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Grand Blanc blows out Davison to win Saginaw Valley football title; Fenton gives Goodrich 21-20 scare in Mertro League championship game

BY MIKE KILLLBREATH

CCN Executive Editor

(CCN) — Neighboring prep football powerhouses Grand Blanc High and Goodrich High celebrated league championships and stayed perfect in prep football by moving to perfect 8-0 records.

Goodrich's Saturday night (Oct. 18, 2025) battle in the Metro League championship game extended into Sunday when lightn

BY MIKE KILLLBREATH

CCN Executive Editor

(CCN) — Neighboring prep football powerhouses Grand Blanc High and Goodrich High celebrated league championships and stayed perfect in prep football by moving to perfect 8-0 records.

Goodrich's Saturday night (Oct. 18, 2025) battle in the Metro League championship game extended into Sunday when lightning caused a postponement after more than an hour delay when officials stopped the action early in the opening quarter amidst a torrential downpour of rain that drenched the Metro Flint regional area.

Goodrich blocked an extra point to beat Fenton 21-20 to win the Metro League championship game in a rematch of last year's finale when the Martians prevailed 42-3 en route to their Division 4 state championship run.

Grand Blanc's varsity team was greeted by the biggest crowd since 1999 in the annals of local prep football history on Friday night (Oct. 17, 2025) at Don Batchelor Stadium. And they didn't disappointment the mostly Grand Blanc fans on

It was 1999 when more than 10,000 fans packed into the school's old football field but even more squeezed into the new stadium this time to watch the Bobcats blast arch rival Davison 57-29.

Maybe it was the stadium's new, gigantic LED electronic video scoreboard that made the difference for this battle of unbeatens. The Bobcats lost a 28-27 heartbreaker to Flint Carman-Ainsworth when losing out on a championship in the old Big Nine Conference in the most memorable late-season showdown of area heavyweight unbeaten combatants.

Davison was ranked ahead of Grand Blanc in last week's Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 poll by statewide coaches. The Cardinals were No 5, Grand Blanc No. 6.

Both were unbeaten Saginaw Valley opponents in last year's late season showdown, too.

Many were anticipating a repeat of that exciting showdown and the contest attracted fans from around the area.

But there would be no close game this time.

Coach Kaleb Forr's Bobcats tried to short-circuit the area's most impressive scoreboard at the new $44 million Grand Blanc Athletic Complex which also features a new athletic center and a swimming pool.

Forr's Bobcats beat Davison in a 55-49 barnburner at Davison to win the 2024 Saginaw Valley title but it was no contest this time around.

They got off to a fast start in the showdown of perfect 7-0 teams by jumping out to a 35-3 lead before Davison's Jaxson Dosh put the Cardinals into the end zone on a TD pass to give his team a flicker of hope late in the second quarter as they went into the locker room at halftime..

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Hundreds in Flint Twp. join No King protest movement across America to oppose Donald Trump policies

BY ANA JONES

CCN News Writer

FLINT TWP. (CCN) — Hundreds in Flint Township turned out for a peaceful "No Kings" protest on Saturday (Oct. 18, 2025).

Motorists in vehicles along Linden Road honked their horns for a few hours to show support for the group who oppose the policies of President Donald Trump's administration. They turned out with

BY ANA JONES

CCN News Writer

FLINT TWP. (CCN) — Hundreds in Flint Township turned out for a peaceful "No Kings" protest on Saturday (Oct. 18, 2025).

Motorists in vehicles along Linden Road honked their horns for a few hours to show support for the group who oppose the policies of President Donald Trump's administration. They turned out with creative signs and dressed in costumes.

Dewaun Robinson, President of Flint's chapter of Black Lives Matter, used a megaphone to thank residents for coming out to show their displeasure with Trump.

The Flint Township event was one of a dozen scattered around the state.

It was the second time a No Kings protest

It was billed as a national Day of Action by organizers who planned the rallies across the country to protest what they describe as the "growing authoritarianism of the Trump-administration" since he took office in January.

It was anticipated to be one of the largest single-day protests in modern history with millions of people participating in more than 2,600 events across the USA.

Republican lawmakers in Michigan and in Washington D.C. have been criticizing the "No Kings" movement, some even blaming it for the government shutdown. Organizers countered the event was announced in September, nearly a month before the shutdown began Oct. 1.

Events are also highlighting what organizers say is a crackdown on free speech by the Trump administration.

Jaime Contreras, executive vice president of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, another group supporting the protests, said the United States belongs to working people, not billionaires.

"We're saying 'yes' to health care for all and child care for all, 'yes' to strong unions, 'yes' to immigrant justice, and 'yes' to a democracy that works for the people who actually make this country run every day," Contreras outlined.

He emphasized the "No Kings" events are committed to nonviolence, noting they have been organized in partnership with local groups and supported by trained marshals and community safety teams.

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