Knights get hot in the second half to defeat T-Birds

Day one of the District 9C Girls Basketball Tournament wrapped up on Wednesday with a meeting between the No. 2 seed North Star Knights and the No. 7 seed Hays-Lodge Pole Thunderbirds. After a close first half in Havre High Gymnasium, the Knights got rolling in the second half to pull away for the 61-31 victory to start the tournament.

"You get nerves in the first game. There's a lot of anticipation and I thought we had that in the first half," North Star head coach Scott Bymaster said. "In the second half, we just had to regroup, collect ourselves and we really played a solid second half ther...