MHSAA TV Returns to the Mats
March 2, 2016
By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director
Most of the MHSAA Championship action on MHSAA.tv in the coming week can be found on the mat, with nearly 300 hours of live streaming video in Girls Competitive Cheer and Individual Wrestling, plus Student Broadcast Program-produced coverage of Basketball Districts.
Live streaming this week begins at 2 p.m. on Thursday (March 3) from The Palace of Auburn Hills at the Individual Wrestling Finals. A dedicated camera will be on each of 12 mats on the floor, and include full graphics to indicate the participants on each match, plus full in-progress scoring information via Trackwrestling.
Here’s the complete wrestling coverage schedule:
· Thursday – First Round – 2 p.m.
· Friday – Rounds 2-3-4 – 8:30 a.m. - Round 2 at 8:30 a.m. is the first Consolation round. Round 3 at about 10:30 a.m. is the second round in the Championship bracket. Round 4 at about 1:30 p.m. is the second round in the Consolation bracket.
· Friday – Semifinal Round – 7 p.m.
· Saturday – Rounds 6-7-8 – 8:30 a.m. - Round 6 at 8:30 a.m. is the third Consolation round. Round 7 at about 9:45 a.m. is the fourth Consolation Round. Round 8 at about 11 a.m. is the final round in the Consolation bracket.
· Saturday – Final Round & Awards Presentations – 4:45 p.m.
Girls Competitive Cheer coverage begins Friday (March 4) from The DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids. Here’s the complete schedule
· Friday – Division 1 – 6 p.m. (East Kentwood, Grandville, Hudsonville, Lake Orion, Livonia Stevenson, Rochester, Southgate Anderson, Sterling Heights Stevenson, Troy Athens)
· Saturday – Division 2 – 10 a.m. (Allen Park, Dearborn Divine Child, DeWitt, Gibraltar Carlson, Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills, Muskegon Mona Shores, Richland Gull Lake, Trenton)
· Saturday - Division 4 – 2 p.m. (Breckenridge, Farwell, Houghton Lake, Hudson, Merrill, Michigan Center, Pewamo-Westphalia, Sanford Meridian)
· Saturday - Division 3 – 6 p.m. (Comstock Park, Escanaba, Lake Odessa Lakewood, Monroe Jefferson, Paw Paw, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, Ovid-Elsie, Richmond)
The continued Wrestling and full Cheer coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.tv. Online viewers can catch every weekend of action for one low cost of $14.95.
A Month Pass on MHSAA.tv for $14.95 will give a viewer access to events over a 30-day period from the time it is purchased. Over the next three weekends of live Winter championship coverage, the following events will be featured:
- Girls Basketball Districts – March 2-4
- Boys Basketball Districts – March 7-9-11
- Girls Basketball Regionals – March 8-10
- Ice Hockey Semifinals & Finals – March 10-12
- Girls Gymnastics Finals – March 11-12
- Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Finals – March 12
- Boys Basketball Regionals – March 14-16
- Girls Basketball Quarterfinals – March 15
- Girls Basketball Semifinals – March 17-18
- Boys Basketball Semifinals – March 22
- Boys Basketball Semifinals – March 24-25
A Day Pass is available for $9.95. All events become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion.
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.
Upcoming MHSAA Tournament coverage by SBP members includes a Girls Basketball District at Mt. Pleasant which could have a rubber match in its Final on Friday between Saginaw Heritage and Midland Dow, two top five teams in Class A which split their regular-season meetings. At Laingsburg, the three teams that tied for the regular-season title in the Central Michigan Athletic Conference are in the Semifinals, with Bath and Laingsburg squaring off, and Pewamo-Westphalia on the other side of the bracket.
Here’s the schedule of events School Broadcast Program members plan to cover this week for broadcast on MHSAA.tv (As of March 1):
March 2
- Class C Girls Basketball District Semifinals at Laingsburg
· Saranac v. Pewamo-Westphalia – 5:30 p.m. - LIVE
· Laingsburg v. Bath – 7 p.m. - LIVE
- Class A Girls Basketball District Semifinals at Mt. Pleasant
· Saginaw Heritage v. Bay City Western – 5:30 p.m. - LIVE
· Midland v. Midland Dow winner – 7:30 p.m. - LIVE
- Class D Girls Basketball District at Rogers City
· Onaway at Rogers City – 6 p.m. – LIVE
- Class A Girls Basketball District Semifinals at Lake Orion
· Waterford Mott at Lake Orion – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Division 3 Ice Hockey Regional at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood
· Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood v. Madison Heights Bishop Foley – 7:45 p.m. – LIVE
March 3
- Tawas Area at Alpena – JV Boys Basketball – 5:30 p.m. – LIVDE
- Whittemore-Prescott at Rogers City – JV Boys Basketball – 6 p.m. - On-Demand
- OAA Crossover at Lake Orion – Boys Basketball – 7 p.m. – LIVE
- Lansing Waverly at East Lansing – Boys Basketball – 7 p.m. – On-Demand
- Escanaba at Calumet – Boys Basketball – 7:20 p.m. – LIVE
- Whittemore-Prescott at Rogers City – Boys Basketball – 7:30 p.m. - LIVE
March 4
- Class A Girls Basketball Finals at Mt. Pleasant – 6:30 p.m. - LIVE
- Class C Girls Basketball District Finals at Laingsburg – 7 p.m. - LIVE
March 5
- Division 3 Ice Hockey Regional at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood
· Teams TBA – 3:15 p.m. – LIVE
March 7
- Class A Boys Basketball District First Round at East Lansing
· East Lansing v. Lansing Waverly – 5 p.m. - LIVE
· Haslett v. Grand Ledge – 7:30 p.m. – LIVE
March 8
- Class A Girls Basketball Regional Semifinals at Mason - 6 & 7:30 p.m. - LIVE
- Class A Girls Basketball Regional Semifinals at Hudsonville - 6 & 8 p.m. - LIVE
Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
More Championships Come to MHSAA TV
October 31, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Championship action in two sports plus the second week of PrepZone gridiron coverage will provide fans of MHSAA action lots to choose from this weekend.
