Lights outlast Orediggers: Skylights fall in Butte

Winning on the road is never easy, especially in the Frontier Conference. So even though it wasn’t pretty, the Montana State University-Northern Lights will take the 71-63 victory it got over Montana Tech Thursday night.

Both the Lights and the Skylights took on Montana Tech in Butte as part of a Frontier Conference basketball doubleheader Thursday night.

The Northern women dropped the first game to the Orediggers 71-55, but in the nightcap, the Lights rallied in the second half to pull out an eight-point win.

The Lights, who knocked off Providence Tuesday night in Havre, found them...