Varsity Football Team Down To Final 3 Regular Season Games Suffer Second Loss To Culbertson

Suffer Second Loss To Culbertson

From the frying pan into the fire?

Now that the Scobey Spartans (4-2, 196-79, 32.613.1) have lost their second game of the season, a 25-0 setback to a good Culbertson team last Friday night on Plainsmen Field, can they get back on the winning track?

Let’s just say things don’t get any easier Friday, October 11, when traveling to Starr Field to play the topranked Class C 8-Man team in the state—the Fairview Warriors (6-0, 314-86, 52.314.3).

It’s a tall order for the Spartans but in the game of football one really never knows until the fourth-quarter clock strikes zero.

The Warriors are currently sporting an 18-game winning streak. After losing 54-48 to Saint Ignatius in a 2022 Class C 8-man semifinal playoff game in western Montana, Fairview has been on the winning side ever since. They went 8-0 in the regular season last year and then powered their way through the playoffs by defeating the Belt Huskies 40-28 in the state championship game. Fairview tallied 646 points for a 43.0 average and allowed 246 (14.4) on defense in 2023. Thus far in 2024 the Warriors of head coach Derek Gackle have dominated five of their first six opponents: 63-26 over Poplar; 62-8 at Forsyth; 47-19 at Culbertson; 61-0 over Powder River County (Broadus); 52-12 at Plentywood. Last Friday’s matchup against the Circle Wildcats in Round Town was a come-from-behind effort for Fairview, which eked out a 29-24 victory. By comparison, when the Spartans hosted Circle in week two of this season, the Wildcats escaped south with an ext...