BILLINGS, Mont. – The 12th-ranked Rocky Mountain College women's basketball team brought its regular season to a close by falling to Lewis-Clark State College 61-56 on Saturday night in the Fortin Education Center.
 
Rocky entered the night locked into the No. 3 seed in the Frontier Conference Tournament. The loss drops the Battlin' Bears to 21-7 overall and 11-7 in Frontier play.
 
Lewis-Clark State (17-12, 8-10 Frontier) held a double-digit lead for most of the first half and was ahead 40-25 with 5:38 remaining in the third quarter. Rocky then got something going and put together a 20-7 run to pull within 47-45 with 6:59 to play in the game.
 
The next 4:08 of play saw the visiting Warriors score six of the game's next seven points to keep the Battlin' Bears out of striking distance. After Rocky got back to 54-51 with 1:36 on the clock, LC State converted at the foul line to avoid the three-game sweep to Rocky.
 
Rocky finished the night shooting 37.0 percent from the field and had to shoot 50 percent in the second half to get that high. They went 5 of 19 from beyond the arc and scored 16 points from seven offensive rebounds.
 
Hailee Farstveet and Brooke Jones had 16 points apiece to lead the Battlin' Bears. Fartsveet knocked down a pair of 3-pointers and tallied six assists. Jones had a team-high seven rebounds and two steals.
 
LC State had a 33-26 edge in rebounds and they shot 47.7 percent. Rocky got back in the game by forcing 17 Warrior turnovers and converting them into 16 points.
 
Jossilyn Blackman led three Warriors in double figures with 14 points.
 
The Battlin' Bears will now enter the conference tournament where they will host Montana Tech in Wednesday's quarterfinals. Rocky's first home playoff game since 2012 will begin at 7 p.m.