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Skylights breeze past Cougars

If the Montana State University-Northern Skylights were needing a competitive push — they got it in the form of the Mount Royal Cougars. For a half anyway.

On Friday night at the Armory Gymnasium, the Cougars, a member of the CIS, the highest division of college basketball in Canada, gave the Skylights all they could handle for 20 minutes. But, in the end, it mattered little as Northern used a monstrous third quarter to cruise to an 82-52 win, its third straight to open the season.

“It was great,” Northern head coach Chris Mouat said of the tough first half, in which the Skylights led just 34-...

 

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