Hits, Runs and Goals Dominate MHSAA.tv
May 22, 2013
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
Girls soccer, baseball and softball games featuring a combined 21 teams from 16 schools were among student broadcasts uploaded last week to MHSAA.tv.
Also, a pair of MHSAA Classics have been brought out of the vault, including a championship story told by one of the most recognizable voices in Michigan sports history.
Longtime Detroit Tigers broadcaster Paul Carey called the 1992 MHSAA Class D Baseball Final, an 8-7 win by Hillman over Athens that was decided in the bottom of the seventh inning. Also added this week was the 1992 Class B Softball Final between Hudsonville Unity Christian and Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central, another nail-biter, won by Unity Christian 7-6. The Hillman/Athens game is posted below, while the Unity Christian/St. Mary game can be found on MHSAA.tv.
Both can be watched by clicking the video boxes under last week's list of MHSAA.tv broadcasts below:
- Plainwell vs. Comstock soccer
- Houghton Lake vs. Cheboygan soccer
- Plainwell vs. Jenison soccer
- Ludington vs. Tawas soccer
- Ludington vs. Bay City John Glenn soccer
- Ludington vs. Gaylord soccer
- Newberry vs. Rogers City baseball
- Ludington vs. Fruitport baseball
- Indian River Indian Lakes vs. Central Lake baseball
- Sault Ste. Marie vs. Petoskey softball
- Newberry vs. Rogers City softball
- Ludington vs. Manistee Catholic Central softball
Following Olling's Championship Run
December 16, 2011
The MHSAA Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals were run Saturday at Michigan International Speedway. We followed Breckenridge sophomore Kirsten Olling as she won her second straight Division 4 championship.
She won in 18:02.7, giving her four MHSAA championships so far in her high school career. She also won the 3,200 and 1,600-meter races at last spring's Divsion 4 Track and Field Final.
Finally, a few "By the Numbers:"
--1,973 total runners at this fall's Finals
--Breakdown by class: 641 seniors, 591 juniors, 418 sophomores, 321 freshmen, two 8th graders (8th graders can compete on high school teams for schools with enrollments below 100)