Soccer Playoffs Come to MHSAA TV

October 19, 2020

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

District Semifinal and Final games in the 2020 MHSAA Lower Peninsula Boys Soccer Tournament highlights another full week of activity on the NFHS Network and MHSAA.tv.

Play runs Monday through Saturday this week.  Here’s the schedule:


Boys Soccer District Semifinals

Monday – Oct. 19
Warren De La Salle Collegiate vs. Sterling Heights – 4:30 PM
East Lansing vs. Grand Blanc – 5 PM
Ithaca vs. Bad Axe – 5:30 PM
Niles vs. St. Joseph – 5:30 PM
St. Clair Shores Lake Shore vs. Warren Woods Tower – 6 PM
Fenton vs. Okemos – 7 PM
Paw Paw vs. Three Rivers – 7:15 PM
 
Tuesday – Oct. 20
Hazel Park vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – 4 PM
Freeland vs. Alma – 4:30 PM
Detroit Catholic Central vs. Brighton – 5 PM
Hudsonville Unity Christian vs. Fennville – 5 PM
Mattawan vs. Kalamazoo Loy Norrix – 5 PM
Melvindale vs. Dearborn Divine Child – 5 PM
Sterling Heights Stevenson vs. Troy Athens – 5 PM
Livonia Clarenceville vs. Center Line – 5:30 PM
Midland vs. Traverse City Central – 6 PM
East Grand Rapids vs. Wyoming Godwin Heights – 6 PM
Adrian Lenawee Christian vs. Ann Arbor Greenhills – 6:30 PM
Hemlock vs. Shepherd – 7 PM
Northville vs. North Farmington – 7 PM
Portage Central vs. Portage Northern – 7 PM
Saline vs. Ann Arbor Pioneer – 7 PM
Troy vs. Utica – 7 PM
Watervliet vs. South Haven – 7 PM
Wyoming Lee vs. Grand Rapids South Christian – 7 PM
Allen Park vs. Detroit Cesar Chavez – 7:15 PM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Clawson – 7:30 PM

Boys Soccer District Finals

 
Wednesday – Oct. 21
At Fenton – 6 PM
 
Thursday – Oct. 22
At Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – 4 PM
At Warren DeLaSalle Collegiate – 4:30 PM
At Brownstown Woodhaven – 5 PM
At East Grand Rapids – 6 PM
At Grand Rapids South Christian – 6 PM
At St. Clair Shores Lake Shore – 6 PM
At Vicksburg – 6 PM
At Waterford Mott – 6 PM
At Pontiac Notre Dame Prep – 6:30 PM
At Dearborn Divine Child – 7 PM
At Novi – 7 PM
At Saline – 7 PM
 
Saturday – Oct. 24
At Clare – 11 AM
At Portage Northern – 6 PM
 
In the coming week, more than 550 events at all levels in a variety of sports will be available on the NFHS Network/MHSAA.tv. Monthly subscriptions are $10.99. Click for a complete list of upcoming games, and for a complete list of on-demand games

Fans also can type their school name into the search field on the MHSAA.tv page to search for events. Varsity games being streamed also have links from the MHSAA Website’s Score Center, and from the schedules on individual school pages. Clicking on the green TV set icon listed next to an event will take you directly to a game. You can also watch on Roku enabled devices.

Here is a list of football and girls volleyball varsity events taking place over the coming week on the NFHS Network/MHSAA.tv (Home team generally listed first):

