Skylights falter on the road

Being shorthanded isn't easy, especially when it looks like the women's side of the Frontier Conference is loaded yet again. But being shorthanded on the road is an even more daunting task, and winning on the road is hard enough, even at full strength.

And this weekend, the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team found life on the road to be difficult yet again, as the Skylights lost at Montana Tech 64-54 on Friday, then fell at UM-Western 70-59 Saturday night in Dillon.

Northern has now dropped three straight road games to start conference play, but MSU-N head coach Chris...