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BOZEMAN (AP) — Montana State ran wild on Monmouth in the first half and cruised to a 42-24 win in the season opener for both teams Thursday night. MSU scored three touchdowns in the first quarter to go up 22-0, the last a 90-yard run by Shawn Johnson. The Bobcats rolled up 388 total yards, including 205 rushing by halftime, before a Bobcat stadium record 21,007 fans. They finished with 561 total yards. Brad Daly led the defensive charge for the No. 2 Bobcats. The end had four quarterback hurries, four tackles for loss, a s...
Week one was just one match to see how things went. Week two was an endurance test, with six matches in three days. But now the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team is really off and running. Friday and Saturday, the Skylights will play four matches at the Embry-Riddle Invitational in Daytona Beach, Fla., and all four matches will be against quality NAIA opponents. Friday the Skylights take on the University of Mobile (Ala.) and Ashford University of Iowa....
When the Montana State University-Northern Lights were getting set for their 2012 season opener, expectations and excitement were at a fever pitch. After all, the Lights were picked to finish second in the Frontier and were set to battle Carroll College for the Frontier Conference championship. But the Fighting Saints steamrolled the Lights last August in Blue Pony Stadium, and Northern limped to a 3-7 record. Fast forward one year, and Northern is again excited and again has...
The start of a Montana Grizzly football season is always a highly-anticipated moment. But perhaps no season-opener in Griz’ history has been more hyped than this one. On Saturday night, in the first-ever regular season game played at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, Montana will open the season against an old friend in FCS rival Appalachian State. But it really isn’t the Mountaineers last-ever trip to Missoula which has Griz Nation excited, anxious and curious. Montana starts the...
Going into the 2012 season, expectations for the Montana State University-Northern football team were sky high. The Lights were picked to finish second in the Frontier, and a big reason why was the potentially explosive offense the Lights brought to the table. In some ways, the Lights’ offense lived up to the preseason billing last year, yet Northern slumped to a 3-7 record and failed to win a game on the road. Now, expectations for the Lights as a whole might not be as h...
Over the last three seasons, the Montana State Bobcats have been on a steady climb. Yet, as the 2013 season draws near, the Cats still feel as though they have a mountain to scale. Montana State has claimed at least a share of the Big Sky Conference title in each of the last three seasons. The Cats have also reached the Football Championship Subdivision quarterfinals the last two seasons, and among other things, have been ranked No. 1 in the FCS on several different...
Kickers, punters, ultra-fast return men, those things can be the difference between wins and losses in college football. The Montana State University-Northern Lights saw a couple of special team’s plays make the difference against them in 2012, and they’re hoping to turn the tables this fall. The biggest difference the Lights will have on special team’s this season is the addition of a full-time place kicker. As a sophomore, cornerback Trevor Baum handled the place...
Having a top-rated defense is almost a must if teams are going to be successful in the Frontier Conference. That’s because it seems like almost everybody has a high-powered offense these days. Though the Montana State University-Northern Lights finished the 2012 season ranked right in the middle of the Frontier in most defensive categories, the Lights know, and want, to be better in 2013. In order for Northern to be an improved defense, several things need to happen. The L...
The 2012 Frontier Conference season will forever be remembered as the year the league got turned upside down. After all, Carroll College lost an improbable three games in 2012, while Montana Tech went from seventh in 2011 to a tie for first. And then there’s Southern Oregon, which reeled off a two-month long winning streak and laid claim to the league title in its first season in the conference. Yes, the 2012 season was a wild one to put it mildly. And while a repeat of 2...
George Ferguson Havre Daily News sports editor [email protected] After playing just one match on the opening weekend of the 2013 season, the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team got down to business this weekend. The Skylights played six matches against Cascade Conference opponents at the annual Cascade/Frontier Challenge in Spokane. Northern went 4-2 on the weekend, with losses coming to nationally ranked Eastern Oregon Thursday, as well as Northwest...
The Havre High boys and girls golf teams got to start the high school golf season on a familiar course and against familiar opponents. But the second varsity golf tournament of the season will be much different for the Blue Ponies. Monday morning, the HHS varsity teams will compete at the prestigious Great Falls Invitational. The tournament is a two-day, 36-hole event featuring every Class AA school, as well as the Ponies and Whitefish from the Class A ranks. Havre started...
At the beginning of the week, Montana State University-Northern head football coach Mark Samson said his team was going to grind through the second week of two-a-day practices. And that difficult grind ended with Thursday night’s scrimmage at the Havre Middle School football field. Northern scrimmaged live for about an hour and a half with the team working on offense, defense and special teams. And at the end, the Lights broke the huddle headed for game week as they take on D...
