GOLF

The Lewiston Golf and Country Club will play host to The Warrior Fall Invitational on Monday and Tuesday in the final tournament of the fall for LC State Golf. The tournament field includes Oregon Tech, College of Idaho, Walla Walla (Wash.), Simpson (Calif.), Providence (Mont.) and the Spokane Colleges. Teams will tee off at 9 a.m. each day with 18 holes each day.

The Warrior men will have two teams on the course with Lucas Ortega, Luke West, Sondre Andresen, Andrea Artusini and Adam Lovatt as the A team and Aaron Brown, Kye Krall, Jaxon Moon and Casey Johansen as the B team. Dallis Shockey, Taylor Mire, Giulia Belfontali, Jane Barry and Isabella Barquet will represent the LC State women with Natalia Gomez, Chase Caruso and Myah Parsons playing as individuals. 

Both LC State teams won last year’s home tournament, The Warrior Spring Classic. Ortega finished second in the men’s tournament, behind LC State alum Alex Navarro, after an impressive round of 65 to start the week. Andresen tied for third overall while West, Moon and Krall all placed in the top 20. On the women’s side, Belfontali won the women’s individual title last season with Barquet, Caruso, Shockey, Gomez and Barry all in the top 15. 

VOLLEYBALL

No. 11 LC State Volleyball (14-3, 11-3) swept the weekend at home with 3-0 victories over No. 18 Northwest (Wash.) and The Evergreen State College (Wash.) and remains tied with No. 8 Corban (Ore.) for second in the Cascade Conference standings. The Warriors host (RV) Walla Walla (Wash.) (10-7, 8-6) on Tuesday before a trip to Portland on Thursday to take on Warner Pacific (Ore.) (0-15, 0-14). 

The Clearwater River Casino & Lodge is the sponsor of Tuesday’s match.

LC State is 14-1 against the Wolves since 2010 and defeated the NAIA’s most improved team 3-1 earlier this season in College Place. The Warriors put up 17 blocks as a team in the contest with 10 by Karissa Lindner, six by Juliauna Forgach Aguilar and five by Abby Beaton. Taylor Boyce and Forgach Aguilar each had 12 kills in the match. 

Walla Walla’s Sahara Browning leads the conference in kills per set (4.45) with two more kills than Forgach Aguilar while Yaimaris Garcia leads in service aces per set (0.95). She is fifth in assists per set (7.16). The Wolves rank third in the Cascade in points per set (16.9), kills per set (13.29) and digs per set (15.47).

The Warriors have not dropped a set to WPU since 2022 including a sweep of the Knights at home in September. LC State hit .314 and dealt 13 aces including five by Ashlyn Watt and four from Ella Stosich. 

Teagan Scott leads the CCC in assists per set (8.74) and Lindner is second in blocks per set (1.34). Forgach Aguilar is second in the conference and sixth in the NAIA in kills per set (4.42) and Boyce is fourth in the CCC (3.44). Stosich ranks third in the Cascade in digs per set (4.60). As a team LC State leads the conference in digs per set (15.84) and is fourth in points per set (16.4), kills per set (12.53) and blocks per set (2.18).

CROSS COUNTRY

LC State will be in action at two different meets this week to close out the regular season with a partial squad at the Sasquatch Invite on Friday and both teams at the Great Lakes Challenge on Saturday. 

The Warrior men will send a handful of runners to the Spokane Colleges’ Sasquatch Invite in Spokane on Friday to give runners a chance at one more race this season. The rest of the program will compete against some of the top teams in the NAIA in Grand Rapids, Mich., at a meet hosted by Aquinas (Mich.). 

The No. 22 Warrior women and (RV) men will use the race as a final tune-up ahead of the Cascade Conference Championships, presented by U.S. Bank, on Nov. 7 in Salem, Ore. Saturday’s race will give the Warriors a chance to see what the NAIA field may look like and help build the case for each team’s bid to the national meet. 

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

LC State Women’s Basketball opens the 2025-26 season this week with a pair of games against Dickinson State (N.D.) in the P1FCU Activity Center. The Warriors, picked to win the Cascade Conference in the CCC preseason poll, host the season opener on Friday at 5:30 p.m. before a rematch on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

The LC State Association of Student-Athletes will host its annual Trunk-or-Treat event in the parking lot of the P1FCU Activity Center on Friday from 4:30-6:30 p.m. and fans are encouraged to attend the women’s basketball game after the family-friendly trick-or-treat event. Warrior teams and campus groups will have free tickets for the game to hand out at Trunk-or-Treat.

A full season preview will be available later this week.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

The 2025-26 LC State Men’s Basketball season kicks off on Friday when the Warriors travel to Arizona to take on one of the NAIA’s best in Arizona Christian. The two teams will open their seasons in Surprise, Ariz., with tipoff set for 6 p.m.

A full season preview will be available later this week.