Football


Thursday - Oct. 22 
Negaunee vs. Ishpeming Westwood  - 7 PM
 
Friday - Oct. 23 
Hartland vs. Brighton  - 6:45 PM
Kingston vs. Whittemore-Prescott  - 6:55 PM
Bay City John Glenn vs. Freeland  - 7 PM
Bloomfield Hills  vs. Auburn Hills Avondale  - 7 PM
Brethren vs. Onekama  - 7 PM
Cadillac vs. Gaylord  - 7 PM
Calumet vs. Marquette - 7 PM
Caro vs. Burton Bendle  - 7 PM
Cedar Springs  vs. Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills  - 7 PM
Chesaning  vs. New Lothrop  - 7 PM
Clare  vs. Gaylord  - 7 PM
Dearborn Divine Child  vs. Detroit Central - 7 PM
DeWitt  vs. Stevensville Lakeshore  - 7 PM
Durand vs. Montrose  - 7 PM
East Grand Rapids  vs. Byron Center  - 7 PM
Erie-Mason  vs. Pittsford  - 7 PM
Fenton  vs. Ortonville Brandon  - 7 PM
Flint Powers Catholic  vs. Flint Carman-Ainsworth  - 7 PM
Fowlerville  vs. Pinckney  - 7 PM
Frankenmuth  vs. Bridgeport  - 7 PM
Freeland  vs. Remus Chippewa Hills  - 7 PM
Gladstone  vs. Escanaba  - 7 PM
Grand Blanc  vs. Saline  - 7 PM
Grand Rapids South Christian  vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central  - 7 PM
Grass Lake  vs. Addison  - 7 PM
Grosse Pointe North  vs. Grosse Pointe South  - 7 PM
Harbor Beach vs. Unionville Sebewaing  - 7 PM
Hopkins  vs. Wyoming Kelloggsville  - 7 PM
Houghton  vs. Hancock  - 7 PM
Ithaca  vs. Standish-Sterling - 7 PM
Kinde North Huron  vs. Mayville  - 7 PM
Kingsford  vs. Menominee  - 7 PM
Kingsley vs. Benzie Central  - 7 PM
Livonia Clarenceville  vs. Whitmore Lake  - 7 PM
Madison Heights Lamphere  vs. Hazel Park  - 7 PM
Manistee  vs. McBain  - 7 PM
Maple City Glen Lake  vs. Charlevoix  - 7 PM
Midland  vs. Midland Dow  - 7 PM
Munising  vs. Lake Linden-Hubbell  - 7 PM
Niles  vs. Dowagiac Union  - 7 PM
Northville  vs. Howell  - 7 PM
Novi  vs. Salem  - 7 PM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep  vs. TBA - 7 PM
Portage Central  vs. Richland Gull Lake  - 7 PM
Reed City  vs. Grant  - 7 PM
Rockford  vs. Grandville  - 7 PM
Saginaw Heritage  vs. Mount Pleasant  - 7 PM
Saginaw Swan Valley  vs. Birch Run  - 7 PM
South Lyon East  vs. South Lyon  - 7 PM
St Johns  vs. Alpena  - 7 PM
Sturgis  vs. Plainwell  - 7 PM
Summit Academy North  vs. TBA - 7 PM
Troy  vs. Troy Athens - 7 PM
Vermontville Maple Valley  vs. Belleville  - 7 PM
Vicksburg  vs. Otsego  - 7 PM
Walled Lake Northern  vs. Romeo  - 7 PM
Walled Lake Western  vs. Walled Lake Central  - 7 PM
Warren Woods-Tower  vs. Detroit U-D Jesuit  - 7 PM
Wayland Union  vs. Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills  - 7 PM
West Bloomfield  vs. Lake Orion  - 7 PM
Norway  vs. Niagara, WI  - 8 PM
 
Saturday – Oct. 24 
Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood  vs. Redford Union  - 3 PM
Traverse City St. Francis  vs. Jackson Lumen Christi - 3 PM
 

Girls Volleyball


Tuesday - Oct. 20 
Dearborn Heights Robichaud  vs. Melvindale  - 4 PM
Durand vs. Montrose  - 4:30 PM
Marcellus  vs. TBA - 5 PM
Southfield Christian  vs. Brighton Charyl Stockwell - 5:30 PM
DeWitt  vs. Williamston  - 6 PM
East Lansing  vs. Lansing Waverly  - 6 PM
Kinde North Huron  vs. Carsonville-Port Sanilac  - 6 PM
Mayville  vs. Dryden  - 6 PM
Merrill  vs. Ashley  - 6 PM
Munising  vs. Rapid River  - 6 PM
Norway  vs. Carney-Nadeau  - 6 PM
Peck   vs. Genesee  - 6 PM
Vermontville Maple Valley  vs. Lansing Christian  - 6 PM
Chesaning  vs. New Lothrop  - 6:15 PM
Grand Rapids South Christian vs Ada Forest Hills Eastern - 6:15 PM
Mt Morris  vs. Byron Area - 6:15 PM
New Lothrop  vs. Chesaning  - 6:15 PM
Otisville LakeVille vs. Ovid-Elsie  - 6:15 PM
St Johns  vs. Haslett  - 6:20 PM
Blanchard Montabella  vs. Vestaburg  - 6:30 PM
Frankfort  vs. Suttons Bay  - 6:30 PM
Highland Milford  vs. TBA - 6:30 PM
Howell  vs. Salem  - 6:30 PM
Negaunee  vs. Hancock  - 6:30 PM
Northville  vs. Hartland  - 6:30 PM
St. Clair Shores Lake Shore  vs. St. Clair  - 6:30 PM
Watervliet  vs. Lawton  - 6:30 PM
Whitmore Lake  vs. Novi Christian Academy - 6:30 PM
Garden City  vs. Dearborn Heights Annapolis  - 7 PM
Gladstone  vs. Marquette   - 7 PM
Hemlock  vs. St. Louis  - 7 PM
Hopkins  vs. Comstock Park  - 7 PM
Kingsley vs. Buckley  - 7 PM
Macomb Lutheran North  vs. Yale  - 7 PM
Plymouth Christian Academy vs. Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest  - 7 PM
Saginaw Heritage  vs. Grand Blanc  - 7 PM
St. Charles  vs. Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart - 7 PM
Kingsford  vs. Escanaba  - 7:15 PM
Cass City  vs. Caro  - 7:30 PM
 