The season-opening match last weekend didn’t go according to plan for the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team. But the good news is, the Skylights have six matches over the next three days in order to get things headed in the right direction. Northern, which lost its season-opener to Midlands University last Friday in Great Falls, will compete in the Cascade/Frontier Challenge the next three days in Spokane. The Skylights will take on six teams from the NAIA C...
Eight days. Just eight days stand between the Montana State University-Northern Lights and a season-opening Frontier Conference clash with the Dickinson State Blue Hawks. And while that Aug. 29 opener seems close at hand, the Lights aren’t presently focused on the Blue Hawks just yet. No, Northern is focused on continuing to improve, and most importantly, grinding through training camp. The Lights are into their second week of two-a-day practices, and that’s exactly what it...
If the Montana State University-Northern Skylights want to be challenged during their non-conference volleyball season, they certainly got that and more in their season opener. Friday afternoon, at the McLaughlin Center in Great Falls, the Skylights were swept by Midland University of Nebraska. The Skylights lost their 2013 debut by scores of 25-19, 25-15 and 25-23. Midland, which is picked to win its conference this season, went on to sweep UGF as well Friday. In all,...
Summer two-a-days do a lot for the growth of a football team like the Montana State University-Northern Lights, but with the regular season in sight, a scrimmage can do even more. The regular season gets underway on Aug. 29, as the Lights travel to North Dakota to take on Dickinson State. But in another step of preparation, the Lights took to the MSU-N practice fields on Saturday morning for a full-pad, high-tempo scrimmage. It was the first scrimmage of the summer for the...
The Montana State University-Northern football team has been hard at work since Sunday morning, preparing to begin the 2013 season. And by the end of today, the Lights will have already gotten in 12 full practices, including going live-hitting for the first time Tuesday. But Saturday marks the first real test for the Lights as they conduct their first scrimmage of fall camp. And though the scrimmage won’t be a game-type scrimmage, as it’s still early, and the Lights have a way...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team has been together since the beginning of August. The Skylights, who are coming off their best season in a decade, have been through two-a-day practices, conditioning and hard work. They’ve been through an intra-squad scrimmage and a team retreat. Today in Great Falls, however, the Skylights get to try something new in 2013 — they get to play a match against a real opponent. Northern opens its season today against Mid...
There’s a lot of history when it comes to Frontier Conference football. Great players, great teams, national championships, memorable games and, of course, historic campuses around the Treasure State. Adding to the history, the Frontier houses some of the most unique, and nicest football venues in all of the NAIA. And that fact only adds to the lore of the premier football conference in the west. For the Montana State University-Northern Lights, Blue Pony Stadium has been home...
Montana State University-Northern senior setter Joni Nagy makes a pass during the Skylights' intra-squad scrimmage Wednesday night at the Armory Gymnasium. MSU-N opens the season Friday afternoon in Great Falls....
It seems like just yesterday. One day Mark Samson was winning Class AA state championships at Helena Capitol High School, and the next, he had become just the second head coach in Montana State University-Northern’s return to football after a nearly 30-year dormancy. Now, Samson enters his 10th season with the Lights, and in that time he’s certainly made huge strides. Samson’s first MSU-N team went 2-9, but after that, the Lights ripped off for straight seasons above the .500...
A year ago, the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team was picked to finish sixth in the Frontier Conference Preseason Coaches Poll. All the Skylights did with that prediction was go 10-6 in the regular season and reach the dramatic fifth set of the Frontier Conference championship match last November in Butte. Fast-forward a year and the ultra-talented Skylights, who return five senior starters, still are flying under the radar when it comes to preseason...
The 2012 season the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team completed last November could be summed up in many ways. But putting it simply, it was a magical ride. However, after coming within a mere two points of beating Carroll College for the Frontier championship, after finishing the regular season with 18 wins and a 10-6 record in the Frontier Conference, and after completing the winningest season Northern has had in almost a decade, the Skylights weren’t — and a...
The season opening game against Dickinson State is only getting closer, but the Montana State University-Northern Lights football program must first get through this first week of practice, as well as the upcoming summer scrimmages. And as of now, the early stages of the new season are continuing to go very well for head coach Mark Samson and his Lights. Summer two-a-days began on Sunday morning at the MSU-N practice fields in Havre. And on Tuesday, the Lights’ momentum is nearing 100 percent as they prepare for a s...
Lights breaking in new tailbacks this fall At times, the Frontier Conference was widely known for its wide-open, high-flying passing offenses. At other times, it has been known for its grind-it-out running teams. Now, in the age of the spread offense, it’s a little bit of both. But each year, the Frontier seems to have some of the best running backs in all of NAIA football, and with three 1,000-yard rushers, last season was no different. And, with so much talent returning a...
