Games Galore highlight MHSAA.tv
October 10, 2012
The fall season is winding down, but the opposite is true for MHSAA.tv and the School Broadcast Program, which produced 28 events last week covering a multitude of teams from all over Michigan.
See those listings below, plus links to the MHSAA Football Friday Overtime on Fox Sports Detroit and the Comcast/Xfinity game shot last week -- Grosse Pointe North vs. Grosse Pointe South -- plus a link to this week's MHSAA Perspective.
MHSAA.tv: Click on the "Schools" tab on MHSAA.tv to find these games:
- Atlanta vs. Hillman football
- L'Anse vs. Calumet football
- Rudyard vs. Rogers City football
- Sault Ste. Marie vs. Cheboygan football
- Traverse City West vs. Petoskey football
- AuGres vs. Mio football
- Manton vs. Lincoln Alcona football
- Johannesburg-Lewiston vs. Onaway football
- Parma Western vs. Mason football
- Lansing Sexton vs. East Lansing football
- Flint Southwestern vs. Davison football
- Pellston vs. Indian River Indian Lakes football
- Montrose vs. Flint Beecher football
- St. Johns vs. Mason swimming and diving
- Oscoda vs. Lincoln Alcona volleyball
- Taylor Truman vs. Trenton volleyball
- Kalamazoo Christian vs. Galesburg-Augusta volleyball
- Davison vs. Flint Powers Catholic volleyball
- Montrose vs. Goodrich volleyball
- Grand Ledge vs. East Lansing volleyball
- Brownstown Woodhaven vs. Allen Park volleyball
- Spring Lake vs. Ludington volleyball
- Alanson vs. Ellsworth volleyball
- Harbor Springs Harbor Light Christian vs. Cheboygan soccer
- Allen Park vs. Brownstown Woodhaven soccer
- Cheboygan vs. Roscommon soccer
- Oscoda vs. Lincoln Alcona soccer
- Mason vs. Jackson Lumen Christi soccer
- Also, click under "MHSAA" and "Recent" for the 1994 Class A Boys Soccer Final between Canton and Warren DeLaSalle, won in sudden-death overtime by Canton, 1-0.
FOX: At midnight after each Friday's games, Fox Sports Detroit airs its Football Friday Overtime. Last week, the show was expanded to an hour, with highlights from 13 games.
XFINITY: Friday's 17-15 Grosse Pointe South win over Grosse Pointe North is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.
MHSAA Perspective: Our John Johnson gives his take not on the NFL replacement officials, but rather, on how treatment of them by players and coaches set a poor example for those at the high school level - Listen
Below: This week's School Broadcast Program highlights, drawn from the L'Anse at Calumet, Flint Southwestern at Davison and Lansing Sexton at East Lansing football games, and a volleyball match between Montrose and Goodrich.
Division 3 Final: Eaglets Fly Again
November 29, 2011
Five times since its most recent MHSAA football championship, Orchard Lake St. Mary returned to the championship game – and lost.
Saturday night there was no stopping the Eaglets – or their running attack – at the Division 3 Final at Ford Field.
St. Mary rushed for 478 yards – and after near-misses the last two seasons won its first championship since 2000 with a 45-7 win over top-ranked Mount Pleasant.
"I knew what it felt like to lose, so it gave me the fire and other teammates the fire to win,” St. Mary senior running back Spencer McInnis said. “It’s unexplainable. It’s awesome. It’s something I’ve wanted since I was a kid. I always knew I was going to go to St. Mary’s. It’s just a great feeling.”
The Eaglets (12-2) had fallen by eight and three to East Grand Rapids in the last two Finals, and in a five-overtime classic in 2007. They entered the playoffs ranked No. 4 by The Associated Press – but as champions of the Detroit Catholic League Central, which sent three teams to Ford Field this fall.
“It was great to win again,” said St. Mary coach George Porritt, who finished his 23rd season leading the program. “It’s a collective effort from these kids, and it’s been all year long.”
McInnis ran for 213 of the team’s 478 rushing yards, and took three of his 23 carries into the end zone. Junior brother Parker McInnis ran for 96 yards and a score, as did junior fullback Grant Niemiec. Senior James Ross added another running touchdown.
“We were in position to make some tackles, and it wasn’t a scheme thing or guys getting blocked. It’s just that their athletes made our guys miss, or we couldn’t tackle them,” Mount Pleasant coach Jason McIntyre said. “I’ve never seen backs that we couldn’t tackle one on one or two on one. A lot of teams will have one great back, and you can focus and rally there. But they had three and four.”
The Oilers’ usually-strong running game finished with just 122 yards, led by senior quarterback Ryan Elliott’s 40. He also had Mount Pleasant’s lone score. It was the team’s first Finals appearance – and only loss this fall as it finished 13-1.
Junior defensive back Cory Williams led the Oilers with nine tackles. Senior lineman Dylan Zerki led the Eaglets with 11, and Ross had 10.