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Northern senior A'Jha Edwards shoots over a Montana Tech defender during Friday night's Frontier Conference women's game at the Armory Gymnasium.
The start to the season can't have gone any better for the No. 15 Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team. And Friday night, inside the Armory Gymnasium, the start to Frontier Conference play was near perfect. In their conference opener, the Skylights dismantled Montana Tech 78-37, improving to 1-0 in league play, and setting up a huge showdown with No. 12 Lewis-Clark State Saturday night.
Northern used a hot start, a smothering defense and a 15-1 run in the first half to blow by the talented Orediggers. The Skylights led 36-18 at half, and for the game, held Tech to just 28 percent shooting.
But the big story was senior A'Jha Edwards. Tech had no answer for the 6-5 Edwards, as she scored a season-high 27 points, while grabbing 16 rebounds. Edwards was 11-12 from the field and 5-8 from the free-throw-line. Natalee Faupel added 10 points in the victory.
Now, the 16-1 Skylights will look to grab a hold of the Frontier lead when they host the Warriors Saturday at 6 p.m.
Meanwhile, things didn't go as well for the Northern men. Montana Tech won inside the Armory Gymnasium for the first time in 14 years, claiming a 76-67 win Friday night.
Tech jumped out to an early lead, but the Lights scrapped and clawed and finished the half on a 10-1 run, to lead 37-32 at the break. From there however, it was all Tech. The Orediggers scored the first nine points of the second half, and held Northern without a field goal for the first nine minutes of the stanza. The Lights, who shot just 24 percent from the floor, never recovered, though MSU-N did have two chances to shave the Tech lead down to five points with just under three minutes to play.
MSU-N, which came into the game shooting 46 percent from three, managed to make just 6-of-15 shots from beyond the arc. Nick Blount paced the Lights with 17 points, while Warren Edmonson added 13. Antonio Snow poured in a game-high 19 points and Adam Greger added 18 for the Orediggers.
The loss dropped MSU-N to 0-1 in league play and 11-6 overall heading into Saturday night's game with No. 21 Lewis-Clark State.
For complete coverage, see Monday's Havre Daily News.
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