Wednesday - Oct. 21 
Grandville  vs. Caledonia  - 5 PM
Holly  vs. Flushing  - 5:15 PM
Dollar Bay  vs. Ontonagon - 5:20 PM
Bloomfield Hills Marian  vs. TBA - 6 PM
Pentwater  vs. Baldwin - 6 PM
St. Clair  Shores Lake Shore  vs. Clinton Twp. Clintondale  - 6 PM
Warren Regina vs.  TBA - 6 PM
Corunna  vs. Clio  - 6:15 PM
Fenton  vs. Flint Kearsley  - 6:15 PM
Pewamo-Westphalia  vs. Laingsburg  - 6:30 PM
Stevensville Lakeshore  vs. TBA - 6:30 PM
West Bloomfield  vs. Walled Lake Northern  - 6:30 PM
Traverse City West  vs. Cadillac  - 6:45 PM
Bridgeport  vs. Bay City John Glenn - 7 PM
Frankenmuth  vs. Freeland  - 7 PM
Grandville  vs. Grand Haven  - 7 PM
Linden  vs. Swartz Creek  - 7 PM
Morley Stanwood  vs. Hesperia   - 7 PM
Saginaw Swan Valley  vs. Essexville Garber  - 7 PM
Harrison  vs. Clare  - 7:30 PM
 
Thursday - Oct. 22 
Dearborn Heights Robichaud  vs. Ypsilanti Arbor Prep  - 5 PM
Multi-team Event @ Whitmore Lake - 5 PM
Ortonville Brandon  vs. Goodrich  - 5:15 PM
Grand Rapids Christian  vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central  - 6 PM
Kinde North Huron  vs. Caseville  - 6 PM
Mason  vs. Eaton Rapids  - 6 PM
Munising  vs. Stephenson  - 6 PM
Peck   vs. Kingston  - 6 PM
Romulus Summit Academy North  vs. Clarkston Everest Collegiate - 6 PM
Sturgis  vs. Plainwell  - 6 PM
Vermontville Maple Valley  vs. Owosso  - 6 PM
Vicksburg  vs. Otsego  - 6 PM
Montrose  vs. Mt Morris  - 6:15 PM
St Johns  vs. Williamston  - 6:20 PM
Chesaning  vs. Otisville LakeVille - 6:30 PM
Dearborn Divine Child  vs. Livonia Churchill  - 6:30 PM
Erie-Mason  vs. Monroe Jefferson  - 6:30 PM
Grosse Pointe North  vs. Grosse Pointe South  - 6:30 PM
Mancelona  vs. Elk Rapids  - 6:30 PM
New Lothrop  vs. Byron Area  - 6:30 PM
Novi  vs. Howell  - 6:30 PM
Oakland Christian  vs. Southfield Christian  - 6:30 PM
Ovid-Elsie vs. Durand - 6:30 PM
Harbor Beach   vs. Memphis  - 6:45 PM
East Lansing  vs. Potterville  - 7 PM
Garden City  vs. Riverview Gabriel Richard - 7 PM
Hopkins  vs. Belding - 7 PM
Kalamazoo Christian  vs. Grand Rapids Covenant Christian  - 7 PM
Marquette   vs. Kingsford  - 7 PM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Rochester Adams  - 7 PM
Saginaw Heritage  vs. Mount Pleasant  - 7 PM
Houghton  vs. Hancock  - 7:15 PM
Brethren  vs. Onekama  - 7:30 PM
Dryden  vs. Genesee  - 7:30 PM
Unionville Sebewaing  vs. Bad Axe  - 7:30 PM
 
