Highlight Reel: Girls Lacrosse Semifinals

June 5, 2015

By John Johnson
MHSAA communications director

East Grand Rapids and Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood earned berths in Saturday’s Division 2 Girls Lacrosse Final with Semifinal victories Wednesday.

Below are highlights from their victories taken from broadcasts on MHSAA.tv. Click the headings for each to watch.

Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood 24, Farmington Hills Mercy 6

Mercy Goes Top Shelf Chandler Pincheck gets Farmington Hills Mercy on the board against Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, going up high with this shot.

Barnes With Late First Half Goal Cranbrook Kingswood was cruising by halftime, a late goal coming here from Abby Barnes.

Vespa Second Half Goal Ari Vespa makes a nice run here to score Cranbrook Kingswood's first goal of the second half.

At-a-way Ottaway Here's a nice run off a restart by Farmington Hills Mercy's Brooke Ottaway for a second half goal.

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East Grand Rapids 9, Okemos 5

East's Elder's Early Goal Liza Elder gets East Grand Rapids on the board right off the opening draw, driving in from the wing to score.

Vanhoven Goes Low Cydney Vanhoven picks up a first half goal for East Grand Rapids with a low shot.

Chiefs Convert Turnover Okemos tightened things up near the end of the first half, converting an East Grand Rapids turnover into a goal by Melaina Grewal.

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Montrose To Receive Excellence Awards

By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director emeritus

September 16, 2015

Montrose High School, the MHSAA School Broadcast Program of the Year for the 2014-15 school year, will be honored at halftime of the Durand at Montrose football game on Friday. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

Montrose has won the Program of the Year honor in each of the first two years the MHSAA, in partnership with Herff Jones, has sponsored the School Broadcast Program Excellence Awards. In addition to repeating as the top school in the program, Montrose captured first place honors in three of the five individual categories.

Montrose took first place in Best Play-By-Play (Eric Vandefifer, Trey Schmitz  – Boys Basketball game vs. Lake Fenton), Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Sports graphics (Trey Schmitz, Andrew Morley, Eric Vandefifer – Girls Soccer match vs. Hemlock), and the top two spots for Best Use of PlayOn! Sports Graphics (Eric Vandefifer, Trey Schmitz, Andrew Morley, Griffin Powell, Bradley Payne – Boys Basketball game vs. Goodrich; and Eric Vandefifer, Trey Schmitz, Andrew Morley – Girls Basketball game vs. Lake Fenton). The program also took a second place for Best Produced Commercial/Feature (Alyssa Bernard, Amanda Ramsey, Alicia Town, Allia Town – Sexual Assault PSA) and a third for Best Multicamera Production (Trey Schmitz, Andrew Morley, Amanda Ramsey, Nathan Brown, Eric Vandefifer, Brandon Smith – Genesee Area Conference Girls Competitive Cheer Finals). 

The presentation will be shown live on MHSAA.tv as one of a number of live events being streamed online this year by School Broadcast Program members.

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 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 the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to stream competition this week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv  (As of Sept. 14):

The SBP programming schedule is expected to expand now that school is in session across the state. A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.

Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.

This week's MHSAA.tv highlights package includes clips from the South Haven/Plainwell and Lake Fenton/Montrose football games and Chassell/Calumet volleyball match.