Lady Jackets Close Season against MSU-Northern on Katie Christiansen Night (Feb. 22, 2004)

BILLINGS, MT – The Montana State-Billings women’s basketball team will put its five-game winning streak on the line Monday night in the Yellowjackets’ regular season finale against Montana State-Northern.  Tip off is set for 7:00 p.m. at Alterowitz Gymnasium for the 15-11 Yellowjackets and the 18-11 Lights. 

Monday will also be Katie Christiansen Night as the Yellowjackets honor the longtime friend and supporter who passed away in September.  Katie’s husband, Nels Christiansen, coached for many years at the school and has been the crew chief for the Lady Yellowjackets’ bench crew for 30 years.  There will be a tribute to Katie at halftime of Monday’s game.

MSU Billings swept three games from Western New Mexico last week to reach its longest winning streak of the season.  A win Monday would match the Yellowjackets’ longest winning streak of the past two seasons at six games.  They won nine in a row during the 2001-2002 season.

Post players Tanya Petersen and Robyn Milne lead the Yellowjackets both offensively and defensively.  Petersen leads the team in scoring at 14.9 points per game and averaged 21 points in the three wins last week.  Milne averages a double-double of 14.2 points and 11.7 rebounds.  Her 304 rebounds this season are the third most in school history for a single season, and her 72 blocked shots are second on the single season list.

Sophomore guard Jenny Langford also averages double figures at 10.3 points per game.  Her 62 made 3-pointers this season tie her for third in school history for threes made in a single season.  She is tied with her sister Joan’s senior season total.  Three more 3-pointers will push Langford past Kami Malnaa for second on the school’s single season list.

MSU-Northern defeated Rocky Mountain College on Saturday in Billings.