Game Time: Lights kick off 2011

Northern linebacker Landry See (right) chases UM-Western QB Jeff Logan during a Frontier Conference football game last fall in Havre. The Lights and Bulldogs open the season Saturday at Blue Pony Stadium. For more coverage, see the Game Day inside today's Havre Daily News.

Last season, the Montana State University-Northern football team was hoping a 20-3 season-opening win at UM-Western would be the springboard to bigger and better things. In same ways it was. The Lights were vastly improved in 2010, but got little to show for it with a 3-7 record.

Now, over one year later, the Lights will be...