For three quarters, the Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team was threatening to take down a Rocky Mountain College team knocking on the door of a Top 25 appearance.

Unfortunately for Northern, the game was four quarters.

Thursday night in the Armory Gymnasium, Frontier Conference play started for good as the Battlin’ Bears defeated Northern 76-60, dropping MSU-N to 0-3 in league play and snapping the Skylight’s three-game winning streak.

“Bottom line, we got off to a terrible start tonight,” MSU-N head coach Chris Mouat said. “Defensively, we just didn’...