Winter Tournament Action Begins Online

Highlights

February 7, 2018

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

This week marks the beginning of seven weeks of live streaming video of MHSAA winter tournaments on MHSAA.tv, with a number of those events being produced by participants in the School Broadcast Program.

School Broadcast Program participants cover tournament games which take place at their facilities as a condition of membership in the program. SBP schools also play a major role in the production of Quarterfinal games in the Boys and Girls Basketball Tournaments in March.

This week, District Wrestling activity will be covered by Comstock Park, Otisville-LakeVille, Lake Orion, Freeland and Montrose.

The NFHS Network will provide six straight weekends of tournament coverage this winter. Here’s the complete schedule:

Feb. 16-17 – Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals
Feb. 22-24 – Team Dual Wrestling Quarterfinals-Semifinals-Finals
March 2-3 – Individual Wrestling Finals
March 2-3 – Girls Competitive Cheer Finals
March 8-10 – Ice Hockey Semifinals & Finals
March 13 – Girls Basketball Quarterfinals
March 15-16 – Girls Basketball Semifinals
March 20 – Boys Basketball Quarterfinals
March 22-23 – Boys Basketball Semifinals

NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 a 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.

Of the 99 games on this week’s SBP schedule, 65 at the varsity level will be covered, with more to be added as the week progresses. Fifty-five games will be produced by schools using Pixellot, the NFHS Network’s automated coverage solution. Be sure to check “Upcoming Events” on the MHSAA.tv home page daily for last-minute additions.

Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:

Tuesday – February 6

JV Boys Basketball - Genesee Christian at Montrose - 4 p.m.
Freshman Girls Basketball - Saline at Novi - 4 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Macomb Lutheran North, 4 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park, 4 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Vassar at Otisville Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Saline at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Genesee Christian at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Negaunee at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Ann Arbor Pioneer at Fowlerville - 6:59 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Vassar at Otisville Lakeville - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Saline at Novi - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Rochester Adams at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Genesee Christian at Montrose - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Farwell at Vestaburg - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Negaunee at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Edwardsburg at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Houghton at Marquette - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.

Wednesday – February 7

Boys Basketball – Ewen-Trout Creek vs. Dollar Bay at Michigan Tech - 7:15 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball – Ewen Trout-Creek vs. Dollar Bay at Michigan Tech - 5:30 p.m.
Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Otisville Lakeville - 5 p.m.
Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Comstock Park – 5:30 p.m.
Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Freeland - 6 p.m.
Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Lake Orion - 6 p.m.
Wrestling – MHSAA Team District at Comstock Park – 7 p.m.

Thursday – February 8

Freshman Boys Basketball – Sparta at Comstock Park – 4 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Big Rapids at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Sparta at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Roscommon at Harrison - 6 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey - Negaunee at Calumet - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Pontiac at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Big Rapids at Fremont - 7 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Sparta at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Escanaba at Marquette - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Baraga at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Roscommon at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.

Friday – February 9

Freshman Girls Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 4 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball - Detroit Loyola at Macomb Lutheran North - 4:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Burton Bendle at Otisville Lakeville - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Durand at Montrose - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Detroit Loyola at Macomb Lutheran North - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Ontonagon at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - West Iron County at Calumet - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Whittemore-Prescott at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Ionia at Fowlerville - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Otsego at Plainwell - 6 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Iron Mountain at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Whittemore-Prescott at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Durand at Montrose - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Ashley at Vestaburg - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Burton Bendle at Otisville Lakeville - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi - 7 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey - Port Huron Northern at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - West Iron County at Calumet - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Ontonagon at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - L'Anse at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Detroit Loyola at Macomb Lutheran North - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Ionia at Fowlerville - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Otsego at Plainwell - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Iron Mountain at Norway - 8 p.m.

Saturday – February 10

Wrestling – MHSAA Individual District at Montrose – 10 a.m.
Boys Ice Hockey – University of Detroit Jesuit at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 6:15 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey – Livonia Stevenson at Detroit Catholic Central - 7:30 p.m.

Monday – February 12

Freshman Girls Basketball - Warren Mott at Macomb Lutheran North - 4 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Watersmeet at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Mio at Rogers City - 6 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball – Bark River-Harris at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Mio at Rogers City - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Watersmeet at Dollar Bay - 7:20 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Bark River-Harris at Norway - 8 p.m.

Tuesday – February 13

Freshman Boys Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 4:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose - 4:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Greenville at Comstock Park - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Corunna at Fowlerville - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball – Stanton Central Montcalm at Fremont - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Baraga at Dollar Bay - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Munising at Norway - 6:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Merrill at Vestaburg - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Stanton Central Montcalm at Fremont - 7 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey - Houghton at Calumet - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Greenville at Comstock Park - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Saginaw Arts & Sciences at Montrose - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Corunna at Fowlerville - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Rochester at Lake Orion - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Baraga at Dollar Bay - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Wakefield-Marinesco at Lake Linden-Hubbell - 7:20 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Munising at Norway - 8 p.m.

