Sports · Midland
Sanford Meridian blanks Harrison’s offense in 42-14 Jack Pine clincher
MIDLAND, Mich. — Sanford Meridian took a share of the Jack Pine Conference Division 2 championship Friday with a 42-14 win over Harrison, the Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Bay & Thumb headline for Week 6.
The Mustangs are 6-0. MHSAA.com said Meridian could win the title outright the next week against Beaverton. The review praised Meridian’s defense as much as the offense — Harrison entered averaging 44.8 points per game.
Midland Dow also had a big night, beating Traverse City West 52-24. MHSAA.com said the Chargers (4-2) stayed one game behind Saginaw Valley League North leader Mount Pleasant and handed West (3-3) its first league defeat.
The Midland Daily News coverage was cited by MHSAA.com for Meridian-Harrison detail. Selection Sunday is Oct. 25, with three regular-season weeks then left for Dow and Meridian to firm up playoff seeding.
Updated Oct. 12, 2026: Meridian beat Beaverton 55-0 on Oct. 9, MaxPreps results show, the win MHSAA.com had said would give the Mustangs the Jack Pine Division 2 title outright. Meridian is 7-0 and 4-0 in the division and plays Gladwin on Oct. 16. Records above are as of the week of the game.
Sources:
MaxPreps, Sanford Meridian Mustangs 2026 football schedule and results, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/sanford/meridian-mustangs/football/schedule/
MHSAA.com, “1st & Goal: 2026 Week 6 Review,” Oct. 5, 2026, https://www.mhsaa.com/sports/football/stories/1st-goal-2026-week-6-review
Detroit Free Press rankings via Livingston Daily (Mount Pleasant, related SVL context), Oct. 4, 2026, https://www.livingstondaily.com/story/sports/high-school/2026/10/04/michigan-high-school-football-rankings-each-division/92058245007/
Photo: Michael Barera, “Highland Park vs. Royse City football 2017 26 (Royse City on offense),” Nov. 3, 2017, 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:Highland_Park_vs._Royse_City_football_2017_26_(Royse_City_on_offense).jpg
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