KHOU Chronicles Spartans Unique Football Journey

The Scarborough Spartans football team, despite not winning any games this season, found itself playing an extra game after their regular season.  Daniel Gotera of KHOU Houston filed the above report on the team's growth throughout the season, including its season finale in Beaumont against West Orange Stark on November 13.

A unique series of events led to Scarborough's first post-season appearance in 19 years.

Last spring, the UIL placed Scarborough in one of several five team football districts. These small districts were necessitated by a low number of teams in the classification.

Shortly after the classification, the Houston ISD decided to re-purpose Jones High School.  One result of the re-purposing was that athletics were abandoned at the school.

Since Jones was slated to play in Scarborough's district, the Spartans found themselves in the state's only four team district. Since four teams from each district advance, a post-season berth for the Spartans in November was clinched before pre-season drills even began.   Doing the math, 64 of 87 teams competing in 4A Divsion II qualified for the post-season.

Note: Two other teams in the state (in other classifications) played an extra game this season despite winning only ONE regular season game.  Grullo, who competes in 4A Division I was 1-8.  Freer, a 3A Division II team was 1-9 in the regular season.

Grullo fell 60-20 in their extra game.  Freer dropped their bonus contest, 66-6.