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Week 1 preview: Grizzlies at Cougars

Lakeshore Grizzlies travel to Pinecrest Field, Pinecrest for the opening week of the 2026 season, kick-off Sunday 13 September at 17:00 UTC, live on Metro Sports.

Lakeshore Grizzlies finished the 2025 season 11-6 and took the 2nd seed in the Frontier. Pinecrest Cougars finished 8-9 and took the 4th seed.

The opening line has it at CHI -2.5 with a total of 46.5, which tells you the market is treating this as a home-field game rather than a mismatch.

What the box score does not carry is the personnel chess. Heavier packages early forced a matchup that never got fixed, and by the fourth quarter the adjustments were coming too late to matter.

Wade Holloway is in charge on the home sideline, with Bennett Ward opposite him. Week one form is famously unreliable, but the openers still set the tone for a division race that runs to January.

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