Northern spikers play LC State tough, still fall on the road

The Montana State University-Northern Skylights haven’t won a set in Frontier Conference play this season. But, the Skylights came agonizingly close to doing that more than once Saturday afternoon.

Northern was on a two-match road swing this past week, and Saturday afternoon at Lewis-Clark State, the Skylights played easily their best match of the season. In a three-set loss to the Warriors, Northern battled to scores of 28-26, 25-21 and 32-30. The match was intense from start to finish, and in all three sets, the Skylights had leads, and set points in two of three.

However, Northern is...