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St. Clair ends a two-game slide with a 61-0 shutout of Warren Woods-Tower as Algonac routs Eastpointe 72-24

High school football players in black and white and in yellow and white jerseys collide at the line of scrimmage on a lit field, with a crowd in the stands behind them.
South Lyon and South Lyon East line up during a 2022 MHSAA district playoff game, in a file photo. It does not show St. Clair, Woods-Tower, Algonac or Eastpointe. Photo: HisConn / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), altered; derivative under the same ShareAlike license.

ST. CLAIR, Mich. — St. Clair opened the football season with four straight wins, then lost its next two. Its chance to stop the skid came Friday, Oct. 9, against a Warren Woods-Tower team that had lost all four of its Macomb Area Conference Silver games.

The Saints (4-2, 3-1 MAC Silver) hosted the Titans (1-5, 0-4). MaxPreps standings listed St. Clair second in the division and Woods-Tower seventh.

St. Clair outscored its first four opponents 210-12, a run that included a 48-0 win at Eastpointe. Then came a home loss to Marine City on Sept. 25 and a 29-20 loss at Orchard View in a Saturday afternoon nonleague game on Oct. 3, MaxPreps records show.

Woods-Tower’s only win came Sept. 19, 39-24 over Livonia Clarenceville. It has lost its last two games, 20-6 to Clintondale and 42-20 to Center Line, and has been outscored 211-97 this season.

The schedules offer an uneven comparison. St. Clair won 56-0 at Hazel Park and 42-6 at Clintondale; Woods-Tower lost to Hazel Park 23-8 and to Clintondale by 14. Both have lost to Marine City, Woods-Tower 69-24 on the road.

St. Clair closes the regular season at Center Line on Oct. 16 and at home against Fraser on Oct. 23.

Farther down the river, Algonac (5-1, 3-1 MAC Bronze) hosted Eastpointe the same night. The Muskrats had won three straight, beating Clawson 58-13, Lincoln 48-0 and New Haven 40-29. Their only loss was 40-0 to Madison Heights Madison on Sept. 11.

Eastpointe (0-6, 0-4) has given up 338 points, about 56 a game, and has not scored more than 22 in any game, according to MaxPreps.

Madison (5-1, 4-0) led the Bronze and hosted Clawson that Friday. Algonac plays at Marine City on Oct. 16 and at Powers Catholic on Oct. 23.

Updated Oct. 12, 2026: St. Clair snapped its skid with a 61-0 shutout of Woods-Tower, and Algonac beat Eastpointe 72-24 for its fourth straight win, MaxPreps results show. The Saints are 5-2 and 4-1 in the Silver; the Muskrats are 6-1. Madison beat Clawson 50-7 to stay unbeaten in the Bronze at 5-0. Records above are as of the week of the games.

Updated Oct. 13, 2026: The headline and summary were changed to report the result of the game this story previewed.

Sources:
MaxPreps, St. Clair varsity football 2026 schedule and results, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/st-clair/st-clair-saints/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, Warren Woods-Tower varsity football 2026 schedule and results, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/warren/warren-woods-tower-titans/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, Algonac varsity football 2026 schedule and results, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/algonac/algonac-muskrats/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, Eastpointe varsity football 2026 schedule and results, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/eastpointe/eastpointe-shamrocks/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, Madison Heights Madison varsity football 2026 schedule and results, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/madison-heights/madison-eagles/football/schedule/
Photo: HisConn, “SLHS and SLEHS faceoff 102822,” Oct. 28, 2022, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), cropped and color-corrected; derivative under the same ShareAlike license, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SLHS_and_SLEHS_faceoff_102822.jpg

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