Stat Chat - Scobey Gridiron Greats Pack Big Punch When Numbers Crunched

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Now that the dust has settled, or should it be said snow, on the 2025 Montana High School Association football season, it is time to take a comprehensive look back at the tremendously successful effort the Scobey High School boys’ prep football program executed, which culminated into a Class C 8-man state championship.

Let’s start at the top, which would be a casual conversation with 13th-year Head Coach Brock Berryhill on Saturday, November 29, exactly one week after the Spartans defeated the Flint Creek Titans of the Drummond and Philipsburg communities 48-16 on the local beautiful grass turf called Plainsmen Field.

When interviewing the seven Scobey seniors individually on the field after the championship contest ended, they all mentioned, with none of the other six seniors being within ear-shot of the questions until it was their moment to be interviewed, being in the weightroom starting right after basketball season ended. It was later labeled as March-Weightroom-Champions! The question all seven were asked was: Tell about all the hard work that went into this season?

“Yes, it started the Monday morning right after the basketball season ended (two nights earlier in Butte),” replied Berryhill, who was assisted by coaches Mike Euken, Jeremy Handy and Payton Leibrand, manager Clay Southland and videographer Casen Schagunn. “They were in there at 6 a.m., lifted weights for about an hour, hour and 15 minutes. It wasn’t mandatory but a large group showed up, even some eight graders.”

It might have only been mid March, but the latesummer, early-fall football season was officially under way in the minds of the players.

It goes without saying but sucking it up and committing to the morning weightroom workouts played a big part in the undefeated season (12-0, 596160, 49.6-13.3).

Only on four occasions during this championship season did the Spartans fall behind on the scoreboard to their opponents: 6-0 to Circle in Roundtown on Friday, September 12, when the Wildcats fell on a fumble in the end zone two minutes and 55 seconds into the first quarter; 32-24 in Ekalaka with 6:06 remaining in the third quarter and later, in the same game, 38-36 with 9:03 remaining in the fourth quarter before capturing a 42-38 victory; against Flint Creek in the state championship game when the Titans took an 8-6 advantage with 1:58 ...