Sports · Mid-Michigan
Unbeaten Mount Pleasant falls 31-29 at Traverse City West, with a home date with Midland ahead
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. — Mount Pleasant put a 6-0 record and first place in its league on the line Friday night, Oct. 9, at Traverse City West, the last road trip before the Oilers host Midland.
The Oilers were 4-0 in league play after beating Bay City Western 42-20 last week, according to MaxPreps. They had scored at least 23 points in every game and 222 in all, while giving up 100.
Mount Pleasant opened with nonleague wins over Saginaw Heritage, 23-13, and Saginaw United, 39-26. League play has gone the same way: 28-7 at Midland Dow, 35-20 over Traverse City Central and 55-14 at Bay City Central before the win over Western.
Traverse City West was 3-3 and 2-1 in the league. The Titans had scored plenty, 195 points, but had allowed 200, including 54 to Grand Blanc and 52 at Dow last week in a 52-24 loss.
The two teams share a pair of opponents. Mount Pleasant won 28-7 at Dow, the team that beat West by 28. West routed Traverse City Central 56-18; Mount Pleasant beat Central by 15. MaxPreps’ computer rankings listed Mount Pleasant 36th in the state and West 164th.
Mount Pleasant is home against Midland on Oct. 16 and visits Glenn on Oct. 23, according to MaxPreps. West hosts Bay City Western on Oct. 16, then visits Traverse City Central on Oct. 23.
Updated Oct. 12, 2026: Traverse City West won 31-29, MaxPreps results show, handing Mount Pleasant its first loss. The Oilers are 6-1 and 4-1 in the Saginaw Valley League North and still listed first in the division going into the Oct. 16 game with Midland; West is 4-3 and 3-1. 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, Mt. Pleasant Oilers football schedule and results, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/mt-pleasant/mt-pleasant-oilers/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, Traverse City West Titans football schedule and results, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/traverse-city/traverse-city-west-titans/football/schedule/
Prep Redzone, Mt. Pleasant vs. Bay City Western, Oct. 2, 2026, https://prepredzone.com/game/mi/mt-pleasant-vs-bay-city-western-october-2-2026/
Photo: Phoenix-Five, “Traverse City West Senior High School,” May 16, 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:Traverse_City_West_Senior_High_School.jpg
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