Mason Bulldogs All Alumni Reunions

10/20/2026

Soccer falls to Eastern in the district semi. Go Bulldogs!

10/20/2026

We don’t do season awards.

Best player? Best play? Best team? Best game? We can’t because we don’t see every game or every team. That wouldn’t be fair.

But what we do is celebrate moments.

What were the best moments? That’s different to each of you. Your kid. Your team. Your memory.

What were my favorite memories of the past year?

Now that’s a question I can answer…

…showing up to Dansville football and watching them lose. Then watching again and they lost again. I wanted to be there so badly to see them break the winless streak. Then with the last game of the season we decided to make it our game of the week. Win or lose we were going to celebrate. Then as the game wound down and the realization set in that they were going to win my friend turned to me in the broadcast booth and said to me “…this is like being in a movie” because it was. Hollywood couldn’t have recreated that feeling. Not in any ending imagineable.

…watching the pure eruption of elation from a Lansing Catholic girls 4x400 team reach a mark that they believed in but was not something they truly believed was possible. Until it was. The sound they made when they realized their time was one Ill never forget.

…watching a pole vaulter in Grand Ledge lunge as high as she could go higher than any girl could but falling just short…the look on her face in that moment was not a look of failure but one of inevitability. Because it was.

…being in the hottest basketball gym both literally and figuratively to watch the best rivals in all the land go at each other one more time. Where Mr. Basketball took on the hometown Warriors in the loudest gym I’d been in. It wasn’t the score. Or the players. Or the moments of the game. It was the atmosphere that was unforgettable.

…the night I listened to an Eastern soccer player practically beg his coach for the postgame interview. Which he got. And as he beamed in front of my camera a star was born. Ended up being one of the most viewed videos of the year.

…the realization in her eyes as we walked off the lacrosse field. One of my childrens last teammates. A player who I have watched grow as a teammate, classmate and superstar. It was the look in her eyes when I said “…I don’t think I’ll see you again after this”. Four years and a million moments closed in that memory. Bittersweet, but unmistakably memorable.

Now as I try to pick out my favorites the memories start to blur as if spun on a wheel. The trophies. The hugs. The beaming parents. The tangled cords. The hoarse throat but one remains above all else…

…the Diamond Classic.

Theres a backstory to our Classic broadcasts this year that isn’t public. I wasn’t supposed to be there. The Herald wasn’t supposed to be there. But as fate would have it I was. And what I got to be a part of was such a culmination of emotions.

Mason embraced the Herald when I first created it. Not many schools did. I was there with a microphone postgame when no one else bothered. Then the football glory years took hold and we went all the way to Ford Field together. And back again and again over and over from soccer to basketball to track to baseball to the ice rink and on and on. Mason Mason Mason. I oft joke with Mrs. The Lansing Herald that I swear all our backroads roads must lead to Mason.

So here I was back upstairs again at MSU for the Diamond Classic. And down on the field below me was Mason.

The Bulldogs won and then won again. Then after the final out of the final game they stood as first time champions.

Forever etched in history.

When I packed up the equipment I stopped just to watch the scene below me. There were almost no broadcasts of the Diamond Classic this year and by golly would I have been broken hearted if I missed this moment. I had to be there. Correction. I got to be there. So there at the end I breathed a deep sigh of gratitude because, as it often does I was put in the place where I was supposed to be.

For all the memories.

…and I can’t wait to start anew because who knows what story will unfold.

Life is good.
And I will see you soon.

-GD

10/20/2026

10/20/2026

Key Points
Grand Ledge defeated DeWitt to win the outright CAAC Blue title.
The win by Grand Ledge and a loss by Mason have caused shifts in the latest rankings.
The Grand Ledge football team picked up its best win of the season Friday, taking down DeWitt to wrap up the outright CAAC Blue title.

And the Comets securing their first league title since 2022 coupled with a narrow loss by previously unbeaten Mason has led to some movement in our latest area rankings.

Here's a look at our ranking of Greater Lansing teams heading into the final week of the regular season.

Big school (Divisions 1-5)
1. Grand Ledge (Division 1, 8-0)
2. Mason (Division 3, 7-1)
3. Portland (Division 4, 8-0)
4. DeWitt (Division 3, 6-2)
5. Lakewood (Division 5, 7-1)
6. St. Johns (Division 4, 6-2)
7. Sexton (Division 4, 5-3)
8. Williamston (Division 4, 5-3)
9. East Lansing (Division 2, 3-5)
10. Okemos (Division 1, 5-3)

Small school (Division 6 through 8-player)
1. Pewamo-Westphalia (Division 7, 7-0)
2. Ithaca (Division 7, 8-0)
3. Portland St. Patrick (8-man Division 2, 8-0)
4. Dansville (8-man Division 1, 7-1)
5. Fowler (Division 8, 6-2)
6. Saranac (Division 7, 6-2)
7. Fulton (8-man Division 1 5-3)
8. Olivet (Division 6, 5-3)
9. Ovid-Elsie (Division 6, 4-4)
10. Leslie (Division 7, 4-4)

See our rankings of MHSAA football teams in Greater Lansing after Week 8.

10/18/2026

Don’t forget next Thursday is Marco’s Pizza Day!! 🍕

10/18/2026

The highlights from Week 8 football games featuring Greater Lansing teams. See link below ⬇️

📸 Al Goldis | For the Lansing State Journal

10/18/2026

10/18/2026

Our extended area football scoreboard - week 8 results; brought to you in part by Robert Dowding Group - Keller Williams Realty.

CAAC
Grand Ledge 28 DeWitt 14
East Lansing 35 Everett 7
Waverly 35 Holt 34
Haslett 21 Okemos 11
Portland 21 Charlotte 0
Eastern 14 DU PSM 0
Fowlerville 21 Pinckney 13
Williamston 53 Hamtramck 6
Lakewood 31 Olivet 21
Lans Catholic 28 Ionia 22
Sexton 42 Eaton Rapids 7
Hastings 54 Mason 49
St Johns 55 Ga***rd 7

CMAC
Grayling 42 Bath 0
Saranac 51 Carson CC 0
Ithaca 35 Fowler 0
Perry 38 IAF 12
Sag MLS 35 Laingsburg 0

Cascades
Napoleon 56 Leslie 18
Jonesville 58 Grass Lake 24
Michigan Center 33 Brooklyn CC 14
Vandercook Lake 50 Addison 15

Flint Metro
Corunna 28 Flushing 14
Clio 34 Flint Kearsley 12
Linden 49 Ortonville Brandon 14
Lake Fenton 29 Swartz Creek 28

Tri Valley
Ithaca 35 Fowler 0
Bay City JG 35 Alma 21
Freeland 63 Bridgeport 0
Carrollton 40 SH PC 12
Caro 17 Essexville Garber 7
Hemlock 49 White Cloud 0
Frankenmuth 41 Sag SV 22
Sag VL 42 Tawas 0

Big 8
Springport 27 Quincy 22
Homer 60 East Jax 0
Maple Valley 42 Stockbridge 6
Union City 20 Centreville 0

8 Man
Blanchard Montabella 36 Morrice 0
Dansville 27 Coleman 18
Portland St Pat 63 St Charles 31
Potterville 33 Holton 16
Byron 70 Memphis 36

Photo: The Lansing Herald