Surging Carroll turns out the Lights in Helena

The Montana State University-Northern Lights have been coming on strong in recent weeks. But they, once again, ran into an old foe that they just couldn’t get past.

This past weekend in Helena, Northern dropped a pair of Frontier Conference road games to Carroll College, including falling 77-56 Saturday night. In that game, Carroll jumped ahead early, but Northern closed the game to 35-26 by halftime. The Lights continued to fight in the second half, but they couldn’t get any closer, and the Saints show 50 percent and made six second-half 3-pointers to pull away for good.

Carroll also got a hu...