Skylights split at tournament

Montana State University-Northern women's basketball coach Mike Erickson didn't know if the sun was going to come up on Saturday morning. Following his team's lackluster performance in a disappointing 78-62 loss to Rocky Mountain College on Friday night, Erickson wasn't sure about seeing the light of day.

How bad was it? Rocky opened the game with a tough basket inside from Callie Sparing and never looked back. Northern turned the ball over 24 times in the game and when the players did get a shot, it didn't fall. The Skylights shot an anemic 32 percent from the field including 1-16 from three-...