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
- Lansing Eastern vs. Haslett – MHSAA Boys Soccer District – 5 p.m. – On Demand
- Gladstone at Marquette – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Au Gres-Sims at Rogers City – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- DeWitt vs. East Lansing – MHSAA Boys Soccer District – 7 p.m. – On Demand
Wednesday – Oct. 21
- Bay City John Glenn at Pinconning – Girls Volleyball – 6:30 p.m. – On Demand
- DeWitt at Haslett – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
Thursday – Oct. 22
- St. Johns at Haslett – Girls Swimming & Diving – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Sparta at Comstock Park – JV Football – 6:30 p.m. – LIVE
- Ishpeming Westwood at Negaunee – JV Football – 6:30 p.m. – On Demand
- Mio at Rogers City – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
Friday – Oct. 23
- Mio at Lincoln Alcona – Football – 7 p.m. - LIVE
- Gladstone at Calumet – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Comstock Park at Sparta – Football – 7 p.m. - LIVE
- Lapeer at Davison – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Okemos at East Lansing – Football – 7 p.m. – On Demand
- Ortonville Brandon at Holly – Football – 7 p.m. - LIVE
- New Lothrop at Montrose – Football – 7 p.m. - LIVE
- Pickford at Onaway – 8-Player Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Otsego at Plainwell – Football – 7 p.m. - LIVE
- Hudsonville at Rockford – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Atlanta at Rogers City – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
Saturday – Oct. 24
- Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Detroit Loyola – Football – 1 p.m. - LIVE
- Waterford Our Lady vs. Riverview Gabriel Richard – Football – 4 p.m. - LIVE
- Orchard Lake St. Mary’s vs. Warren DeLaSalle – Football 7 p.m. – LIVE
Tuesday – Oct. 27
- Hancock at Calumet – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. - LIVE
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.
Pixellot Games Dominate MHSAA TV
September 12, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
The beauty of MHSAA member schools utilizing Pixellot to live stream video of home athletic events really shows this week, as two-thirds of the events scheduled for the MHSAA.tv website will be automatically produced.
Pixellot was introduced to schools by the NFHS Network earlier this year to provide those schools which wished to live stream video of their events, but lacked the equipment or personnel to do so.
To date, a half-dozen schools are streaming events using Pixellot, and this week those schools will put 30 events online, primarily Volleyball and Soccer doubleheaders and tripleheaders. Additional schools will be coming online with their Pixellot units as the school year progresses.
Pixellot is part of the School Broadcast Program, which also will feature this week the battle for the Rocket-Rebel Trophy in Football on Friday (Sept. 15) when Wyoming Lee hosts Wyoming Kelloggsville at 7 p.m. The rivalry has been ongoing since the 1950s, with the trophy becoming the prize in 2010, and Kelloggsville has won all six games since then.
In its ninth 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 delayed - 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 this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:
Tuesday, Sept. 12
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball – Blanchard Montabella at Vestaburg, 5 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Coopersville at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - Hopkins at Wyoming Lee, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville , 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Goodrich at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball – Lansing Catholic at Fowlerville, 6:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball – Blanchard Montabella at Vestaburg, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 13
- Junior Varsity Boys Soccer - South Haven at Plainwell, 5 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 5 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sanford Meridian at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Sanford Meridian at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Boys Soccer - South Haven at Plainwell, 6:45 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Shepherd at Freeland, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 14
- Freshman Football - Allendale at Comstock Park, 4:30 p.m.
- Freshman Football - Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, 4:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Wakefield-Marenisco at Lake Linden-Hubbell, 5:30 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Football - Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Stephenson at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Football - Allendale at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Troy Athens at Lake Orion, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Stephenson at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 15
- Varsity Football - Gladwin at Clare, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Petoskey at Traverse City West, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Lake Orion at Troy Athens, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Wyoming Kelloggsville at Wyoming Lee, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Allegan at Plainwell, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Gwinn at Norway, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football - Durand at Montrose, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football – Ashley at Vestaburg, 7 p.m.
- Varsity Football – Portland at Fowlerville, 7 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 18
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Clawson at Macomb Lutheran North, 4 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Clawson at Macomb Lutheran North, 4 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Gladwin at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Gladwin at Harrison, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 19
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball – Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian at Comstock Park, 5 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Lake Fenton at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Eben Junction Superior Central at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball – Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Lake Fenton at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Lake Linden-Hubbell at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Lake Fenton at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Eben Junction Superior Central at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 20
- Varsity Girls Volleyball - Houghton Lake at Harrison, 6 p.m.
- Junior Varsity Girls Volleyball - Houghton Lake at Harrison, 6 p.m.
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 per month. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. All content becomes available for free, on- demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live. School Broadcast Program participants will also be selling Season and Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
Highlights of games produced in the past week by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members
are in their third week. Featured games are in football with Shepherd at Freeland and West Bloomfield at Lake Orion, and a volleyball match Fennville at Wyoming Lee.
Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.
More than 15 football games are featured each week on the State Champs! Sports Network Extra Point – powered by the Michigan High School Athletic Association – Saturday at 10 a.m. on FOX Sports Detroit.
The half-hour program features highlights from more than a dozen games each week, including clips from games produced by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members. The program airs multiple times each weekend on FOX Sports Detroit and on Comcast Channel 900, and will be archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.
Here is the projected list of games to be featured on this week’s edition of MHSAA Extra Point:
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Dearborn Divine Child
- Detroit Henry Ford at Detroit Mumford
- Wyoming Kelloggsville at Wyoming Lee
- Linden at Fenton
- Oak Park at Birmingham Groves
- Marysville at Marine City
Plus additional games from the Grand Rapids, Lansing, Northern Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula.
The MHSAA also has a presence on other State Champs! Network programs throughout each weekend. The MHSAA Minute is a weekly part of the State Champs! High School Sports Show on FOX Sports Detroit at 9 a.m. every Sunday – with multiple replays on FOX Sports Detroit and Comcast Channel 900 throughout the week. That program also is archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.
This week’s MHSAA Minute is the third of a three-part series on football rules changes for 2017, with this edition talking primarily about face guarding and defensive pass interference.
The MHSAA also has content on the State Champs Scoreboard! High School Football Radio Show on Friday nights during the football and basketball seasons, originating on WXYT-FM (97.1) in Detroit and carried on more than 10 radio stations across the state. This Week In High School Sports and Be the Referee are weekly features on the program.