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Spartan Gridders Open Season In Broadus Friday, Kickoff at 6 Two-Game Homestand To Follow

Spartan Gridders Open Season In Broadus Friday, Kickoff at 6 Two-Game Homestand To Follow
THE SCOBEY SPARTANS do some running to loosen up for their Thursday, August 22 practice at Plainsmen Field. The boys in blue and gold hit the road to the southeast sector of Montana to play the Powder River County Hawks in the season-opener Friday, August 30, with kickoff scheduled for 6 p.m. If one can’t be there live and in person tune into KCGM 95.7 FM for all the play-by-play action. — Leader Photo, mike
Spartan Gridders Open Season In Broadus Friday, Kickoff at 6 Two-Game Homestand To Follow
THE SCOBEY SPARTANS do some running to loosen up for their Thursday, August 22 practice at Plainsmen Field. The boys in blue and gold hit the road to the southeast sector of Montana to play the Powder River County Hawks in the season-opener Friday, August 30, with kickoff scheduled for 6 p.m. If one can’t be there live and in person tune into KCGM 95.7 FM for all the play-by-play action. — Leader Photo, mike
 

Two-Game Homestand To Follow

The Scobey High School football team kicked off its 2024 season Friday, August 16, at Plainsmen Field with its first practice of the season. Now it will kickoff its first game with a 600-mile roundtrip to Broadus to face the Powder River County Hawks in an East C Division conference contest.

Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Hawks Field (Radio: KCGM 95.7 FM).

It will be the first meeting on the gridiron between the two schools since Friday, September 11, 2020 on Plainsmen Field in Scobey, where the Spartans were a 66-6 winner.

The reason the two schools have not played each other in that 3-season span was because the Broadus football team was moved out of the East C Division and into a newly-established Southeast C Division, which featured Forsyth, Lame Deer, Lodge Grass and St.

Labre, to name a few.

Friday’s game in Broadus could be the last one there between the Spartans and Hawks for a while or forever as the latter is getting somewhat close to possibly moving down to the Class C 6-Man classification some time soon due to lack of bodies.

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