Forest Hills Northern wins its homecoming 21-19 over Reeths-Puffer

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Reeths-Puffer was the visiting team at Forest Hills Northern’s homecoming on Friday night, Oct. 9, in a game that figured to sort out the middle of the Ottawa-Kent Conference Green.

Both teams are 1-2 in the division, according to MaxPreps, which lists Northern fourth and the Rockets fifth. The game was played at Forest Hills Northern High School, 3801 Leonard St. NE, the school district’s calendar shows.

Reeths-Puffer is 3-3 overall and has outscored opponents 160-138. The Rockets opened with a 56-7 win over Greenville, lost 17-14 to Grand Haven and won 28-21 at Northview. League play has been harder: they lost 45-14 at Muskegon and 42-13 at home to Mona Shores before beating Union 35-6 last Friday.

Northern is 2-4 and has been outscored 169-154. Two of its losses came by a touchdown or less, 28-21 at Forest Hills Eastern and 34-31 at Jenison. The Huskies beat Forest Hills Central 41-21 and Union 37-0, but lost 56-17 to Byron Center and 30-7 at Muskegon last week.

The two teams have lined up against two of the same league opponents with similar results. Both handled Union. Both lost at Muskegon, Reeths-Puffer by 31 and Northern by 23.

Neither schedule gets easier. Reeths-Puffer hosts Byron Center on Oct. 16 and plays at Whitehall on Oct. 23. Northern visits first-place Mona Shores on Oct. 16, then hosts Northview, a team the Rockets beat in September.

Updated Oct. 12, 2026: Forest Hills Northern won its homecoming game 21-19, MaxPreps results show. The Rockets fell to 3-4 and 1-3 in the OK Green; Northern is 3-4 and 2-2. Records above are as of the week of the game.

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

Sources:
MaxPreps, Reeths-Puffer Rockets varsity football schedule and results, 2026, accessed Oct. 8, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/muskegon/reeths-puffer-rockets/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, Forest Hills Northern Huskies varsity football schedule and results, 2026, accessed Oct. 8, 2026, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/grand-rapids/forest-hills-northern-huskies/football/schedule/
Forest Hills Public Schools calendar, “HOMECOMING Football vs Reeths-Puffer HS,” Oct. 9, 2026, https://www.fhps.net/calendar/football-vs-reeths-puffer-hs/
Photo: Michael Barera, “Lone Oak vs. Commerce football 2017 04 (Lone Oak on offense),” Sept. 1, 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:Lone_Oak_vs._Commerce_football_2017_04_(Lone_Oak_on_offense).jpg

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