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Third In East C Again But Very Soon Something’s Got To Give

Third In East C Again But Very Soon Something’s Got To Give
IT WAS A BATTLE OF THE HANDS at this juncture of the Circle at Scobey game when Dylon Allestad (right) of the Spartans and Cheyenne Eissenger of the Wildcats were on the court. After winning their first five games of the season the Spartans lost 38-37 to the Wildcats in this game but won 41-31 January 20 in Circle and 33-32 in the District 3C Tournament’s semifinal game.
Third In East C Again But Very Soon Something’s Got To Give
IT WAS A BATTLE OF THE HANDS at this juncture of the Circle at Scobey game when Dylon Allestad (right) of the Spartans and Cheyenne Eissenger of the Wildcats were on the court. After winning their first five games of the season the Spartans lost 38-37 to the Wildcats in this game but won 41-31 January 20 in Circle and 33-32 in the District 3C Tournament’s semifinal game.

The Scobey varsity girls’ basketball team (19-6, 1166711, 46.6-28.4) has quite the streak going as it has never ended a season in the past eight years by finishing lower than third place at the East C Divisional Tournament.

The third-place streak was broken for the better in the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons when the Spartans qualified for the State C Tournament’s in Great Falls and Missoula respectively, placing third in the former and not placing in the latter.

After compiling this past season’s statistics, it feels like something is ready to give in the 2024-25 season.

Take, for instance, points allowed. In the 2022-23 season the Scobey girls gave up 874 total points to their opponents. This past season it dropped by 163 points, down to 711, a fantastic trend heading into the first practice this November.

In 2022-23 the Spartans allowed opponents to net 313 field goals while this past season the number dropped to 248, which is 65 less, or a reduction of 2.6 per contest. In the same time frame total points allowed dropped from 874 to 711, successful 3-point field goals by opponents dropped from 80 to 55 and fouls whistled on the Spartans went from 356 (14.8) to 277 (11.0).

How are you liking these trends so far?

The Lady Spartans should surely be thrilled with them, considering the team loses just one senior, Mia Handran, to graduation this spring.

The future is bright, which begs the question: will the Spartans flex their might?

Enough of the future, let’s take a look back at the 2023-24 season.

The leading scorer this past season was 6-foot junior Kaytie Aanstad who, in 25 games...

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