Skylights face Western in conference tourney

Montana State University-Northern volleyball coach Lisa Handley is hoping that the old adage - a team that has nothing to lose has everything to gain -is true. Her team really does have nothing to lose as it prepares for the first round of the Frontier Conference volleyball tournament in Butte.

The Skylights come into the tournament ranked sixth out of eight teams and will face the University of Montana-Western Bulldogs at 6 p.m. tonight at the HPER Complex on the Montana Tech campus.

Northern is far from the pretournament favorite, but Handley knows her team is capable of causing teams proble...