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It's truly been an interesting season for the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team. And by no means has it been easy. In fact, MSU-N's road to where it is now has been down right difficult. The Skylights started the year having to re-load after the loss of all-everything guard Laramie Schwenke, while they also lost two regular season non-conference games early because a team decided they didn't want to drive all the way to Montana. In fact, Northern's...
For the better part of the last four seasons, the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team has had the Lewis-Clark State Warriors' number. But in just seven days, the warriors have flipped the script. Saturday night in Lewiston, Idaho, the No. 5 Warriors turned away the No. 12 Lights 56-45 in a pivotal Frontier Conference clash. LC State's win came just seven days after the Warriors knocked off the Lights in Havre, and it broke a tie for first place in the...
Northern's Taylor Cummings (middle) looks to make a move during Tuesday night's Frontier women's playoff game in Havre. The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team used a 27-point, 16-rebound performance from junior Laci Keller to blow by the Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears 76-57 in the first round of the Frontier Conference semifinals Tuesday night in Havre. The win pushed Northern (17-12) into Friday night's semifinals at Carroll College. Keller had career high's in both points and rebounds, while...
GREAT FALLS — It's never easy to rebound from a loss like the one the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team suffered last Saturday night in Havre. And for a moment Thursday night, it looked like the Skylights weren't going to. But an 18-1 first-half run, two huge 3-pointers and some clutch free-throw shooting down the stretch will usually cure what ails a team. And that's exactly what the Skylights did in an impressive 65-62 win over the University of G...
GREAT FALLS — Alfie Miller, as well as much of the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team wasn't there when the University of Great Falls banked in a 3-pointer to beat the nationally-ranked Lights at the buzzer last February in Great Falls. But Miller, and a new-look Lights' squad sure got some redemption on Thursday night. Northern made 16 3-pointers, including six by Miller as the No. 13 Lights toppled the Argos 62-49 Thursday night at the McLaughlin C...
The Frontier Conference is nearing the halfway point in the season. This weekend marks the end of the first half of league games, and it's been business as usual in the league so far. With only a month to go in the season, there have been some surprises, and some not-so-surprising results thus far. On the women's side, Westminster is the only unbeaten team in league play, and that's no surprise. The Griffins have really only had one close game since league play started and...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team started the weekend off by taking care of business exactly the way the Lights planned too. Unfortunately for the Lights, those plans got nixed one night later. The No. 12 Lights opened a huge Frontier Conference home stand by blasting Montana Tech 82-68 Friday night at the Armory Gymnasium. But Saturday night, things came undone as the No. 3 Lewis-Clark State Warriors handled the Lights 79-65 in a nationally-ranked...
Northern's Kylee Denham looks to pass during Friday night's Frontier Conference win over Montana Tech at the Armory Gymnasium. Already riding a bitter two-ganme losing streak, things looked bleak 20 minutes into the MSU-Northern Skylights' home game with Montana Tech Friday night at the Armory Gymnasium. But Northern turned a 22-15 halftime deficit into a commanding 54-41 win over the Orediggers, in a second half that very well could turn the Skylights around. MSU-N shot just...
With a huge, nationally-ranked showdown with Lewis-Clark State looming on Saturday night, the MSU-Northern men's basketball team couldn't afford to overlook the Montana Tech Orediggers. And the Lights didn't. No. 12 Northern shook off a sluggish start and wound up beating the upstart Diggers' 82-68 Friday night at the Armory Gymnasium. The win over Tech was a bounce-back victory for Northern, after falling by 32 points six days ago at Westminster. And though Tech got off to s...
The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team got some revenge on Thursday night in Powell, Wyo., even after forfeiting a pair of weight classes. The No. 4 Lights avenged an early-season home loss to Northwest College by beating the Trappers 27-19 Thursday night. Northern overcame a long trip just a few hours after Wednesday night's dominating win over Western Wyoming in Havre. The Lights gave up forfeits at 141 and 275 pounds, but got a huge win from fifth-ranked...
The Westminster Griffins are ranked fourth in the NAIA for good reason. And through 13 wins in the Frontier Conference, their average margin of victory has been a staggering 19 points. In fact, in no league game this season has Westminster even had to win by less than 10 points. Montana State University-Northern's Nikki Tresch dribbles around a Westminster defender during Saturday night's Frontier women's game in Havre. The powerful Griffins beat the Skylights 70-53. So it...
Senior night is a night filled with emotion. It's only natural when you're honoring a player who has been so special, such as Montana State University-Northern Lights' senior Devin Jackson has been to the Northern program over the last four years. But when you add to that, a visiting team like the 18th-ranked Westminster Griffins, a devastating loss just 36 hours earlier and a playoff-like atmosphere, you get one intense basketball game. Montana State University-Northern's...
