Spartan Football Team Loses To Defending State Champ Fairview
They are certainly not pleased with the final outcome of last Saturday’s Montana High School Association football quarterfinal playoff game in Fairview but the Scobey Spartans have absolutely nothing to hang their collective heads about.
They gave it everything they had on a brutally cold afternoon on Starr Field and came up short in an 18-6 final.
Once time quickly passes over the next few weeks the Spartans of head coach Brock Berryhill and assistant coaches Mike Euken and Lucas Knight will truly realize what a great finishing run they put together this season.
For starters, they had to get by the Carter County (Ekalaka) Bulldogs in week nine, the final regular-season game for both squads on Scobey’s Plainsmen Field. The winner would make the playoffs while the other would not. On that nippy night, where the temperature was down to 29 degrees by game’s end, the Spartans got the job done in a 44-20 final.
Next was a 940-mile round trip to Manhattan Christian High School, where the South Division No. 1 seed, awaited the No. 4 seeded Spartans out of the East Division. This game, one of the best in quite a few seasons, came right down to the final play of the game. However, the Eagles failed to get the ball over the goal line as the quarterback, on a 3rd-and-18 from midfield, was tackled at Scobey’s 28yard line as the clock struck zero in a 26-18 Spartan win.
Quarterfinal weekend had the boys in blue and gold traveling to Fort Benton to face the North Division’s No. 2 seeded squad, the Longhorns. On a gorgeous 58-degree-above-zero afternoon with no wind and abundant sunshine, where the Scobey fans just might have out-numbered the Fort Benton fans—that’s not a stretch!—the Spartans led 28-6 with 6:36 left in the fourth quarter. They departed with a very convincing 36-20 win.
Which brings this very special story to semifinal weekend in Fairview Saturday, November 16, where Scobey was on the short end of a 28-20 final in week seven action of the regular season.
The weather was anything but 58 degrees above zero like seven days prior.
Try 33 degrees above zero, coupled with a 22 miles per hour wind out of the north/northwest making it feel like 20 degrees above zero with humidity at 97%.
Tough luck, the game must go on, and it began with a half-dozen fourwheelers and side-by-sides with blades pushing a goodsized blanket of snow off the Starr Field grass surface, the operation starting around noon and completed about one-half hour later.
Speaking of late, the Spartans we...
