Box Elder, Chinook girls still going

For two District 9C girls basketball teams, the rest of the Northern C tournament will be about staying alive. For another, Thursday marked the end of the road.

On another busy day at the Northern C girls tournament in Great Falls, the Chinook Sugarbeeters lived to fight another day, while the Box Elder Bears will now look to do the same. However, the 9C champion Fort Benton-Geraldine Longhorns saw their season come to a halt after two loser-out games.

For the Bears, who made a great run in Wednesday night’s quarterfinals, they simply ran into a juggernaut Thursday night in the semifina...