Football Rivalries Top This Week’s MHSAA.tv, Media Partner Broadcast Schedules
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
September 22, 2021
A series of football rivalries will be showcased on MHSAA.tv and the NFHS Network, as well as media partners Bally Sports Detroit and State Champs! Sports Network during another busy weekend of broadcasts Sept. 24-26.
This week’s Bally Sports Detroit live cable football broadcast will feature Lansing-area rivals Grand Ledge (4-0) and DeWitt (3-1) at 7 p.m. Friday with first place on the line in the Capital Area Activities Conference Blue. That game can be watched on BSD’s PLUS channel or online on BSD’s website or app. On Sunday, State Champs will broadcast live on its website the annual “Boys Bowl” between Detroit Catholic League Central contenders Bloomfield Hills Brother Rice (3-1) and Detroit Catholic Central (3-1), with kickoff at 1 p.m.
This weekend’s MHSAA.tv football schedule includes more than 165 games, including a number of notable Friday night rivalry clashes. Annual powers Rockford (4-0) and Hudsonville (2-2) are among four teams undefeated in Ottawa-Kent Conference Red play after two league games, and Dearborn Fordson (4-0) takes on Belleville (3-1) in a matchup that regularly helps decide the Kensington Lakes Activities Association East champion. Pewamo-Westphalia (4-0) faces Fowler (2-2) for first place in the Central Michigan Athletic Conference, Edwardsburg (4-0) and Plainwell (4-0) match up to decide the leader in the Wolverine Conference, and Frankenmuth (4-0) and Freeland (4-0) will clash for first place in the Tri-Valley Conference East. While not a league game, Boyne City (4-0) and Traverse City St. Francis (4-0) also will meet in a matchup of undefeated teams.
See links below to those and a few more events of note being broadcast on the Network this week:
FOOTBALL
Sept. 24, 6:35 p.m.: Fowler at Pewamo-Westphalia
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Novi at Canton
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Belleville at Fordson
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Freeland at Frankenmuth
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: West Bloomfield at Lake Orion
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Montrose at New Lothrop
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Edwardsburg at Plainwell
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Hudsonville at Rockford
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Muskegon Mona Shores at Zeeland East
Sept. 24, 7 p.m.: Clinton Township Chippewa Valley at Romeo
Sept. 25, 1 p.m.: Boyne City at Traverse City St. Francis
VOLLEYBALL
Sept. 22, 5:25 p.m.: Kalamazoo Central at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix
Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m.: Maple City Glen Lake at Leland
Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m.: Cadillac at Gaylord
BOYS SOCCER
Sept. 22, 6 p.m.: Midland at Flint Powers Catholic
Sept. 25, 10 a.m.: Berkley at Rochester
Sept. 25, 12:30 p.m.: Auburn Hills Oakland Christian at Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett
The MHSAA.tv schedule total also includes more than 200 volleyball and more than 80 boys soccer matches this week. Click the links below to see all three sports’ listings in full:
Football – Volleyball – Boys 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.
30 Game Broadcasts Airing on MHSAA TV
September 30, 2015
By John Johnson
MHSAA communications director
More than 50 events, including more than 30 athletic broadcasts, will be put out by members of the MHSAA’s School Broadcast Program during the coming week.
The programming ranges from athletic events to school board meetings, daily student announcements and powder puff football games. A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
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 School Broadcast Program members planning to stream athletic competition 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 Sept. 29):
Wednesday – Sept. 30
- Standish-Sterling at Pinconning – Boys Soccer – 5 p.m. – On-Demand
- Okemos at East Lansing – Boys Soccer – 6:30 p.m. – On-Demand
Thursday – Oct. 1
- Grand Rapids Northview at Cedar Springs – Girls Volleyball – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Holt at East Lansing – Girls Swimming & Diving – 6 p.m. – On-Demand
- Hopkins at Comstock Park – JV Football – 6:30 p.m. – LIVE
- Marine City Cardinal Mooney at Onaway – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- Clarkston at Lake Orion – Volleyball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
Friday – Oct. 2
- Tawas at Whittemore-Prescott – Football – 6:30 p.m. – On-Demand
- Burton Atherton at AuGres-Sims – Football – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern at Cedar Springs – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Lansing Everett at East Lansing – Football – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- DeWitt at Haslett – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Lansing Waverly at Mason – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Standish-Sterling at Montrose – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Dowagiac at Plainwell – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Grand Haven at Rockford – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Mio at Rogers City – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Kingsford at Marquette – Football – 7:30 p.m. – LIVE
- Lincoln Alcona at Oscoda – Football – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Houghton Lake at Clare – Football – 7 p.m. - LIVE
Saturday – Oct. 3
- Onaway Volleyball Invitational – 9 a.m. – On-Demand
Tuesday – Oct. 6
- Oscoda at Lincoln Alcona – Girls Volleyball – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Jackson at East Lansing – Girls Volleyball – 6 p.m. – On-Demand
- Grand Rapids Northview at Cedar Springs – Boys Soccer – 6:45 p.m. – LIVE
- L’Anse at Calumet – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Posen at Rogers City – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Johannesburg-Lewiston at Onaway – Girls Volleyball – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
Weekly highlights from games produced by participants in the MHSAA's School Broadcast Program are back for another school year on MHSAA.tv. Highlights from this past week come from an 8-player football games between Cedarville at Onaway and girls volleyball matches between Kingsford at Marquette and Mason at Haslett. See below for this week’s package.
Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
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. Saturday; and 10 a.m. Sunday on FOX Sports Detroit.
The following games are scheduled to be highlighted this week on Football Friday Overtime:
- Novi at South Lyon
- Walled Lake Northern at Walled Lake Western
- Detroit Collegiate Prep at Detroit Pershing
- Northville at Livonia Stevenson
- Flint Hamady at Burton Bendle
- Flint Beecher at Lake Fenton