Coverage begins with four District Final games in the MHSAA Football Playoffs – powered by the Michigan Army National Guard – on the PrepZone on FoxSportsDetroit.com and FOX Sports GO! on Friday (Nov. 3) at 7 p.m.:
- Canton at Belleville (Div. 1)
- Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Wyoming Kelloggsville (Div. 4)
- River Rouge at Chelsea (Div. 4 – Also available on FOX Sports Detroit Facebook page)
- Pewamo-Westphalia at New Lothrop (Div. 7)
On Saturday (Nov. 4), the four championship games of the Lower Peninsula Boys Soccer Tournament will have live streaming video on MHSAA.tv and live streaming audio on MHSAANetwork.com, and the Finish Line Cam at Michigan International Speedway returns at the L.P. Cross Country Finals on MHSAA.tv.
All four PrepZone games feature clashes of highly-ranked teams in the final Associated Press polls for 2017. Belleville was ranked second and Canton ninth in the final Division 1 poll; Grand Rapids Catholic Central and Wyoming Kelloggsville were 1-2 in Division 4; River Rouge and Chelsea were 7-8 in the final Division 3 poll; and New Lothrop finished the season atop the Division 7 rankings with Pewamo-Westphalia in third.
The River Rouge at Chelsea game will receive bonus coverage, streaming live on the Fox Sports Detroit Facebook page. That game drew 49 percent of the votes in a Twitter poll conducted Monday.
All PrepZone games will be archived on MHSAA.tv.
Saturday’s Boys Soccer Finals will be live on MHSAA.tv with games at Noon and 3 p.m. The games will be played at Rochester Hills Stoney Creek and Comstock Park High Schools, with divisions at each site to be announced after the Semifinals on Wednesday (Nov. 1). All of the games will also have live streaming audio at MHSAANetwork.com.
One Soccer Semifinal game will be Live on MHSAA.tv on Wednesday – a Division 3 matchup at Cedar Springs between Ludington and Grand Rapids South Christian, at 6 p.m.
MHSAA.tv will also offer a free live video stream on Saturday of the finish line at the Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals at Michigan International Speedway. The stream will include audio commentary from announcers around the course throughout each race. The morning session with the boys and girls races in Division 3 and 4 begins at 9:30 a.m., and the afternoon session with races in Divisions 1 and 2 starts at 1:30 p.m. Live timing of each race will also be available on the Cross Country page of the MHSAA Website.
A month’s subscription to watch live on MHSAA.tv is $9.95 and allows access to the full schedule of MHSAA Tournaments during the month of November:
- Nov. 4 – Boys Soccer Finals
- Nov. 11 – Selected Football Playoff Regional Finals
- Nov. 16-17 – Girls Volleyball Semifinals & Finals
- Nov. 18 – Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals
- Nov. 18 – Football Playoff Semifinals (12 games)
Live coverage of Football District Finals and Girls Volleyball District games also takes place this week on MHSAA.tv, being produced by SBP schools:
- Volleyball – Ishpeming Westwood v. Ishpeming at Negaunee – Tuesday, 6 p.m.
- Volleyball – Gwinn at Negaunee – Tuesday, 7 p.m.
- Volleyball – Lake Orion at Clarkston – Wednesday, 5:30 p.m.
- Boys Soccer – Ludington v. Grand Rapids South Christian at Cedar Springs – Wednesday, 6 p.m.
- Volleyball – Gladwin at Harrison – Wednesday, 6 p.m.
- Volleyball – Standish Sterling v. Grayling at Harrison – Wednesday, 7 p.m.
- Volleyball – Clarkston/Lake Orion winner v. Ortonville Brandon/Holly winner at Clarkston – Thursday, 7 p.m.
- Football – Lansing Sexton at Plainwell – Friday, 7 p.m.
- Football – Haslett at East Lansing – Friday, 7 p.m.
- Football – St. Louis at Breckenridge – Friday, 7 p.m.
- Football – Traverse City Central v. Traverse City West at Thirlby Field – Friday, 7 p.m.
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. Pixellot is used by schools wishing to stream games but which lack the ability to staff the events. The SBP 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.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
A weekly staple on the MHSAA.tv website and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube is back for another year with highlights of selected games last week produced by members of the Association’s School Broadcast Program.
This week’s highlights package consists of clips from Pre-District football games Parma Western at Haslett and Oscoda at Breckenridge, and a boys soccer Regional Final match with Petoskey at East Lansing.
Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
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 are some of the games to be featured this week on State Champs! Extra Point:
- Canton at Belleville
- Macomb Dakota at Clinton Township Chippewa Valley
- Warren DeLaSalle at Port Huron Northern
- Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Wyoming Kelloggsville
- River Rouge at Chelsea
- Grant at Muskegon Oakridge
- Kent City at Montague
- Laingsburg at Ithaca
- Pewamo-Westphalia at Ithaca
- Petersburg-Summerfield at Ottawa Lake-Whiteford
- Morrice at Deckerville
PLUS - Additional coverage from Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, Upper Peninsula and School Broadcast Program games.
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 on State Champs talks about The Scholar-Athlete Award.
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.