Idaho colleges roundup: Vandal junior finishes fifth at NCAA indoor track and field championships

Published: March 10, 2013 

Hannah Kiser earned first-team All-American honors with her result in the women's 3,000 meters at the NCAA indoor championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Kiser finished in 9 minutes, 7.76 seconds. Dartmouth junior Abbey D'Agostino won the race in 9:01.08. Oregon won its fourth straight women's team title with 56 points, and Arkansas took its 20th indoor men's title with 74.

NCAA SKIING: Rose Kemp (Boise) and Makayla Cappel (Ketchum) earned All-American honors with top-10 finishes in the women's 15-kilometer skate mass start event at the NCAA championships in Middlebury, Vt. Kemp, a University of Utah senior, finished ninth, with Cappel (University of Denver) 10th. Sloan Storey (Ketchum/Utah) was 22nd. Boise's Will Wicherski (Williams College) was 21st in the men's 20k skate mass start.

COLLEGE OF IDAHO SKIING: The Coyote women's alpine ski team finished third in the double-dual slalom at the USCSA National Championships on Dollar Mountain in Sun Valley. McKinley Carbone was 12th in the women's snowboard giant slalom, putting her in position for a possible combined snowboarding national championship.

IDAHO WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Ashley Ward hit a jumper with 1.2 seconds left to give host Seattle a 55-53 victory over the Vandals. Stacey Barr scored 17 points for Idaho (14-15, 11-7 WAC), which carries the No. 3 seed into the conference tournament.

IDAHO STATE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: Jessa Jeppesen and Abyee Maracigan had 13 points apiece as the Bengals beat Portland State 61-54 in Portland. The Bengals (18-11, 13-7 Big Sky) are the No. 4 seed for the conference tournament this week in Missoula, Mont.

NORTHWEST NAZARENE BASEBALL: The Crusaders (8-13, 2-6 GNAC) were swept by reigning league champion Western Oregon 6-2, 3-1 in a doubleheader in Nampa.

BOISE STATE SOFTBALL: The Broncos (9-13) were swept 14-4 and 10-2 by No. 16 Arizona in nonconference play in Tucson, Ariz. The Wildcats (18-5) won both games in five innings. BSU will open its new home field at Dona Larsen Park for the SpringHill Suites Invitational, which starts Friday.

C OF I SOFTBALL: The Coyotes (13-11, 1-3 CCC) split with Southern Oregon in a Cascade Conference doubleheader in Caldwell. Paige Gabiola had three RBIs in a 10-7 Game 1 victory for the C of I, then SOU took the second 6-3.

C OF I BASEBALL: The Coyotes (11-9, 6-2 CCC) again split with Corban (13-7, 4-4) in Cascade Conference play in Caldwell. Parker Vernon threw a seven-hitter to give the C of I a 6-4 Game 1 win, then the Warriors won Game 2 9-8.

BOISE STATE WOMEN'S TENNIS: The Broncos (7-3) won their Mountain West opener 6-1 over New Mexico at the Appleton Tennis Center. BSU won the doubles point and lost only the No. 1 singles match.

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