MSU-Northern's David Maddock (left) shoots over Montana Tech's A.J. Paine during Friday night's Frontier Conference men's basketball game in Havre.

The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team already took one team's best shot in early Frontier Conference play. Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, the No. 13 Lights took another. Northern had tou battle hard, but the Lights won a defensive struggle, 62-52 over Montana Tech.

Despite making five 3-pointers in the first-half, and getting 16 points from LaVon Myers in the first 20 minutes, the Lights found themselves tie...