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March 22, 2006
Skylights' season didn't follow the usual script
In sports, like in life, things don't always work out like anyone
hopes or expects. That was the 2005-06 Montana State
University-Northern women's basketball team's season in a nutshell.
The Skylights' season didn't end how any of them wanted it to.
Northern let a late seven-point lead against The Master's College
slip away in the second round of the NAIA national tournament in
Jackson, Tenn., Friday afternoon, ending the Skylights' magical and
tumultuous season.
[Complete Story] |
March 22, 2006
Jaci Heny named NAIA Division I Women's
Basketball 2nd Team All-American
Release |
March 22, 2006
Camille Gardner named Daktronics-NAIA Division I Women’s
Basketball All-American Scholar Athlete
Release |
March 20, 2006
Mustangs close out Skylights' amazing year
There is a saying that goes something like: All good things must
come to an end.
On Friday afternoon, in Jackson, Tenn., those words rang true for
the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team, as
the No. 24 Skylights fell to No. 12 The Master's College, 67-62 in
the second round of the NAIA women's national tournament.
[Complete Story]
| Skylights NAIA Tournament Webpage |
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March 17, 2006
Streaking Skylights set to play in Sweet 16 today
Over the last two months, the Montana State University-Northern
women's basketball team has been a giant killer, knocking off
several nationally ranked teams.
The Skylights did it three times in the regular season, and, on
Wednesday, in the opening round of the 2006 NAIA national tournament
in Jackson, Tenn., they did it again when they beat No. 13 Oklahoma
Christian University, 82-68.
[Complete Story]
| Skylights NAIA Tournament Webpage |
March 14, 2006
It's been a long road to Tennessee for MSU-N
On Wednesday afternoon, the Montana State University-Northern
Skylights will play in the NAIA women's national tournament for the
first time in five years. The Skylight program is one rich in
tradition, and over the years expectations by the school, its fans
and the community of Havre have been very high. But after what
happened to this Skylight team at the beginning of the 2005-06
season, no one could have expected or anticipated just how far the
Skylights would come.
[Complete Story]
| Skylights NAIA Tournament Webpage |
March 13, 2006
A new meaning to the phrase ‘learning on the job'
Montana State University-Northern head women's basketball
coach Chris Mouat is like every other basketball coach in America.
He has a distinct passion for the game, and he loves to teach it. He
is competitive and driven and he instills those qualities in his
players. And on top of all that, he genuinely cares about his
student-athletes. However, Mouat's rookie season at the helm of one
of the Frontier Conference's most historic women's program's has
been anything but normal.
[Complete Story]
| Skylights NAIA Tournament Webpage |
March 9, 2006
Skylights face Oklahoma Christian on Wednesday
On Monday, the Montana State University-Northern
Skylights found out that they had indeed received an at-large berth
into the 2006 NAIA National Women's basketball tournament. On
Wednesday night, the Skylights found out just who their first-round
opponent in Jackson, Tenn., will be. MSU-N is a No. 6 seed in
its quarter of the 32-team bracket, and the Skylights will face
third-seeded Oklahoma Christian University (23-8).
[Complete Story] |
March 7, 2006
It's Official, Skylights are in
On a day when four Montana State University-Northern Skylights were
tabbed as Frontier All-Conference players, the news got even better.
On Monday afternoon, MSU-N head coach Chris Mouat and the school's
athletic department received word that the No. 24 Skylights were
officially in the 2006 NAIA National Women's Basketball tournament.
[Complete Story] |
March 6, 2006
2005-06 Women's BB Frontier All-Conference Team
Jaci Heny & DeLayne Johnston named to 1st Team
Camille Gardner, Michele VanDyke named to 2nd Team
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March 6, 2006
Skylights come up short against Western; NAIA tourney next?
BUTTE - All season long, the Montana State University-Northern
Skylights have played shorthanded. Their starters have played a ton
of minutes, and no matter how well-conditioned and resilient they
are, the Skylights have had an excuse to be a tired basketball team.
On Friday night in the semifinals of the Frontier Conference women's
basketball tournament in Butte, Northern clearly looked tired in its
heartbreaking 74-71 loss to the UM-Western Bulldogs.
[Complete Story] |
March 3, 2006
Skylights fall to Lady Bulldogs 74-71
MT Standard Article |
March 2, 2006
Skylights open Frontier tourney with route of Westminster
Before Thursday night's opening round of the 2006 Frontier
Conference Women's basketball tournament, Montana State
University-Northern head basketball coach Chris Mouat was worried
about his first-round opponent, the Westminster College Griffins.
