Frontier Notebook: Frontier reaches the stretch run

The halfway point in the Frontier Conference men's and women's basketball seasons have come and gone. Now, the race is really on.

For the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's teams, the race is tightening in different ways.

The Lights are coming off only their second conference loss of the season, a 69-68 setback at the University of Great Falls last Saturday night. Leon Sutton's bank-shot 3-pointer was shocking and it could have done significant damage to the Lights' progress towards repeating as Frontier champions. However, perhaps just as shocking, the UM-Western Bulldogs wer...