Skylights fight hard in Butte

The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team now knows what it’s like to play in five-set matches. That’s because, in week two of their 2017 season, the Skylights played three of them in just two days.

Northern was at the Big Sky Challenge in Butte this past weekend, a huge tournament made up of not just Frontier Conference squads, but teams from all across the NAIA. And while the Skylights went just 1-3 on the weekend, they easily could have been 3-1.

Friday, Northern twice went to a fifth set, but came up just short on both occasions. First, Northern lost a heartbreaker to nationall...