[Complete Story] |
March 2, 2006
Skylights rip Griffins; face UM-Western in semifinals
MT Standard Article |
March 2, 2006
Skylights face dangerous Griffins tonight in Butte
The talk surrounding the Montana State University-Northern women's
basketball team is that the No. 24 Skylights are already in the NAIA
national tournament.
Historically, no team that is ranked No. 25 or better in the final
NAIA regular season poll has been left out of the 32-team field. But
the only way the Skylights and first-year head coach Chris Mouat can
punch a guaranteed ticket to Jackson, Tenn., is by winning the 2006
Frontier Conference tournament.
[Complete Story] |
March 1, 2006
Frontier Conference Tournament Previews
MT Standard -
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Feb. 28, 2006
Final Frontier Conference BB Tournament Bracket
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Feb. 27, 2006
Skylights put away UGF; appear NAIA tourney-bound
Following Saturday night's 76-58 senior night win over the
University of Great Falls, the talk among the Montana State
University-Northern Skylights immediately turned to the postseason.
On the final night of the regular season, the final home game of the
year, and the final time that MSU-N guards Jaci Heny and Camille
Gardner played in front of Havre fans, the Skylights put on a show
against the young Argos.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 26, 2006
Skylights sink Lady Argos
Great Falls Tribune |
Feb. 24, 2006
Skylights bid fans farewell on Saturday
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team is red
hot right now. And on Saturday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse,
Skylight fans will have one last chance to see them play.
Northern will host the University of Great Falls Argos at 6 p.m. in
its final home game of the season.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 23, 2006
Frontier Conference Notebook
Great Falls Tribune |
Feb. 22, 2006
Jaci Heny named Women's NAIA Division I and Frontier Conference
Player of the Week
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Frontier Release
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Feb. 22, 2006
Skylights Basketball ranked #24 in NAIA
Poll |
Feb. 20, 2006
Skylights shine at home against Frontier's best
After last weekend, it is becoming quite clear that the Montana
State University-Northern Skylights have a flare for the dramatic
when they play at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 17, 2006
Skylights face Frontier's top team and scorer
Despite a sub-.500 record in Frontier Conference play, the Montana
State University-Northern women's basketball team has a flare for
rising to the challenge against nationally ranked teams.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 16, 2006
Frontier Conference Notebook
Great Falls Tribune |
Feb. 14, 2006
Townsend standout inks with Skylights
Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball coach
Chris Mouat has announced the signing of
Jessica Thompson to play for the Skylights next
season. Thompson is a 5’8” guard from Townsend,
where she has been a four-year starter.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 13, 2006
Skylights down Bears in Billings to finish road schedule
The Montana State University-Northern Skylights were riding high
after their upset of UM-Western two weeks ago in Havre. But, on
Thursday night in Helena, the Skylights were brought back down to
earth, just a little.
Northern traveled to Carroll College on Thursday night and the
Saints ran the Skylights out of town by a score of 94-72.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 8, 2006
Lights and Skylights hit the road for the last time
The final road trip of the season can be a double-edged sword
for any basketball team. Success can mean getting a leg up on
the rest of the conference, and failure can create immense pressure
to win the rest of the way out. That is the dilemma facing both the
Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams
this week, as both squads embark on the final road trip of the
regular season.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 7, 2006
Skylights Jaci Heny named Frontier Player of Week
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Feb. 6, 2006
Skylights soften Bulldogs' bite
Not to take anything away from the Montana State University-Northern
women's basketball team, but if someone had said before Saturday's
game with No. 9 UM-Western that the Skylights would take the lead
early and never trail again, most people would of thought that
person was crazy.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 5, 2006
Skylights tame Bulldog women
MT Standard Article |
Feb. 4, 2006
Skylights romp
Great Falls Tribune Article |
Feb. 3, 2006
Skylights glad to be home; host Tech and Western
It has been almost a month since Havre fans last saw the Montana
State University-Northern women's basketball team. It has also been
that long since the Skylights last tasted victory.
