Carroll sweeps Northern in Helena

Saturday was a treacherous day across Montana, and that included the stop in Helena the Montana State University-Northern men’s and women’s basketball teams had to make for a pair of Frontier Conference games.

The Northern women ran into a buzzsaw in the form of the No. 13 Fighting Saints, who downed the Skylights 67-46 in the Carroll P.E. Center.

The Saints got off to a hot shooting start and never looked back in the win. Carroll made four first-half 3-pointers and led 36-26 at intermission. From there, the Skylights just couldn’t recover.

Carroll shot 46 percent from the field,...