Grand Ledge football wins CAAC Blue outright, beating DeWitt 28-14, and can finish 9-0 against Bedford

GRAND LEDGE, Mich. — Grand Ledge is one win from its first unbeaten regular season since 2015 after beating DeWitt 28-14 on Friday night to win the Capital Area Activities Conference Blue Division outright, the Lansing State Journal reported.

The Comets (8-0, 6-0 CAAC Blue) close the regular season at home against Temperance Bedford (7-1) at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, according to Bedford’s schedule.

Friday’s win was Grand Ledge’s first over DeWitt since a 56-49 shootout in 2022, and it gave coach Joe Brya’s team its first league title since that season, according to the State Journal.

It did not start well. Grand Ledge lost a fumble on the opening kickoff, and DeWitt began its first drive in Comets territory. Coleman VanFossen ended that threat with an interception. He later recovered a DeWitt fumble, and Grand Ledge scored touchdowns after both takeaways. VanFossen also made a key catch on a second-half scoring drive, the newspaper reported.

Ashton Delaney scored a first-quarter touchdown for Grand Ledge, and Caedin Martin-Seymour answered with a second-quarter score for DeWitt, according to the State Journal’s game photos.

Anthony Baker finished it. With Grand Ledge ahead 21-14 and facing third-and-11 near midfield with just under two minutes left, Baker broke free down the sideline for a 58-yard touchdown run with 1:54 to play. He ran for 71 yards and two scores.

“We’re great. We’re not good anymore, we’re (a) great (team),” VanFossen told the State Journal. “We can make a deep run in the playoffs and people will know who we are.”

DeWitt (6-2, 4-1) had won 21 straight league games. Its last CAAC loss before Friday came against East Lansing in Week 4 of the 2023 season. The Panthers finish the regular season against Okemos (5-3), the State Journal reported.

Bedford comes to Grand Ledge off its first loss. Saline beat the Kicking Mules 35-21 on Friday in Temperance after leading 28-7 through three quarters, according to the MaxPreps box score. Bedford, coached by Dave Mifsud, had opened 7-0 with wins that included Ann Arbor Pioneer, Dexter and Ann Arbor Huron, according to its posted results.

Sources:
Brian Calloway, “Four downs from Grand Ledge football topping DeWitt for CAAC Blue title,” Lansing State Journal (via Yahoo Sports), Oct. 16, 2026, https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/four-downs-grand-ledge-football-023558401.html
Prep Redzone, “Grand Ledge vs DeWitt – October 16, 2026” (final score and records), https://prepredzone.com/game/mi/grand-ledge-vs-dewitt-october-16-2026/
MaxPreps, “Saline vs Bedford,” football box score, Oct. 16, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/football/game/bedford-temperance-vs-saline/10-16-2026/?c=59c52af4-da4d-46f6-bd02-b44179070813
“2026 Bedford Kicking Mules Football Schedule / Results,” joeeitel.com, accessed Oct. 18, 2026, https://joeeitel.com/hsfoot/teams.jsp?teamID=11676&year=2026
Photo: Michael Barera, “Highland Park vs. Royse City football 2017 27 (Highland Park on offense).jpg,” Nov. 3, 2017, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), cropped and color-adjusted, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Highland_Park_vs._Royse_City_football_2017_27_(Highland_Park_on_offense).jpg

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