[Complete Story] |
Feb. 2, 2006
Second half of Frontier season will be exciting
The race is on. With seven games in the books in the 2006 Frontier
Conference basketball season, everything that happens from here will
have lasting implications for the conference tournament in Butte,
which is just a mere month away.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 29, 2006
Lady Argos rally to beat Skylights
Great Falls Tribune Article |
Jan. 27, 2006
Lights, Skylights travel to UGF
It is hard to believe, but, when the Montana State
University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams travel to
Great Falls on Saturday night to take on the University of Great
Falls Argos, it will mark the halfway point of the 2005 Frontier
Conference season.
And Saturday's games won't just be the renewal of an old rivalry. It
will be more about two games in which all parties involved are
searching for a much-needed win
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 27, 2006
Skylights Basketball signs Western Wyoming recruit
MSU-Northern women’s basketball coach Chris Mouat has announced
the signing of Becky Sorenson to play for the Skylights next
season. Sorenson is a 5’6” guard from Western Wyoming Community
College and a 2004 graduate of West High School in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 26, 2006
Salt Lake and Lewiston becoming Frontier graveyard
Life on the road in the Frontier Conference can be an extremely
difficult time for even the best of basketball programs. But playing
at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and Lewis-Clark State in
Lewiston, Idaho, is a whole other nightmare altogether.
Just ask Montana State University-Northern men's head coach Shawn
Huse or Skylights head man Chris Mouat.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 26, 2006
Familiar faces return as Lights come calling
Great Falls Tribune -- Frontier Conference Notebook |
Jan. 23, 2006
Warriors hand Skylights third straight conference loss
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team is
finding out how the other half lives. Earlier in the season, the
Skylights ripped off a sensational six-game winning streak.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 21, 2006
Skylights fall short against Griffins
Sooner or later foul trouble was going to catch up with the Montana
State University-Northern women's basketball team.
It didn't hurt them so much last weekend against Rocky Mountain
College or Carroll College. But on Thursday night foul trouble took
its toll on the Skylights as they fell to upstart Westminster
College, 76-72, in Salt Lake City.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 20, 2006
Lights and Skylights face Westminster in Salt
Lake
It was certainly an emotional first weekend of Frontier Conference
basketball in Havre for both the Montana State University-Northern
men's and women's teams.
Now, the Lights and Skylights will have to put the buzzer-beaters
and upsets of the past weekend behind them as they embark on their
longest road trip of the season.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 13, 2006
Skylights return home to face RMC and Carroll
For the second time this season, the Montana State
University-Northern Skylights are playing at home for the first time
in almost a month. Northern has endured two long road trips this
season, winding up with a 1-1 finish last weekend in Dillon and
Butte.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 12, 2006
Upsets highlight first weekend of Frontier action
The Frontier Conference men's and women's basketball season is still
in its infancy. However, if the opening weekend of play was an
indication of what the next two months hold, fans better buckle up
for a wild ride.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 9, 2006
Bulldogs snap Skylights' winning streak in Dillon
Streaks, as the cliche goes, are made to be broken. And it just so
happens the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball
team's six-game winning came to an end in its Frontier Conference
season-opener against UM-Western on Friday night in Dillon.
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 6, 2006
Lights & Skylights roll into Frontier season openers
[Complete Story] |
Jan. 4, 2006
Jaci Heny named Frontier Player of the Week
Story |
Jan. 4, 2006
Skylights ranked #23 in NAIA after Hawaii sweep
Poll |
Dec. 19, 2005
Skylights defeat Pirates to keep comeback perfect
For a time on Saturday night, it looked like the understaffed
Skylights had finally hit a wall. Still, the Skylights were
winners of four straight games heading into Saturday night's home
contest with NCAA Division III Whitworth College. On Saturday, they
went without a field goal for a 10-minute stretch in the first half,
and they experienced a similar drought midway through the second
half.
[Complete Story] |
Dec. 16, 2005
Skylights host Whitworth on Saturday
After a quick breather in Canada last weekend, where they had
two relatively easy wins over Augustana College, the Montana State
University-Northern Skylights will return to their home court
Saturday for the final time in 2005. The Skylights will host
Whitworth College at 5 p.m. Saturday at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse
in Havre.
[Complete Story] |
Dec. 12, 2005
Skylights down Augustana twice to keep comeback perfect
To say the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team
is off to a fast start since restarting its season after a Nov. 14
crash of the team's van in western Montana would be an
understatement.
In the last 10 days, the Skylights have thumped two frontier
Conference foes in Rocky Mountain College and the University of
Great Falls, and this weekend they had little trouble dispatching
Augustana College in a pair of games in Camrose, Alberta.
