SCOBEY SPARTANS 8-MAN STATE CHAMPIONS!
SCOBEY SPARTANS finished the 2025 season November 22 at home with an undefeated record of 12-0. For the year, the Spartans scored 596 points (49.6 average) and allowed 160 (13.3) on defense.
In front: Braylon Henderson, Reed Cromwell, Bryson Halverson, Liam Leininger, Asher Handran, Reese Tande, Torsten Lamb, Quinn Axtman, Holter Girard, Cooper Axtman, Konner Oller, Bram Handran, Aiden Norby, Clay Southland, Baylor Berryhill.
Standing: Simon McGowan, assistant coach Payton Leibrand, Cam Cromwell, Brecken Maher, Evan Tande, Curtis Leibrand, assistant coach Mike Euken, Tate Johnsrud, Jacob Bekker, Kolten Machart, Bridger Larson, Teagan Fishell, Sabastian McGowan, Blake Lekvold, Seth Halverson, Tyce Holum, Heath Cahill, Tommas Lundquist, asstistant coach Jeremy Handy, Head Coach Brock Berryhill and Aydan Stentoft.
See Story and More Inside Scobey Wipes Out Early Deficit To Capture Class C 8-Man State Title
Triple Championship Season Is Now In Play!
The 2025-26 triplecrown championship journey is now officially in play as of 3:01 p.m. Saturday, November 22, 2025.
The Scobey Spartans defeated the Flint Creek Titans of the Drummond and Philipsburg communities 48-16 on Plainsmen Field, earning the distinction of being labeled forever Montana High School Association’s Class C 8-man state champions in football for 2025.
Twenty-three seasons separate the last time Scobey won the state title, when the Spartans hosted the Wibaux Longhorns and were victorious 50-6.
Some of the football players will now focus on the 2025-26 prep basketball campaign. After placing third at the State C Tournament in Butte last March, losing 68-55 to the eventual champion Box Elder Bears in the semifinals, the Spartans have designs of winning it all in Missoula during this coming late-winter season in March. After Saturday’s performance on the gridiron, the Scobey boys certainly have the horsepower to do it out west on the hardwood. If they do so, it sets the table for a possible third state title in late May at Marias Valley Golf Course south of Shelby along the Marias River. The likely four boys who will be golfing for the Spartans out west are all back from last season, when they became the two-time defending State C champs. These young men, all four seeing considerable action in last Saturday’s chipper on the Plainsmen Field turf, know how to deal with pressure: been there, done that twice. They have a great shot at making it three in a row, not only as the golf team but also with their football and hopefully b-ball state titles.
Someone out there in Leader- reader land is thinking or going to say “you just jinxed those guys.”
Not hardly. Only a fool would think it because these guys are the real deal, putting it on full display last Saturday in front of an extremely large crowd; it could have possibly been the largest ever on Plainsmen Field as the folks from Drummond and Philipsburg showed up enmasse to see their team go for the gold.
The last time these two met was in Drummond in 2020, where the Class C 8-Man State Championship Game was being held with the Titans emerging 44-6 winners.
Round two between the two began at 1:01 p.m. Saturday with the opening kickoff, when the temperature was 45 degrees above zero but felt like 41 due to a 6 miles per hour wind (for the third week in November it was beautiful!).
Senior Brecken Maher returned the opening kickoff 24 yards to the Scobey 26. Following an incomplete pass, starting quarterback sophomore Reese Tande hooked up with senior tight end Bram Handran for a 41yard pass reception and first down at the Titans’ 11-yard line. Two plays later it was 6-0.
Flint Creek, facing a 4thand-2 from its own 19-yard line ...
