Welcome to "Friday night live," MTN Sports' continuous real-time tracker of various scores and updates from the high school football field in Montana.
Each Friday in the fall, we'll keep a running tab of what's happening on the gridiron, sharing the biggest scores and key updates from around the state as they become available. The most recent updates will be at the top, so refresh this page often.
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6:35 p.m. | Championship rematch in AA
Billings West is at Kalispell Glacier tonight for a rematch of their 2025 Class AA state title game, which the Wolfpack won. A couple interesting coaching notes: It's the first game of the final season for West coach Rob Stanton, while Glacier coach Grady Bennett must sit out this game (and next week's) due to a suspension for a recruiting violation.
The game is a scoreless tie after the first quarter.
6:26 p.m. | Missed opportunity
In Class B, Fairfield took an early 7-0 lead over Eureka and was knocking on the door at the goal line for a two-score lead, but the Eagles fumbled and it was recovered by Eureka in front of its own end zone.
Meanwhile in Billings, an Eli Kasberg TD throw had Missoula Big Sky up 21-0 over Billings Senior with less than 6:00 left in the opening quarter.
6:11 p.m. | Big Sky strikes early
Missoula Big Sky is already up 14-0 on Billings Senior at the new Sam McDonald Stadium at Daylis. The Eagles started the season about as well as you can, returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown.
6 p.m. | Recapping Thursday's games
Before we get going on tonight's games, let's take a quick look back at Thursday night, which featured the first opening games of the season. There were two games in Class AA, and one each in Class A and the 8-Man ranks.
Here's a recap of those final scores:
Class AA
Bozeman 56, Missoula Hellgate 14
Helena 41, Billings Skyview 14
Class A
Columbia Falls 34, Lewistown 26
8-Man
Centerville 52, Rocky Boy 8
This photo was sent to us from Centerville. Thanks for sharing!
You can check out Thursday's highlights roundup here.
