Catch Finals Replays on Comcast
June 17, 2013
MHSAA Championships in baseball, softball and girls soccer will be shown on Comcast Channel 900 on a delayed basis several times over the next few weeks.
Here is the complete schedule of playbacks for each game:
Baseball
Division 1 – Bay City Western vs. Birmingham Brother Rice -- June 18, 7 p.m.; June 19, 8 a.m.; June 30, 6 p.m.; July 13, 9:30 p.m.
Division 2 – Grand Rapids Christian vs. Richmond - June 18, 9:30 p.m.; June 19, 10:30 a.m.; June 30, 3 p.m.; July 14, 9 a.m.
Division 3 – Madison Heights Bishop Foley vs. Bridgman - June 22, 7 p.m.; June 23, 9 a.m.; July 4, 9:30 p.m.; July 17, 10:30 a.m.
Division 4 – Beal City vs. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett - June 22, 9:30 a.m.; June 23, Noon; July 4, 7 p.m.; July 17, 8 a.m.
Softball
Division 1 – Bay City Western vs. Garden City - June 20, 7 p.m.; June 21, Noon; July 2, 9:30 p.m.; July 14, Noon
Division 2 – Saginaw Swan Valley vs. Linden - June 20, 9:30 p.m.; June 22, 8 a.m.; July 2, 7 p.m.; July 14, 6 p.m.
Division 3 – Unionville-Sebewaing vs. Holton - June 25, 7 p.m.; June 26, 8 a.m.; July 5, Noon; July 16, 7 p.m.
Division 4 – Kalamazoo Christian vs. Rogers City - June 25, 9:30 a.m.; June 26, 10:30 a.m.; July 6, 8 a.m.; July 16, 7 p.m.
Girls Soccer
Division 1 – Grandville vs. Troy - June 27, 7 p.m.; June 28, Noon; July 3, 8 a.m.; July 18, 7 p.m.
Division 2 – Grand Rapids South Christian vs. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep - June 27, 9:30 p.m.; June 29, 8 a.m.; July 3, 10:30 a.m.; July 18, 9:30 p.m.
Division 3 – Richland Gull lake vs. Bloomfield Hills Marian - June 29, 7 p.m.; June 30, 9 a.m.; July 9, 9:30 p.m.; July 19, Noon
Division 4 – Grandville Calvin Christian vs. Clarkston Everest Collegiate/Waterford Our Lady - June 29, 9:30 p.m.; June 30, Noon; July 11, 7 p.m.; July 20, 8 a.m.
DVD’s of the game videos are available through the MHSAA.tv website.
Division 7 Final: Blue Streak
November 29, 2011
DETROIT – Only a few drives into the MHSAA Division 7 Final, Bennett Lewis came to Saginaw Nouvel coach Mike Boyd with a request.
Give me the ball until Pewamo-Westphalia stops me.
Never happened. The senior running back ran for five touchdowns, and his Panthers scored 56 points – both to set or tie MHSAA Finals records.
And both were accomplished over just two quarters as Nouvel cruised to a 56-26 win and its third football championship.
“I can’t say enough how proud I am of my teammates, especially the offensive line. We’ve been playing together a long time and they really executed in the first half,” Lewis said. “Their defense is one of the defenses we can run our offense against really well. We just executed and made big plays. ”
This championship goes with Nouvel’s back-to-back Division 6 titles in 2006 and 2007, and the Panthers finished 13-0 to match their perfect record in 2006. Pewamo-Westphalia made its first appearance in an MHSAA Football Final and finished 13-1.
The Panthers had scored 63 and 62 points, respectively, during the first two rounds of the postseason. And as Boyd said after, he had an offense built for speedy strikes – especially at an inside venue like Ford Field.
Nouvel blew past the previous MHSAA Finals record of 42 points in one half set by both Farmington Hills Harrison in 2000 and Jackson Lumen Christi in 2001.
“Maybe our third drive, Bennett came off the field and came right up to me and said, ‘I want the football. Until they stop me, give me the football,’” Nouvel coach Mike Boyd said. “I said, ‘Absolutely.’
“Great competitors, great leaders. Just a great group.”
Lewis, the Associated Press’ Division 7-8 Player of the Year this fall, ran 15 times for 200 yards – all in the first half – to push his season rushing total to 2,077. The five touchdowns gave him 36 rushing for the fall. Senior quarterback Joseph Buchalski was 7 for 10 passing for 196 yards and three scores. He also ran five times for 50 yards – again, all in the first half.
“That’s the best team I’ve ever played. The fastest. (And) I don’t hesitate to say Bennett Lewis is the best player I’ve ever played,” P-W senior quarterback/cornerback Justin Thelen said. “We fought, and I’m proud of that. But they had us on our heels right away.”
Thelen was 10 for 21 passing for 176 yards and two touchdowns, and senior Alex Thelen ran 16 times for 77 yards and a score. It was a tough end to a courageous run by the Pirates, who suffered through the death of classmate and baseball teammate Brendon Nurenberg in a car crash earlier this month, but battled through with his memory an additional motivator.
“He was just a fun guy. The guys loved being around him. And the guys rallied around that,” P-W coach Brad Weber said. “They did it for Brendon for the most part. They knew he would have fun, so they did too.”