Playoffs are Here on MHSAA.tv

October 25, 2012

Boys soccer District games were among exciting additions to MHSAA.tv last week, plus football league championship games between Montrose and Lake Fenton and Watervliet and Lawton. 

MHSAA.tv and the School Broadcast Program coverage also included volleyball and swimming and diving events.

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 Ile vs. Riverview -- plus a link to this week's MHSAA Perspective.

MHSAA.tv: Click on the "Schools" tab on MHSAA.tv to find these games:

  • North Branch vs. Yale football
  • Central Lake vs. Rudyard football
  • Pickford vs. Onaway football
  • East Jordan vs. Charlevoix football
  • Mancelona vs. Indian River Inland Lakes football
  • Montrose vs. Lake Fenton football
  • Gaylord vs. St. Johns football
  • Lawton vs. Watervliet football
  • Lansing Eastern vs. East Lansing soccer
  • Brownstown Woodhaven vs. Dearborn Heights Crestwood soccer
  • Sparta vs. Cedar Springs soccer
  • Haslett vs. Owosso soccer
  • DeWitt vs. East Lansing soccer
  • Taylor Truman vs. Trenton soccer
  • Lansing Eastern vs. St. Johns soccer
  • Haslett vs. East Lansing soccer
  • Grand Haven vs. Rockford volleyball
  • Posen vs. Hillman volleyball
  • Montrose vs. Perry volleyball
  • Houghton vs. Calumet volleyball
  • Mancelona vs. Onaway volleyball
  • Rogers City vs. Cheboygan volleyball
  • Lake Linden-Hubbell vs. Calumet volleyball
  • Charlevoix vs. Grayling volleyball
  • Grand Haven vs. Rockford swimming and diving
  • Also, click under "MHSAA" and "Recent" for the 1997 Class C Football Final between Decatur and Ravenna, won by Ravenna 48-26 thanks in part to four touchdowns by Willy Rolison.

FOX: At 11:30 p.m. after each Friday's games, Fox Sports Detroit airs its one-hour Football Friday Overtime with highlights from all over the state.

XFINITY: Friday's 21-7 O-K White-deciding win by Grand Rapids Christian over Lowell is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.

MHSAA Perspective: Our John Johnson discusses the need for values-based school sports programs - Listen

Below: This week's School Broadcast Program highlights include clips from Menominee/Petoskey, Gaylord/St. Johns and Yale/North Branch football games and the soccer District matchup of Lansing Eastern and St. Johns.

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)