Don't Miss This MHSAA Playoff Coverage

October 21, 2015

By John Johnson
MHSAA communications director 

There’s plenty of high school football coverage coming up with the final week of the regular season and the announcement of the qualifiers for the 41st annual MHSAA Football Playoffs on Sunday.

More than 15 football games this weekend – most of them live – will be streamed by students involved in the School Broadcast Program. The weekend concludes with the Selection Sunday Show on FOX Sports Detroit at 7 p.m. on Sunday (Oct. 25).

Among the live football games are several with league title and/or playoff qualifying implications:

  • Mio (3-5) at Lincoln Alcona (5-3)
  • Lapeer (8-0) at Davison (5-3)
  • Ortonville Brandon (5-3) at Holly (5-3)
  • New Lothrop (8-0) at Montrose (5-3)
  • Pickford (5-3) at Onaway (5-3)
  • Hudsonville (6-2) at Rockford (5-3) – Winner also gets a share of the O-K Red title
  • Pontiac Notre Dame Prep (7-1) vs. Detroit Loyola (6-2) – CHSL Prep Bowl Championship
  • Waterford Our Lady (8-0) vs. Riverview Gabriel Richard (6-2) – CHSL CD Championship
  • Orchard Lake St. Mary’s (6-1) vs. Warren DeLaSalle (6-2) – CHSL AB Championship

In its seventh year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events, with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics. 

The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.  

All sporting events – Live or On-Demand – are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online.  They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion.

Here’s the schedule of events School Broadcast Program members plan to stream this week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv. On-Demand listings may be available as soon as one hour following an event’s completion.  (List as of Oct. 20):

Tuesday – Oct. 20

Wednesday – Oct. 21

Thursday – Oct. 22

Friday – Oct. 23

Saturday – Oct. 24

Tuesday – Oct. 27

The Selection Sunday Show expands its coverage beyond FOX Sports Detroit’s cable footprint this year, being streamed for the first time on the FoxSportsDetroit.com website, and available to watch on mobile devices on the FOX Sports GO! app.

Justin White, Matt Shepard and Rob Rubick will provide the announcement of the pairings and analysis, and some live “look-ins” will take place at selected team watch gatherings.

Launching at Midnight every Friday throughout the season is MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on FOX Sports Detroit. Mickey York and Rob Rubick host the weekly 30-minute highlights show. The show will re-air most Saturday and Sunday mornings – and will be archived on the FOX Detroit Website.  This week, FFOT will re-air at 6 and 8:30 a.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. on Sunday on FOX Sports Detroit. 

The following games are scheduled to be highlighted this week on Football Friday Overtime:

  • Detroit Collegiate Prep vs. Detroit Central at Ford Field
  • Detroit Cass Tech vs. Detroit Martin Luther King at Ford Field
  • Utica Ford at Warren Mott
  • Marine City at Warren Cousino
  • Linden at Fenton
  • Ortonville-Brandon at Holly
  • PLUS – SBP Coverage of New Lothrop at Montrose and Hudsonville at Rockford.

This week's MHSAA.tv highlights package includes clips from the East Grand Rapids/Lowell and Marquette/Negaunee football games and a Detroit Catholic League boys soccer tournament final between Birmingham Brother Rice and Detroit Catholic Central.

Boys Soccer Tournament Kicks Off This Week with Openers on MHSAA.tv

By Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

October 12, 2021

The first round of District play for Lower Peninsula boys soccer teams kicks off Wednesday (Oct. 13) with more than 20 playoff games being broadcast this week on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network.

Among notable openers are a Division 1 matchup of Holt (9-6) at East Lansing (11-3-2), scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday. In Division 2, Coldwater (11-6-2) hosts Parma Western (7-5) in a 6 p.m. opener also Wednesday.

A pair of Tuesday (Oct. 12) matchups among ranked volleyball teams also highlights this week’s broadcast listings. Division 2 No. 2 Grand Rapids Christian hosts Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern at 6 p.m., and Division 1 No. 7 Novi travels to No. 8 Northville for a 6:30 p.m. match.

Week 8 of the football regular season will see more than 175 games broadcast on MHSAA.tv, plus a pair streamed by MHSAA media partners. This week’s Bally Sports Detroit live cable game features reigning Division 5 runner-up Frankenmuth (7-0) taking on Essexville Garber (5-2) in the Tri-Valley Conference, kicking off at 7 p.m. Friday (Oct. 15) on the Bally Sports Detroit PLUS channel as well as online and on the BSD app. State Champs! Sports Network will stream on its website Saturday’s 1 p.m. matchup between Detroit Loyola (3-3) and Detroit Country Day (4-2).

See below for links to a number of notable events on the Network this week:

FOOTBALL
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Montague at Whitehall
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Traverse City West at Marquette
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Three Rivers at Plainwell
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Mount Pleasant at Bay City Western
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Mancelona at Charlevoix
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice at Traverse City Central
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Birmingham Groves at Clarkston
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Royal Oak Shrine Catholic at Clarkston Everest Collegiate

VOLLEYBALL
Oct. 12, 6 p.m.: Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern at Grand Rapids Christian
Oct. 12, 6:30 p.m.: Negaunee at Calumet
Oct. 12, 6:30 p.m. Novi at Northville
Oct. 13, 5 p.m.: Cadillac at Traverse City Central
Oct. 14, 7 p.m.: Essexville Garber at Freeland
Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. Brown City at Ubly

BOYS SOCCER
Oct. 13, 6 p.m.: Parma Western at Coldwater
Oct. 13, 7 p.m.: Holt at East Lansing
Oct. 14, 6 p.m.: Plymouth at Canton
Oct. 15, 7 p.m.: Haslett at Mason

Click the links below to see all three sports’ listings in full:

Football VolleyballBoys Soccer

NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $10.99 per month. Subscribers have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. School Broadcast Program participants benefit as a portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.

More than 400 MHSAA member schools are participants in the School Broadcast Program, now in its 13th year, producing games using traditional hands-on student crews or via Pixellot cameras installed at stadiums and gymnasiums across the state. A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website.