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Spectator Information: Purchasing Tickets:
Watching Games: Visit www.NFHSnetwork.com and search DeWitt High School. There is a subscription required. This will allow you to watch games from your easy chair. But, we'd rather have you with us at Memorial Stadium. Listening to games: Games are on the DeWitt Panthers Network by Matt Merrifield live or recorded. Accessing the broadcast can be done by going to www.HighSchoolStreaming.com and click on DeWitt at the top. 2024 Highlight Video A must see for Panther Fans. Enjoy other DeWitt Panther Football videos. |
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Complete Division 3 Bracket.
DeWitt, MI(11/10/2025): Friday evening the DeWitt Panthers will host the Fenton Tigers for the regional championship game. The winner of this game will play the winner of Warren De La Salle Collegiate and Detroit Martin Luther King for a Division 3 Semi-Final appearance to be played at a neutral site. Weather, dry and 40s. Fenton is 8-3 on the season and champions of the Flint Metro League - Stripes division. If that sounds familiar, Linden is in the same division. Fenton defeated Linden a month ago in 46-41. The three losses were to playoff teams. They lost to Midland Dow (10-1) in week one 38-6 and lost to Haslett (8-3) 15-14 in week two. They also lost to Goodrich (11-0) for the Metro League Championship 21-20. Goodrich beat 9-1 Chelsea last week in their district final. Last Friday night, Fenton trounced a good 9-1 Adrian team 35-7 for their district title. This will be the second meeting all time between the two schools, as DeWitt defeated Fenton in the 2023 distrtct playoffs. The two teams have two common opponents this season, Linden and Haslett. As mentioned, Fenton lost to Haslett in week two and beat Linden week seven in a wild one, 46-41. Fenton is coached by Jeff Setske and is in his 14th successful season. He is 109-36 and 13 playoff appearances and only one losing season in 2021.Overall, Fenton has been to the playoffs 24 times in program history. Remember the '24 DeWitt team with Elliott Larner at QB and twin brother Abram at receiver? Fast forward to this year. Same situation for Fenton, Noah Sheil and Rory Sheil, twin seniors. Noah is 6-1 and 195lbs QB with a smooth delivery on passes whether a screen pass (that they run a lot) or a dart 20 yards down field or a 50 heave. Last we saw he is 90 of 170 passing for over 1,500 yards, 15 TDs (We have a hunch is it more than that) and only 3 interceptions. He can sling it side arm for a screen pass, throw long or throw well on the run. His primary target will be twin brother Rory. Looks a lot like Abram (same #4) running pass routes and is fast and they will throw the fade route to the corner of the endzone. When Noah gets pushed from the pocket, he seems to know right where Rory is. They run the spread with single back in the back field. Sheil has four excellent receivers to choose from, reminiscent of the DeWitt 2002 receivers of Wiliams, Way, Holland and Lloyd. Fenton has Rory Sheil, Landon Becker, Landry LaFontaine and Nathan Fuller. All with great hands and speed. And all possess the ability for yards after catch. In the backfield with Sheil will be Lafontaine and Cruz Gomez. He is a very strong guy although not tall at 5'9" and will make arm tackles never happen. Gomez will be hard to find behind his big front five blockers. A couple of them is Owen Raymond at 6-2 and 275lbs can probably move a pick up truck. And to move a trailer hooked to the truck is Tommy Chanter at 6-3 and 275. Both have good footwork and can blast block or get out on a screen pass and block down field. Did we mention they will throw a number screen passes? Max Wolfgram is just a little guy at 6-4 230lbs and is a beast especially on the D line. They do have many more very good players, but after seeing these highlights, we did not want to see any more. Friday night is going to be a heck of a ball game between Tigers and Panthers. Did we mention that? DeWitt, MI(11/07/2025): Friday evening, the DeWitt Panthers defeated the Linden Eagles 45-0 for the Division 3, Region 3 District 1 Championship. We turned the rain off mid-day so it will be dry with temperatures in the lower 50 headed to the mid-40s. Perfect early