Lights stopped short in Idaho

The Montana State University-Northern Lights thought they were about to complete a comeback for the ages. And win their first Frontier Conference football game of the 2014 season in the process.

But College of Idaho’s Josh Lopez had other ideas. On the final play of Saturday’s first-ever meeting between the Lights and Yotes, Lopez stopped MSU-N’s Nick Luoma one yard short of the goal line as he tried to score the game-winning touchdown for the Lights. The defensive stand lifted the Yotes to a 35-31 win over Northern in front of a sellout crowd at Simplot Stadium in Caldwell, Idaho.

It was a de...