Sports · Tri-Cities
Grand Haven football falls 41-20 to Caledonia on senior night and heads to Grandville at 4-4
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — Caledonia scored 34 first-half points and beat Grand Haven 41-20 on Friday night at Grand Haven High School, spoiling the Buccaneers’ senior night and dropping them to 4-4 with one regular-season game left.
The Fighting Scots led 34-6 at halftime, according to the game recap posted on MaxPreps. The Bucs won the second half 14-7 but could not close the gap.
Grand Haven’s athletics calendar billed the 7 p.m. kickoff as Young Bucs Night, Senior Night and Bucs Pride Night.
Caledonia improved to 7-1. Its only loss came Oct. 9, when East Kentwood won 49-27 at Caledonia, according to season results compiled by Michigan Sports Radio.
The defeat snapped a two-game Grand Haven winning streak. The Bucs won 34-22 at Jenison on Oct. 2 and edged West Ottawa 41-40 at home a week later, the results show. Those wins followed a three-game September skid against Hudsonville, East Kentwood and Rockford.
Grand Haven opened the season 2-0, beating Spring Lake 35-34 in overtime and winning 17-14 at Muskegon Reeths-Puffer.
Next: The Bucs close the regular season at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, at Grandville, MaxPreps lists. Grandville is 3-5 after a 62-8 win at Jenison on Friday. A Grand Haven win would leave the Bucs 5-4. Caledonia hosts West Ottawa the same night.
Sources:
MaxPreps, “Football Recap: Grand Haven Now 2-1 Since Losing 3 Straight,” Oct. 17, 2026 (final, halftime score, records, next games), https://www.maxpreps.com/news/S6z8hgp4z0CtrFm4fadGBQ/football-recap-grand-haven-now-2-1-since-losing-3-straight.htm
Michigan Sports Radio, “Schedules and Scores 2026” (Grand Haven, Caledonia and Grandville season results and Oct. 23 opponents), https://michigansportsradio.com/football-schedules/
Grand Haven High School Athletics, “Football – Varsity: Caledonia High School,” event listing (7 p.m. kickoff, Young Bucs/Senior Night/Bucs Pride), https://www.ghbucsathletics.org/Event/62a83ab6-388c-48eb-ba96-c24dd694c424
Photo: 28392gh, “Grand Haven High School Football Field.jpg,” Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), cropped and color-adjusted, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Haven_High_School_Football_Field.jpg
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