Lights excited for first Frontier battles

With the way the Frontier Conference basketball schedule works, the Montana State University-Northern Lights must now shift gears in a hurry. That's because the Lights are about to go from playing non-conference games against the likes of Salish Kootenai College to battling a pair of bitter Frontier rivals.

Though it's only December, the Lights (5-2) open Frontier play tonight when they host the Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears. Things get even tougher when the No. 12 Carroll College Fighting Saints come to Havre Saturday night. Both games tip at 8 p.m. inside the Armory Gymnasium.

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