Basketball Finals Tickets On Sale

March 6, 2017

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

Tickets for the Michigan High School Athletic Association Girls and Boys Basketball Finals are on sale from the Jenison Field House Ticket Office.

All-session tickets for both events can be ordered online by clicking hereAll-session tickets also can be ordered by calling (517) 355-1610 or by visiting Jenison Field House. Single-session tickets will go on sale March 8.

Girls Semifinals tickets cost $8 per session, with a $3 service charge then applied to each order. Finals tickets cost $10 per session with the $3 service charge then applied (only one service charge is applied if Semifinals and Finals tickets are purchased together). All girls basketball tickets are for general admission. The Girls Basketball Semifinals are March 16-17, with all four Finals on March 18.

 

Boys Semifinals tickets also cost $8 per session plus the $3 service charge and $10 per Finals session plus the service charge. Boys Basketball Semifinals and Finals tickets are reserved in Breslin Center’s lower bowl, with general admission for the upper deck. The Boys Basketball Semifinals are March 23-24, with all four Finals on March 25.

 

For both the Girls and Boys Semifinals, each session includes both games for one class. There are two Finals sessions; the Class D and A championship games are one session, and the second includes the Class C and B championship games.

Moment: Rouge Ends '60s with 6 Titles

April 16, 2020

By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor

After three years without a championship, River Rouge returned to the Class B Final in 1969 and won its sixth title of the 1960s by defeating Kalamazoo Hackett 83-50.

The Panthers finished 25-2 for the season, and the championship began another string of four straight that concluded in 1972.

Rouge dominated the 1969 Final led by 6-foot-4, 250-pound forward Dwayne Johnson (reaching for the rim in bottom photo), who scored 23 points. Teammate Rod Wimphrey added 16 points, but more importantly held Hackett's Bob Calligton to nine. Calligton had scored 31 points in Hackett's Semifinal win one night earlier.

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