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DeWittFootball.org is looking for photographers for the Freshmen, Junior Varsity and Varsity levels. You will be given field access to get some spectacular pictures. We will give you access to the DeWitt Football Picture Site to add your pictures each week. If you are interested, please send us a note through the DeWitt Football Touchdown Facebook page or contact us at info@DeWittFootball.org . |
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Spectator Information: Gates open at 6:00pm 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. 2026 Football Playoffs will be changed a bit this season with seeding of the district and regional games. The districts and regionals are still by area assignments. Please read Geoff Kimmerly's article on the football changes and other changes to sports.  For those that attended the Panther's game at Wayne State Thursday evening, and there were many, did you recognize the PA announcer? If you have been to a Tigers game at Comerica Park this season, he may have sounded familiar. It was Zach Linfield. He is the public address announcer at Comerica. Mike and I had a nice visit with him before the game and at halftime. We tried to get him to tell us what is up with the Tigers as of late, but he stayed true to his team and said only positive things about them. We heard a few of his high school stories from Hartland High School and we bragged a bit about our Panthers. |
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And the outcome was perfect. The 2026 Panthers, with 16 new starters, defeated Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills Knights in fairly impressive fashion with a 59-21 victory. The Panthers rolled up 525 total yards with 419 on the ground on 49 attempts (8.6 yards per carry). No Moore. Five backs had 50 yards or more rushing that kept the Knight defense guessing most of the evening. An example was the first play of the game. Caedin Martin-Seymour (CM-S) returned the opening kick off 35 yards to the DeWitt 39. The first play, Griffin Braman faked a handoff to Channing Ridley headed left with much of the Knight defense swarming him. Braman kept it going right and went untouched for 61 yards for the first TD of the season. Kenowa Hills first series, on a first down from the Knights 34, Donovan Hillard had a strip sack, a fumble, on Knights' QB Grayson Fellows. However, the Panthers were unable to capitalize on that turnover, but it set a tone. The next series, DeWitt settled for a 36 yard Vincent Rose field goal. Kenowa Hills scored on a drive 80 yards on seven plays and Lundon Hampton rushed for 3 yards for the score. 10-7 after the first quarter. The second quarter saw Channing Ridley score the first of his three touchdowns on the evening on a 3 yard run. The Knights' Fellows connected with Noah Kilts for 71 yards on a pass to set up Hampton's 15 yard touchdown run late in the second, their last of the half. The young Panthers responded with a 10 play, 80 yard drive in just under three minutes with Ridley's second score, a one yard run to make it 24-14 at the half. The Panthers showed a number of miscues in the second quarter that needed tightened up. The third quarter started with the Panther defense holding Knights to a three and out. Ridley capped a 9 play 53 yard drive with a 5 yard run. After the Panther score, Kenowa Hills did move the ball 49 yards in 4 plays with Fellows hitting William Fussman with a pretty 29 yard post pattern TD pass with 4+ minutes to play in the third quarter. After that, the Panther defense got stronger.The 4th quarter the defense held the Knights to 2 yards of offense with three turnovers while the Panther offense "second team" was eager to get playing time and ripping holes in the tired Knight defense by scoring 3 times, two by Donovan Hillard, on a pair of 13 yards and Nash Sosebee was shot out of cannon for a 40 yard run with two minutes to play. The defense capped the cool evening a hot interception and 9 yard "pick six" by Liam Thoman. The Knights mustered only 52 yards of offense in the second half. Caleb Nolen led the defense with 8 tackles and an interception. Dexter Dodds, Jackson MItchell, Joe Bobeda, Tyler Bayshore and Krew Koutsoubus each had four tackles. The Braska's, Landen and Gavin had a sack. Casey Flannery a pair of batted passes. They held UM commit Lundon Hampton to 69 yards on 14 attempts. He did have two touchdown runs. The Panther's rushing attack was led by Brayman with 129 yards, CM-S with 92, Ridley 65,Hillard 52, Sosebee 52, Landon Kurncz had two catches for 42 yards. Rose had the field goal and 8 of 8 with extra points. The Detroit Sports Commission, organizers of the event, named Hillard the Ironman for DeWitt and Braman the Most Outstanding Player The Panther Junior Varsity won their game at Kenowa Hills on Wednesday 20-0 while the Freshmen won a squeaker 14-12.
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