Sports · Up North
Traverse City Central, winless on the road, falls 27-21 at Bay City Western
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Traverse City Central had not won away from home this football season. It got another chance on Friday, Oct. 9, at Bay City Western, a team still looking for its first league win.
The Trojans were 3-3 overall and 1-2 in league play, according to MaxPreps. All three wins have come at home: 55-22 over Novi, 28-14 over Thurston and, last Friday, 21-14 over Midland for their first league victory.
Their losses include both road games, 54-28 at Davison and 35-20 at Mount Pleasant, and a 30-27 home loss to Dow on Sept. 25.
Western was 2-4 and 0-3 in the league. The Warriors’ two wins came on the road against nonleague opponents, 38-0 at Saginaw United and 57-22 at Carman-Ainsworth. They had lost at Linden and Mount Pleasant and at home to Midland and Dow.
The teams share three opponents. Central beat Midland by seven; Western lost to the Chemics 25-23. Central lost to Dow by three; Western lost to the Chargers by 14. Both lost at Mount Pleasant, Central by 15 and Western by 22.
Central had scored 179 points and allowed 169. After Friday, the Trojans play one more league road game on Oct. 16 and then close the regular season at home against Traverse City West on Oct. 23.
Updated Oct. 12, 2026: Bay City Western won 27-21, MaxPreps results show, for its first league win. The Warriors are 3-4 and 1-3 in the Saginaw Valley League North; Central, still winless on the road, is 3-4 and 1-3. 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, Traverse City Central Trojans 2026 football schedule and results, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/traverse-city/traverse-city-central-trojans/football/schedule/
MaxPreps, Bay City Western Warriors 2026 football schedule and results, https://www.maxpreps.com/mi/auburn/bay-city-western-warriors/football/schedule/
Photo: Phoenix-Five, “Traverse City Central High School,” November 12, 2020, 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_Central_High_School.jpg
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