Wednesday – February 14

Cheerleading – OK Conference at Comstock Park - 6:30 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 live stream games, but lacking the ability to staff the events. 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.

Highlights of games produced in the past week by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members

feature the following events – which both included game-winning buzzer-beaters in comeback efforts:

Girls Basketball – Charlevoix 50, Traverse City St. Francis 48
Boys Basketball – Brighton 57, Novi 56

Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.

With the winter sports season fully underway, StateChamps! High School Sports Show returns with new weekly editions debuting each Sunday at 9 a.m. on Fox Sports Detroit – featuring fresh editions of the MHSAA Minute.

The MHSAA Minute takes a look each week at different things happening in the life of the Association, from promoting educational programs to rules changes in high school sports. This week’s Minute talks about the School Broadcast Program. Archived editions of MHSAA Minute can be found on the StateChamps! YouTube Channel.

Highlights

Lake Orion Named SBP Best for 2018-19

By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director emeritus

May 7, 2019

Lake Orion High School has been named the “Program of the Year” to headline the MHSAA’s School Broadcast Program Excellence Awards for 2018-19.

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.

Lake Orion claimed the top spot in three of the five award categories and placed in all five categories, capturing seven individual awards. The program demonstrated a good blend in a variety of sports covered – at home and on the road – and an overall command of the PlayOn! Sports software used for graphics and inserting commercials/features during the course of productions.

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

Best Multicamera Production

First Place – Cedar Springs – Nathan Draper, Max VanderMeulen, Macie Huntoon, Katia Corwin, Mason Francis, Josh Allen, Jacob Meredith, Jacob Swinehart, Dylan Patterson, Austin Kibby, Tayvon Gardner, Rylee Kinzinger, Riley Smith – Football game v. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern.

Second Place – Lake Orion – Sienna Gibson, Kevin McCormick Jr., Teddy Hirschfield, Jacob Johr, Becca Hamilton, Derek Dungan, Amanda Pordon, Eric Maxwell, Hunter Chambers – Boys Basketball game v. Rochester Adams.

TIE - Third Place – Cedar Springs – Nathan Draper, Max VanderMeulen, Macie Huntoon, Katia Corwin, Mason Francis, Josh Allen, Jacob Meredith, Jacob Swinehart, Dylan Patterson, Austin Kibby, Tayvon Gardner, Rylee Kinzinger, Riley Smith – Football game v. Gaylord.

TIE – Third Place – Lake Orion – Sienna Gibson, Teddy Hirschfield, Kevin McCormick Jr., Isabella Larsen, Derek Dungan, Alexandra Hill, Jenna Gaylord, Becca Hamilton, Eric Maxwell, Amanda Pordon, Alex Gustanski – Boys Basketball game v. Clarkston.

Best Student Play-By-Play

First Place – Lake Orion – Kevin McCormick Jr. & Teddy Hirschfield – Boys Basketball game v. Rochester Adams.

Second Place – Lake Orion – Kevin McCormick Jr. & Teddy Hirschfield – Boys Basketball game v. Oxford.

Third Place – Montrose – Daniel Sackrider & Chase Hobson – Boys Basketball game v. Mt. Morris.

Best Produced Commercial/Feature

First Place – Lake Orion – Kalee Kniess & Ryan Hammond – Feature: Beyond The Lights-Kyle Loken

Second Place – Montrose - Molly Dunton, Chase Hobson, Gabe Patterson, Joe Wade, Tansy Cook – Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth Commercial.

Third Place – Montrose – David Sackrider – Unsportsmanlike Conduct Podcast Promo.

Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Graphics

First Place – Lake Orion – Hunter Chambers, Kevin McCormick Jr., Emily Penrose, Holden Dholakia, Josh McCaffrey – MHSAA Boys Basketball Quarterfinal game – Detroit U-D Jesuit v. Roseville.

Second Place – Cedar Springs – Clyde Dykhouse, Nathan Draper, Graham Bayink – Football game - Zeeland East v. East Grand Rapids.

Third Place – Montrose - David Sackrider, Daniel Sackrider, Alex Morrow, Libby Scott - Girls Basketball game v. Mt. Morris.

Best Use of PlayOn! Graphics/Software

First Place - Montrose - David Sackrider, Daniel Sackrider, Alex Morrow, Libby Scott - Girls Basketball game v. Mt. Morris.

Second Place – Lake Orion - Kevin McCormick Jr., Teddy Hirschfield, Kalee Kniess, Marc Studier – Boys Basketball game v. Clarkston.

PHOTOS: (Top) From left, Lake Orion's Kaleena Kniess, Jenna Gaylord, Becca Hamilton, Josh McCaffrey, and Derek Dungan broadcast a volleyball match this past fall. (Middle) The football crew of Delaney Rogers, Ryan Hammond and Kniess hit the road for a game. (Photos courtesy of the Lake Orion School Broadcast Program.)