in the Elite 8 today. Portland upset second-seeded Centralia 86-75 in an opening round game on Saturday.

NORTH IDAHO

Payton Hagy 2-8 1-2 7, Laney Smith 0-3 0-0 0, Maggie Graves 1-6 1-2 3, Layla Beam 2-5 0-0 5, Kolby Pimperton 3-9 2-3 9, Catherine Uschmann 1-2 0-0 3, Paige Beem 1-2 1-2 3, Kaylee Banks 3-13 3-4 11, Mary Mpoyo 1-1 1-3 3, Xuriyah Harry 2-2 0-0 4. Totals 16-51 9-16 48.

PENINSULA

Keeli-Jade Smith 8-23 3-6 20, Hope Glasser 3-10 1-4 7, Ariyanna Camacho-Villafuerte 0-5 0-0 0, Ituau Tuisaula 7-8 1-2 15, Madison Cooke 5-10 0-0 14, Tatiana Kamae 0-5 0-2 0, Amari Brown 0-2 0-0 0, Adam Kaganak 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 23-65 5-14 56.

North Idaho 11 12 12 13 — 48

Peninsula 17 14 13 12 — 56

3-point goals — NIC 7-25 (Hagy 2-7, Smith 0-3, Beam 1-3, Pimperton 1-4, Uschmann 1-2, Banks 2-6), Pen 5-22 (Smith 1-7, Camacho-Villafuerte 0-3, Cooke 4-7, Kamae 0-3, Brown 0-1, Kaganak 0-1). Rebounds — NIC 27 (Hagy, Pimperton 5), Pen 50 (Cooke 14). Assists — NIC 13 (Uschmann 3), Pen 11 (Camacho-Villafuerte 4). Team fouls — NIC 20, Pen 18. Fouled out — Harry.

• SOFTBALL

North Idaho 13-27

Blue Mountain 3-4

PENDLETON, Ore. — Sophomore Addison Ribordy drove in eight runs on the day, scoring five runs for the Cardinals in a sweep of the Timberwolves in Northwest Athletic Conference play.

Ribordy doubled twice and drove in four runs in the opener, then had three hits and four runs scored in the nightcap.

Post Falls freshman Kahlea Dumas finished the day with six hits, driving in five runs in the second game, including a three-run home run in the third inning.

NIC (9-5, 4-0 NWAC) travels to Walla Walla on Friday.

FIRST GAME

North Idaho 605 02 — 13 17 1

Blue Mountain 102 00 — 3 2 0

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

Abbey Brooks, Reiss McIntyre (5) and Kylee Gerstl; Jamisin Manzanares and Jaycee Jerome. W — Brooks. L — Manzanares.

HITS: NIC — Escalante 2, Dumas 3, Vanderwiel 3, Ribordy 2, Dobrev, Batoon 2, Imbler-Bremner 2, Todhunter, Gerstl. BMCC — Vibbert 2. 2B — Vanderwiel, Ribordy 2, Batoon, Vibbert. HR — Todhunter, Gertsl.

SECOND GAME

North Idaho 533 (12)4 — 27 24 0

Blue Mountain 102 01 — 4 7 3

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

Reiss McIntyre, Hattie Imbler-Bremner (3) and Lexy Orien; Jamisin Manzanares, Elizabeth Tuholski (4) and Ariana Knight. W — McIntyre. L — Manzaneres.

HITS: NIC — Escalante 3, Dumas 3, Bishop, Vanderwiel 3, Ribordy 3, Dobrev 3, Batoon, Belliston, Imbler-Bremner, Todhunter 3, Orien 2. BMCC — Beaumont, Robertson 2, Cordon, Knight, Tuholski, Page. 2B — Escalante 3, Ribordy, Batoon, Knight. 3B — Dumas, Belliston. HR — Dumas, Vanderwiel, Ribordy, Todhunter, Orien, Robertson.

• FRIDAY

North Idaho 8-12

Treasure Valley 1-6

ONTARIO, Ore. — Sophomore Addison Ribordy doubled and drove in two runs and freshman Kahlea Dumas hit a two-run home run and drove in four runs in the nightcap for North Idaho College in a sweep of the Treasure Valley Chukars in the Northwest Athletic Conference opener for both schools on Friday afternoon.

Sophomore Taryn Vanderwiel, freshman Megan Dobrev and freshman Hattie Imbler-Bremner had two RBIs each in the opener for NIC.

Ribordy, sophomore Aleyska Batoon and Imbler-Bremner also hit solo home runs in the second game for NIC (7-5).

Treasure Valley is 1-9.

FIRST GAME

North Idaho 301 030 1 — 8 10 1

Treasure Valley 000 100 0 — 1 6 2

Abbey Brooks and Kylee Gertsl; Sydney Shober, Amber Wickel (1) and Emma Williams. W — Brooks. L — Shober.

HITS: NIC — Escalante, Dumas 2, Vanderweil, Ribordy 2, Dobrev 2, Batoon, Imbler-Bremer. TVCC — Cherry, Lamoreaux 2, Shober, Wickel 2. 2B — Dumas, Vanderweil, Ribordy, Dobrev 2, Lamoreaux.

SECOND GAME

North Idaho 521 100 3 — 12 13 2

Treasure Valley 031 200 0 — 6 13 3

Hattie Imbler-Bremner, Megan Dobrev (4) and Lexy Orien; Amber Wickel, Sydney Shober (3) and Emma Williams. W — Imbler-Bremner. L — Wickel.

HITS: NIC — Escalante, Dumas 2, Vanderwiel 3, Ribordy, Batoon, Imlbler-Bremner 2, Fry 2, Orien. TVCC — Basaraba, Cherry 2, Lamoreaux 2, Wade, Shober, Wickel, Wixom 2, Williams 2, Todd. 2B — Escalante, Dumas, Vanderwiel 2. HR — Dumas, Ribordy, Batoon, Imbler-Bremner, Wixom.