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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(11/15/2025): Friday evening the DeWitt Panthers defeated the Fenton Tigers for the regional championship game, 70-26. With the win, DeWitt will play Warren De La Salle on Saturday the 22nd, most likely at 1:00 at a site yet to be determined. We will know in Monday's update. Warren De La Salle Collegiate defeated Detroit Martin Luther King 38-20 for the Division 3 Semi-Final appearance. On the other side of the Division 3 bracket, Lowell defeated Zeeland West 36-34 and Mt. Pleasant defeated East Grand Rapids 28-14. The winner of the Lowell vs Mt. Pleasant semi-final will meet the winner of the DeWitt vs Warren De La Salle Collegiate for the Division 3 state final game to be played Sunday, November 30 at 12:30 at Ford Field Well. Wow. We told you it would be a heck of a game, twice. Must have been the blue haze before the game that added to it. 1,098 yards of offense by the two teams. PLUS, 418 yards of kick off returns. 14 touchdowns. 43 first downs. DeWitt 523 yards rushing. Fenton 384 passing yards. 42 combined points in first quarter, 75 combined points at half time. Last year at the half time of Hurricane, WV game, there were 70 combined points and 799 yards of offense. Last night at half time of the Fenton game, 75 combined points and 776 yards of offense. PLUS 355 yards combined kick off returns. We did say at HALF TIME, right? If you came to see a defensive struggle, well, sorry. Classic. DeWitt 107 yards passing. Fenton 108 rushing. A run team vs a pass team. And quite a show they put on. Fenton received the opening kickoff and returned it to their 29. First play, a hitch and go pass from Fenton QB Noah Sheil to Landon Becker. 71 yard TD pass and run. You should have heard to radio announcer from WHMI. Reminiscent of Bob Ufer. Who? Look him up. He was a floor below us and you'd think he was right behind us. Yep, pretty excited. On the ensuing kickoff, Channing Ridley, back on kick off returns, took it at the 9 yard line and with some great blocks and after burners returned it for a TD. Yup, Ufer again. All square. DeWitt forced a Fenton punt, and the wing flew.. well, figuratively speaking. It chewed up chunks of Memorial Stadium rug. 6 plays and 64 yards later, Trav Moore scored on a one yard run. 14-7. A defensive turnover on downs and the Panthers had a short field. 49 yards in 3 plays with Ridley catching a swing pass and made it to the end zone for a 30 pass and run. 21-7 with 4:00 to play in first quarter. Fenton then drove 69 yards in six plays with Sheil slinging it all over the field. The Tigers were on the Panther 22 yard line and Sheil dropped back to pass and saw a an opening up the middle and took it straight up the field for the TD run. 21-14 DeWitt with 2:44 to play in first quarter. On the ensuing kickoff, Jadon Bender told Ridley "hey, let me take this one". And he did. Catching it at the one yard line (had he caught it at goal line, it would have been a touch back) he shot up the DeWitt sideline and with great blocking and his speed, a 99 yard kickoff return. 28-14. The second quarter saw quite a bit of scoring but more conventional. The Panthers held Fenton on two drives forcing punts but DeWitt continued to drive and score. Donovan Hillard had a 14 yard run for a TD, Tyler Bayshore a 7 yard run. Sheil directed a sweet 89 yard drive in 7 plays with him rushing it in from the 7. Fenton decided to pooch kick from there on out on their kickoffs. Moore answered with a 54 yard TD run that left WHMI kind of speechless and awestruck. Sheil directed an 11 play 67 yard drive with a 4 yard pass to twin Rory Sheils with a few seconds to play in the second quarter to make it 49-26 at the half. Wow... what a half of football. At the half, WHMI talked about holding DeWitt on the first series of the second half and with momentum gained from the last TD just before the half, get back into the game. Umm... Ridley took care of that thought with a 67 yard TD run on the first play of the third quarter. Fenton moved the ball 30 yards on their drive but lost the ball when Miller Wing recovered a fumble at the DeWitt 39. Caedin Martin-Seymour, on the first play after the fumble, streaked 61 yards up the middle for a TD. 63-26 DeWitt in the third quarter. The next Fenton series ended when Lucas Brandell made his 7th interception of the season. Griffin Braman directed next year's offense 63 yards in 13 plays taking up 9:14 of the 4th quarter with Dekan Dowdy blasting it in from 7 yards out. Sheil was probably the best QB we saw all season, completing 20 of 39 passes for 384 yards and 2 TDs spread amongst 5 different receivers. His brother Rory hauled in nine of those passes for 165 yards and a TD. Sheils also rushed for 95 yards on 12 carries and two TDs. The Panthers were led by Moore with 186 yards rushing on 15 carries, Ridley 7 for 145 yards and Hillard 87 in 10 carries. DeWitt had 7 rushing scores. Jacob Schorfhaar had 3 receptions for 44 yards, Ridley 2 receptions for 40 yards and Bender and Landon Kurncz one each. Vincent Rose was perfect on all 10 extra points. Braylon Wright-Moore had 5 tackles and a batted pass, Cooper Chambers, Noah Deneen and Brandell four tackles. Griffin Braman had three tackles and a two batted passes as the Panthers swatted away five Sheil passes. Brendan Mensing (SMUK) and Everett Cooper each had a sack. The 26 points scored by Fenton was the third highest scored against DeWitt this season. Westland scored 28 and Mason 37 earlier in the season. Next week, Warren De La Salle.
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