Breaking Sports: Lights trounce Orediggers

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 strong start, Alfie Miller came in and hit two quick 3-pointers, sending MSU-N on a 9-2 first-half run. Miller would go...