[Complete Story]
Dec. 8, 2005
There's no place like home for Skylights
They might not play like it for an entire game, or even
an entire half. But right now, the Montana State University-Northern
Skylights are perfect in their attempt to resurrect what was once a
promising season.
[Complete Story] |
Dec. 7, 2005
Welcome home, Skylights
Despite being shorthanded, despite being tired and
despite all of the off-court issues the Montana State
University-Northern women's basketball team had to face, the
Skylights returned to action triumphantly Saturday night in Wolf
Point.
[Complete Story] |
Dec. 2, 2005
Skylights return to the court in Wolf Point
The Montana State University-Northern Skylights haven't played a
basketball game for more than three weeks. To some, it might have
well been a year ago, given what the team has been through.
[Complete
Story] |
Nov. 18, 2005
Skylights Basketball Open Letter & Update
Open Letter |
Nov. 15, 2005
Skylights down Cascade, Warner Pacific colleges
As irrelevant as basketball is to the Montana State
University-Northern women's basketball team right now, the Skylights
did have a very successful weekend during their three-game road trip
in Portland, Ore.
[Complete Story] |
Nov. 15, 2005
Skylights' thoughts are on two injured teammates
The thoughts of the Montana State University-Northern Skylights
basketball team are focused on two players today after a crash
Monday sent 10 team members and coaches to a hospital.
[Complete Story]
Nov. 10, 2005
Skylights head to Portland for three-game trip
The last three weeks have been a rollercoaster ride for the Montana
State University-Northern women's basketball team. The Skylights
have started the season off with five home games, two doubleheaders
and the loss of a key player to a season-ending injury.
[Complete Story]
Nov. 7, 2005
Skylights earn split with Albertson College
Getting beat on a last-second heave can be a basketball team's worst
nightmare. That's exactly what happened to the Montana State
University-Northern Skylights on Friday night at the MSU-Northern
Fieldhouse.
[Complete Story] |
Nov. 6, 2005
Skylights split w/ Albertson College
Friday's Box Score
Saturday's Box Score |
Nov. 4, 2005
Skylights host Albertson College in a doubleheader
One tough doubleheader down, another to go. That is the plight of
the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team right
now, as it prepares to host Albertson College of Idaho tonight at 5
at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse.
[Complete Story] |
Nov. 2, 2005
Jaci Heny named Frontier Player of the Week
Frontier Conference Press Release |
Oct. 31, 2005
Skylights earn weekend split with Lethbridge
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team had
nearly two weeks of rest since its season-opening win over Thompson
Rivers University.
In that time, the Skylights lost starting forward Jayla McPherson to
a season-ending knee injury. On Saturday night, it also appeared
that MSU-N lost its ability to play sound defense.
[Complete
Story] |
Oct. 17, 2005
Skylights down Wolfpack, MSU-N alumni teams fall
It wasn't perfect. In fact, if you ask new Montana State
University-Northern women's basketball coach Chris Mouat, it was far
from perfect.
Nevertheless, the MSU-N Skylights opened their regular season with a
resounding 77-39 win over Thompson Rivers University Sunday
afternoon at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. [Complete Story] |
Oct. 14, 2005
Skylights face alumni Saturday, Thompson Rivers Sunday
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team may
have a new head coach and a few new faces this season, but fans can
expect the same winning attitude that has been a staple of the
Skylights' program for more than two decades.
[Complete Story] |
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May 16, 2005
Women's head basketball coach leaving Northern
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball program is in
search of a head coach again. After three years with the program, head
coach Mike Erickson submitted a letter of resignation this morning to
athletics director Byron Ophus. "My wife and I found an opportunity
where we both had positions and it would allow me to spend more time at home
with my family," Erickson said today.
Apr. 28, 2005
Havre's McPherson transferring from UGF
One way or another, Jayla McPherson was going
to have a lot of new teammates. Only next season, McPherson will be wearing
a different uniform. The former Havre High all-state basketball and
volleyball standout is coming home to play basketball, transferring from the
University of Great Falls to play for the Montana State University-Northern
Skylights.
Mar. 22, 2005
Erickson adds depth with pair of recruits
Montana State University-Northern
women's basketball head coach Mike Erickson has added his first new recruits
for the 2005-06 basketball seasons, signing a pair of players. |
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