Saturday – Oct. 24 
White Lake Lakeland  vs. TBA - 8:30 AM
East Kentwood  vs. Caledonia  - 9 AM
Fremont  vs. Cedar Springs  - 9 AM
Midland  vs. TBA - 9 AM
Millington  vs. TBA - 9 AM
Niles  vs. TBA - 9 AM
Part 1 | Multi-team Event @ Pentwater - 9 AM
Rockford  vs. Holland West Ottawa  - 9 AM
Saline  vs. TBA - 9 AM
Part 1 | Multi-team Event @ Calumet  - 10 AM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Bloomfield Hills Marian  - 10 AM
Williamston  vs. TBA - 10 AM
Grand Rapids Christian  vs. Traverse City West  - 11 AM
East Kentwood  vs. Grand Haven  - 11:30 AM
Rockford  vs. Jenison  - 11:30 AM
Freeland  vs. TBA - 12 PM
Part 2 | Multi-team Event @ Calumet  - 1 PM
East Kentwood  vs. Grandville  - 2 PM
Part 2 | Multi-team Event @ Pentwater - 2 PM
Rockford  vs. Hudsonville  - 2 PM
 
Monday - Oct. 26 
Freeland  vs. TBA - 5 PM
Kingsley vs. TBA  - 5 PM
Troy  vs. Hartland  - 5 PM
Troy Athens  vs. Grosse Pointe South  - 5 PM
Flint Kearsley  vs. Holly  - 5:15 PM
Flushing  vs. Swartz Creek  - 5:15 PM
Linden  vs. Fenton  - 5:15 PM
Mason  vs. Haslett  - 6 PM
Corunna  vs. Brandon  - 6:15 PM
Otisville LakeVille vs. Millington  - 6:15 PM
Dollar Bay  vs. Chassell  - 6:20 PM
Clare  vs. Grayling  - 7:30 PM
 
Tuesday - Oct. 27 
Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian vs. Montague  - TBA
Dearborn Heights Robichaud  vs. Hamtramck  - 4 PM
Vicksburg vs. TBA - 4 PM
Burton Bendle  vs. Genesee  - 5 PM
Fremont  vs. Ludington  - 5 PM
Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian vs. Grant  - 5 PM
Multi-team Event @ New Lothrop - 5 PM
Multi-team Event @ Plainwell - 5 PM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Holly  - 5 PM
Cass City  vs. Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker  - 6 PM
Eaton Rapids  vs. Portland  - 6 PM
Fowlerville  vs. Charlotte  - 6 PM
Multi-team Event @ Grand Rapids Christian - 6 PM
Munising  vs. Norway  - 6 PM
Vermontville Maple Valley vs. TBA - 6 PM
Williamston  vs. Lansing Catholic - 6 PM
Montrose  vs. Ovid-Elsie  - 6:15 PM
Mt Morris  vs. New Lothrop  - 6:15 PM
Stockbridge   vs. Grass Lake  - 6:15 PM
Warren Woods-Tower  vs. Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley  - 6:15 PM
St Johns  vs. Portland  - 6:20 PM
Bloomfield Hills Roeper  vs. Novi Christian - 6:30 PM
Erie-Mason  vs. Sand Creek  - 6:30 PM
Grosse Pointe North  vs. Fraser  - 6:30 PM
Ishpeming  vs. Gwinn  - 6:30 PM
Livonia Clarenceville  vs. Southfield Christian  - 6:30 PM
Oakland Christian  vs. Lutheran  Westland - 6:30 PM
Romulus Summit Academy North  vs. Ypsilanti Arbor Prep  - 6:30 PM
Sterling Heights Parkway Christian School vs. Huron Valley Lutheran  - 6:30 PM
Gladstone  vs. Negaunee  - 6:45 PM
Harbor Beach vs. Marlette  - 6:45 PM
Chesaning  vs. Durand - 7 PM
Garden City  vs. Dearborn Heights Crestwood  - 7 PM
Grand Rapids South Christian  vs. Lansing Catholic  - 7 PM
Hopkins  vs. Allegan  - 7 PM
Marquette   vs. Escanaba  - 7 PM
St Charles  vs. Blanchard Montabella  - 7 PM
Kingsford  vs. Crystal Falls Forest Park  - 7:15 PM
Bad Axe  vs. Caro &

Montrose Earns SBP Awards 5-Peat

By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director emeritus

May 11, 2018

Make it five in row for Montrose High School, which again claimed the top spot as the “Program of the Year” in the MHSAA’s School Broadcast Program Excellence Awards for 2017-18.

