Lights turn away Griffins

Frontier Conference men's basketball games don't get any bigger than when the Montana State University-Northern Lights play host to the Westminster Griffins.

They don't get any bigger that is, unless the conference championship is at stake, as was the case in Northern's dramatic 64-58 win over the Griffins Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse.

The Lights needed a win over Westminster in order to set up having a chance to claim at least a share of the regular season Frontier title on Saturday night – and that's exactly what happened.

But as is always the case against the Griffins, a...