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Scobey Teams To Tip Off Hoops In The Coach Connors Classic

First Home Game Friday The 13th Vs. P-wood
Scobey Teams To Tip Off Hoops In The Coach Connors Classic
CLAY SOUTHLAND, a 5-foot-9 junior, is on the roster of the 2024-25 Scobey boys’ basketball program. He is shown warming up during the Monday, December 2, practice in the Scobey School large gym. The Spartans’ first game is Friday in Miles City against the Bridger Scouts, followed by a meeting with the Melstone Broncs Saturday afternoon. — Leader Photo, mike
Scobey Teams To Tip Off Hoops In The Coach Connors Classic
CLAY SOUTHLAND, a 5-foot-9 junior, is on the roster of the 2024-25 Scobey boys’ basketball program. He is shown warming up during the Monday, December 2, practice in the Scobey School large gym. The Spartans’ first game is Friday in Miles City against the Bridger Scouts, followed by a meeting with the Melstone Broncs Saturday afternoon. — Leader Photo, mike
 

It’s opening tip-off time for the Scobey girls’ and boys’ high school basketball teams and it starts this weekend with the Coach Connors Classic, presented by the Miles City Area Chamber of Commerce.

The tournament is named after the late Dan Connors, who in 1960 moved his family to Miles City to be the head coach of the football and basketball programs at Sacred Heart High School, where half of this weekend’s tournament will be played.

The Scobey girls will experience their first game of the 2024-25 season Friday, December 6, at 3 p.m. in the Miles Community College Centra when going up against the South C Division’s Bridger Scouts. On Saturday the Lady Spartans meet the Melstone Broncs, also of the South C, and also tipping off again at 3 p.m. and in the MCC Centra.

The Scobey girls posted a 14-4 record in the 2023-24 regular season and placed second at the District 3C Tournament in Glasgow, losing 49-27 to North Country in the championship.

In the East C Divisional Tournament, also played in Glasgow, the Spartans won 40-24 against Richey-Lambert then dropped a 35-34 decision to Plentywood in the semifinals. After a 49-42 win over Lustre Christian in a loser-out game they defeated Bainville 49-32 in the consolation. They needed Plentywood to defeat North Country in the championship to force a challenge game to possibly earn a berth in the State C Tournament but it was not to be as Plentywood was doubled up by the eventual state champion Mavericks 55-23, leaving Scobey in third place.

The Lady Spartans finished last season with an overall record of 19-6.

This season’s roster of head coach Jedd Lekvold and assistant coaches As...

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