The SBP Excellence Awards will award certificates and plaques to the schools which took individual honors, with the presentation dates and times to be announced.

Montrose took first place in every category: Best Highlight, Best Multicamera Production, Best Student Play-by-Play, Best Produced Commercial/Feature, Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Sports Graphics and Best Use of PlayOn! Sports Graphics. It also placed a second entry in five of the six categories.

Montrose continued to demonstrate good blend of productions in a variety of sports covered and an overall command of the PlayOn! Sports software used for graphics and inserting commercials/features during the course of productions.

Other criteria used in selecting the top program awards were sporting events produced and live page views for those events. The events category was dominated by schools using Pixellot, the NFHS Network’s automated coverage solution, but still topped by a traditional SBP member. Comstock Park has produced 89 events to date this year, followed by three Pixellot schools – Freeland (76), Plainwell (76) and Macomb Lutheran North (71). 

For live page views, the top four schools were Dollar Bay, Lake Orion, Norway and Calumet. Dollar Bay and Norway are dedicated Pixellot schools, while Calumet produces games with traditional crews and Pixellot.

Here is the complete list by categories of the schools and students being honored in this year’s SBP Excellence Awards:

Best Highlight

First Place – Montrose - Eric Vandefifer, David Sackrider, Peyton Hobson, Tanner Sims – Football game v. Birch Run.

Second Place – Negaunee - Thomas Bagley, Chaz Bluse, Alec Johnson – Gymnastics meet v. Super Seven co-op.

Third Place – Montrose - Danny Sackrider, Steven Folsom, Taylor Burke Pennington, Randall Smith – Boys Basketball game v. Genesee Christian.

Best Multicamera Production

First Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer, John Blackford, Kenzie Bishop – MHSAA District Wrestling Finals.

Second Place – Lake Orion – WDBC Staff – Boys Basketball game v. Oxford.

Third Place – Lake Orion – WDBC Staff – Boys Basketball game v. Rochester.

Best Student Play-By-Play

First Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer and David Sackrider – Football game v. Birch Run.

Second Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer and David Sackrider – JV Boys Basketball game v. Genesee Christian.

Third Place – Lake Orion – Ben Wellman and Ted Hirschfield – Boys Basketball game v. Rochester.

Best Produced Commercial/Feature

First Place – Montrose – Jared Adams, Maddie Pyrc, John Blackford – Conlee Oil Company Commercial.

Second Place – Montrose – Jared Adams, Molly Dunton, David Sackrider – Hamilton’s RV Commercial.

Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Graphics

First Place - Montrose – David Sackrider, Eric Vandefifer, Tanner Sims, Peyton Hobson, Taylor Burke-Pennington – Football game v. Birch Run.

Second Place – Negaunee – Colton Yesney, Carter Richardson, Robby Williams, Peyton Anderson – Girls Volleyball match v. Gwinn.

Third Place – Montrose - David Sackrider, Eric Vandefifer, Tanner Sims, Peyton Hobson, Taylor Burke-Pennington - JV Boys Basketball game v. Genesee Christian.

Best Use of PlayOn! Graphics/Software

First Place - Montrose – David Sackrider, Eric Vandefifer, Tanner Sims, Peyton Hobson, Taylor Burke-Pennington – Football Game v. Birch Run.

Second Place – Lake Orion - Ben Wellman, Isabella Larsen, Micah Williams, Samuel Jenkins – Boys Basketball game v. Clarkston.

Third Place – Montrose - David Sackrider, Eric Vandefifer, Tanner Sims, Peyton Hobson,Taylor Burke-Pennington - JV Boys Basketball game v. Genesee Christian.

Montrose also was honored this spring by the NFHS Network with the Best Live Sports Broadcast of the 2017-18 school year. Its production of a regular-season football game with Birch Run, won by Montrose in overtime, took top honors.

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.  

A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.

PHOTOS: (Top) Montrose’s Eric Vandefifer interviews three of his school’s wrestlers who qualified for the MHSAA Individual Finals, during a basketball telecast in March. (Middle) Montrose SBP students take in Tigers Student Media Day this spring.