Breaking Sports: Lights get past Battlin' Bears

MSU-Northern's Devin Jackson (left) drives to the basket during Friday night's men's basketball game in Havre.

The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team was desperate to stop its three-game losing skid, by any means necessary. On Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, the No. 22 Lights did just that, earning a 77-67 Frontier Conference win over the Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears.

The Lights hadn't won since Jan. 28 in Havre, but Northern jumped out to a 24-4 lead as Devin Jackson scored 12 points in the first nine minutes of the game. Rocky rebounded with a 13-3...