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It was a difficult night all the way around for the Havre High girls basketball team. On Thursday night at the CMR Fieldhouse in Great Falls, the Blue Ponies could never get on track offensively, while the CMR Rustlers made it look easy in a 56-18 nonconference win. HHS surrendered 20 points to CMR's Jordan Bagley, and the Ponies could never recover from scoring just six points in the first 16 minutes of the game. The Rustlers opened the game by outscoring HHS 14-4 in the first quarter. The lead grew to 27-6 at intermission...
The Montana State University- Northern men's basketball team is now ranked. The Lights finished last season ranked among the NAIA's Top 25, but it took until this week for the Lights to climb back into the coaches poll. Northern jumped all the way up to No. 19 this week after sweeping Montana Tech and UM-Western over the weekend in Havre. Western was ranked No. 17 last week but dropped to No. 25 after losing to the Lights 69-59 on Saturday night. Three Frontier Conference teams are in the men's Top 25. Westminster College,...
This week in Hi-Line girls high school basketball saw some excitement, and disappointment. Friday and Saturday's snowstorm across the state brought plenty of cancellations, but there was hoops still played. On Thursday night, the in a new Class B rivalry game, the upstart Harlem Wildcats downed the Rocky Morning Stars 64-46 in Harlem. The Wildcats broke open a 27-24 game in the third quarter via a 16-8 run. Harlem carried that momentum into the fourth quarter and went on to win going away. Hypatia Getten scored a game-high...
Coming into this weekend's Frontier Conference games at home, the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team was giving up a league-best 59 points per game on defense. And to no one's surprise, the Lights held to true to form, holding both Montana Tech and No. 17 UM-Western under 60 points in an impressive conference sweep that vaulted Northern into a first-place tie in the Frontier standings. "(I'm) very proud of what we accomplished this weekend," MSU-N head coach Shawn Huse said. "We were up against two very...
The Montana State University- Northern women's basketball team is coming off one impressive blowout victory. But with one of the Frontier Conference's most dangerous teams coming to Havre tonight and an old rival in town on Saturday, last week's win over UGF might as well have been last year. Tonight, the Skylights (1-2, 10-9) face the most improved team in the Frontier in Montana Tech, and then they host UM-Western on Saturday night, in what amounts to a pair of critical league games for all three teams. "This is a big...
To say the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team will be happy to be on its own maroon and gold mat tonight might be an understatement. The No. 13 Lights haven't wrestled at home since the first week of December, and not only have they been on the road, but they have been riddled with injuries which have left them depleted. Still, the season marches on and tonight at 7, the Lights will take to the mat against the Northwest College Trappers at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Trappers are one of the premier powers...
After an 0-2 start to the Frontier Conference season, the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team needed a win. Not only did the Skylights need a victory to erase last weekend's difficult road trip, but they needed to stay within striking distance in the early conference race. Northern accomplished those missions and then some on Saturday night by crushing the University of Great Falls Argos 63-36 at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. "I was very pleased with how we played for 30 minutes tonight," MSU-N head...
The Frontier Conference season is now underway, and the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams are ready for a good old fashioned rivalry. On Saturday night, the Lights and Skylights will play host to the University of Great Falls in the conference home-openers for MSU-N. The Skylights play at 6 p.m. and the Lights take the floor at 8. For the Northern women, Saturday's battle with UGF will be about getting back in the win column. The Skylights (0-2, 9-9) dropped their conference openers at...
The race is on. It's now just one month from postseason basketball play, and things are going to get interesting in girls hoops along the Hi-Line. This past week started with the Rocky Boy Morning Stars picking up a nonconference win over Box Elder on Thursday night in Box Elder. The Morning Stars edged the Bears 47-36 behind solid defense a strong second half. Falene Russette scored 13 points and Jordan Big Knife had 100 11 for Rocky Boy. In the loss, Box Elder got 12 points from Aricka Wolfcheif. Thursday night also saw...
For the Montana State University- Northern men's and women's basketball teams, October began a season of two teams searching for a new identity. Now, the Lights and Skylights start a new journey as Frontier Conference play begins tonight in Salt Lake City. The MSU-N women kick off the Frontier schedule tonight at 5:30 against the No. 20 Westminster College Griffins. Westminster (11-4) is the defending Frontier regular season champion having gone a perfect 14-0 in league play a year ago. Included in that run was two wins over...