Skylights sweep Orediggers

What a start.

First the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team matched its 2009 win total in its first three weeks of the season. The Skylights went an outstanding 7-3 this preseason.

And on Thursday night in Butte, Northern kept things rolling by sweeping the Montana Tech Orediggers in the Frontier Conference opener for both teams.

The Skylights beat the Orediggers by scores of 25-18, 29-27 and 25-20 to go to 1-0 in league play. Northern finishes its first conference road trip tonight against UM-Western in Dillon.

Northern opened strong, racing past the Orediggers in the first g...