Cards battle top East team, come up short

COEUR d'ALENE — Rafael Lucio scored in the seventh minute for the Hawks in a Northwest Athletic Conference win over the Cardinals at Eisenwinter Field.

Kael McGowan, a freshman from Post Falls High, had 12 saves for NIC.

"We played really well as a group," NIC coach Brad Williams said. "Kael, he was man of the match and saved our bacon a bunch of times. Both him and Spencer (Lords) played really, really well. It was just a great team performance tonight."

NIC (2-5-1, 1-4-1 NWAC) hosts Blue Mountain of Pendleton, Ore., next Wednesday.

Columbia Basin, which leads the East Region, is 8-0, 5-0.

First half — 1, CBC, Rafael Lucio (unassisted), 7:20. Second half — none.

Shots on goal — CBC 13, NIC 1.

Saves — CBC, Dylan Villalobos, 1; NIC, Kael McGowan, 12.

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