November evening for football. Linden took the opening kick off and did muster one first down. Their strategy was run the play clock down to a second or two before snapping the ball to slow the game down. They punted to DeWitt and the Panthers took over at the DeWitt 40. The Panthers started by grinding it out, smash mouth football, three yards and a cloud of dust (now it is 4.2 yards and a rug burn). Running this way and that way and some ways we could not follow at times, DeWitt went 60 yards in 13 plays and finished with sophomore Channing Ridley twisting and turning and bouncing off Eagles for a 15 yard touchdown. Vincent Rose did his usual thing with the extra point. 7-0 DeWitt. On the kickoff, Casey Flannery put a lick on the Eagle returner and caused a fumble that Parker Makela jumped on and set the table for the Panther offense with a short field. That led to a Rose 40 yard field goal, his fifth field goal of the season and third 40 yarder. Linden again slowed the game trying to limit the number of possessions for the DeWitt offense and took 11 plays to move 52 yards but turned it over on downs at the Panther 28. The Panther front five started to open up holes in the Linden front eight and in 4 plays DeWitt scored Moore on a 57 yard run by Trav. About eight Linden tacklers, a couple coaches and the water boy had shots on Trav but he bounced off all of them and sprinted the last 30 yards for the score. Rose. Again the defense forced a punt. Linden had trouble running up the middle with a trio of line backers, Everett Cooper, Cooper Chambers and Noah Deneen. Ok, we'll throw Lucas Brandell and Brendan Mensing in there as well, shutting down the run game of Linden. Meanwhile the Panther secondary was batting passes away like mosquitoes on a hot summer evening. DeWitt went 64 yards in 7 plays with Moore scoring one more on a 31 yard run. Rose. 24-0 DeWitt with 3:30 to play in the half. Following a poor Linden punt, DeWitt drove 27 yards to the 6 yard line. Linden Linebacker Landon Jones stepped in front of a Moore to Jacob Schorfhaar pass in the end zone and brought it out to the 15. Linden took a knee and it was 24-0 at the half. Linden kicked off the second half and as expected attempted an onside kick. Miller Wing pounced on it at the DeWitt 36. First play from scrimmage, Moore added another score by running 64 yards. That made the Linden hopes of a comeback dwindle a bit. Linden drove for a couple of first downs but turned it over at the Panther 38. The balloon deflated for the Eagles as Channing Ridley took the ball around the left end and once he turned the corner, no one would come close to catching him. 62 yards for another TD. Rose. DeWitt ran two plays in the third quarter, each for touchdowns. DeWitt added one more score with 3:30 to play with hard running Donovan Hillard knocking through the worn out Linden defense for an 11 yard run. Linden's sophomore QB Max Winder finished 8 for 29 passing and 62 yards and one interception, Ian Sosebee. Aiden Moore had 3 catches for 20 yards and Jason Shields 2 for 28. Drew Mainbrook had 14 carries for 43 yards. Moore led the Panthers with 196 yards rushing for 3 scores and Ridley 100 yards even for 2 scores. Hillard with 14 yards on five tough carries in the fourth quarter and one TD with Linden trying everything they could to strip the ball to cause a fumble. Tyler Bayshore continues to run hard with 26 yards and 5 carries. DeWitt ran for 332 yards on 34 carries. Moore was also 4 of 7 passing for 56 yards. Griffin Braman throws a really nice ball was 2 for 2 for 13 yards to shake off the eight man front Linden employed later in the game. Six different receivers caught passes, Schorfhaar a big 27 yarder in the first quarter to set up a TD, Jadon Bender one for 13, Caleb Hman one for 10, Lucius Cappelletti one for 7 yards and Landon Kurncz one for 6. You know what they say about defenses. The Panther secondary batted away 7 passes from Eagle receivers with Bender having two, Mensing, Brandell, Sosebee, Deneen, and Wing one each. Deneen had 6 tackles, Cooper 5, Chambers 4, Mensing 4, Braylon Wright-Moore 4 and Brandell 4. Next up for the Panthers, the regional championship next Friday evening at Memorial Stadium against Fenton.
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