The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team is ranked sixth in the NAIA right now. But that poll came out before the Lights dismantled the Great Falls Argos back on Feb.6. In reality, Northern is wrestling like the best team in the country at the moment. And the Lights will get a chance to prove that when they return to Great Falls for Western Regional Saturday at McLaughlin Center. The format for qualifying for the NAIA national tournament is new this year, with auto...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team has been here before. Four games left in the regular season, fighting for a regular season Frontier Conference championship, and getting ready to battle two bitter rivals. For the Lights' program, which has won the last two league titles, it's business as usual. Taking care of business is exactly what the Lights will try and do in their final regular season home stand, which starts tonight with a visit from the...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team must be getting used to the state of Missouri by now. After all, the Lights are making their third straight to Kansas City for the NAIA national tournament, and their fourth jaunt there in the last five years. And on Wednesday night at the Municipal Auditorium, the Lights will square off against a team from Missouri in the first round of the big dance for the second straight year. Last March, the Lights fell to...
In the world of college athletics you can normally pick your team, but you can't always pick your teammates. Montana State University-Northern's Roshawn West, Alfie Miller, and Jesse Vaughan find themselves in a unique and interesting situation, as first fate, then a conscious decision brought the three together nearly 765 miles away from where they first began to play together at Shoreline Community College just outside of Seattle. Montana State University-Northern's Roshawn West, left, Jesse Vaughan, middle and Alfie...
In the tightly-packed Frontier Conference men's basketball race, one road win is huge. But when you can sweep on the road, it's almost like winning three games instead of two. And that's exactly what the No. 18 Montana State University-Northern Lights did this weekend. The Lights beat Montana Tech 59-48 Friday night in Butte, than got past a very tough Carroll College squad, 68-61 Saturday night in Helena. Pearson Northern's first road sweep of the season put them alone in...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team saw its four-game winning streak grind to a halt at the hands of the nationally-ranked Carroll College Fighting Saints Saturday night in Helena. The Skylights lost to the Saints 56-44, falling to 7-5 in the Frontier Conference. Northern only trailed Carroll 23-22 at halftime, but the Saints went on a 13-3 run. MSU-N chopped the lead down to one point again late in the half, but Carroll finished strong, making it a season sweep of the Skylights. The Skylights...
Each year, the Montana State University-Northern Lights and Great Falls Argos kick off a the biggest week of wrestling in Montana with their annual rematch dual against each other. And for a time, the Argos dominated the rivalry. But Northern, under fourth-year head coach Tyson Thivierge, and a young and hungry group of wrestlers has changed the story. On Wednesday night at UGF's McLaughlin Center in Great Falls, the fourth-ranked Lights dominated the third-ranked Argos...
For the third straight year, and the fourth in the last five, the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team is headed to Kansas City, and the NAIA national men's basketball tournament. The field was announced Wednesday afternoon, though the Lights (23-9) won't know their first-round opponent until 6 p.m. Wednesday night when the brackets are announced on NAIA.org. The Frontier Conference got a historic four bids to the NAIA tourney, with UM-Western, Lewis-Clark State and the Lights joining Frontier champion...
Mike LaValley and the MSU-Northern basketball team is making its third straight trip to the NAIA national tournament. For the second straight year, the Montana State University-Northern Lights will face a team from Missouri in the opening round of the NAIA national tournament. On Wednesday night, the No. 24 Lights (23-9) found out they will face No. 9 Evangel of Missouri (24-6) in the first round of the national tournament. The game is set for 9:30 p.m. M.S.T. next Wednesday night in Kansas City. The Crusaders are part of...
Before heading to the 2013 NAIA national wrestling tournament, former Havre Blue Pony and current Great Falls senior Myles Mazurkiewicz talked about not getting ahead of himself. The goal all season, a senior season in which Mazurkiewicz lost just three times, was to win a 141-pound NAIA national championship. But the goal entering last Friday-Saturday's national tournament was to take it one match at a time. And for three rounds in Des Moines, Iowa it worked. Mazurkiewicz...
HELENA - The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team gave No. 24 Carroll College all it could handle, for a half. However, the Saints ripped off a 24-4 run in the second half, eventually defeating the Skylights 73-52 in the Frontier Conference semifinals Friday night in Helena. The win pushed Carroll into Monday night's championship game, while it brough Northern's season to an end with a 17-13 overall record. The Skylights trailed the Saints just 28-24 at the break, but Carroll caught fire early in the...
Day one of the 2013 NAIA national wrestling tournament in Des Moines, Iowa was a productive one for the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team. After two full sessions and four rounds of wrestling, the Lights scored 69.5 points, good enough to sleep on third place. Defending champion Grand View is in first with 83 points, Southern Oregon is in second with 83 and Great Falls is in fifth with 51.5. MSU-N also pushed five of its nine wrestlers into Saturday morning's semifinal round. As expected, top-ranked Ethan...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team busted out of a shooting slump in a big way in the first round of the Frontier Conference playoffs. The victim was the Great Falls Argos, who watched the Lights drop in 12 3-pointers and blast them by 22 points Wednesday night in Havre. Now, Northern (23-8) will try and do the same thing to UM-Western in the semifinals, only the Lights will have to do it on the Bulldogs' home floor. Saturday night at 7 p.m., the No....
