Watch Games Now on MHSAA.tv
October 17, 2012
MHSAA.tv and the School Broadcast Program continues to deliver broadcasts of many of the top teams from all over Michigan, including coverage of football, volleyball, soccer and swimming and diving last week.
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:
- Indian River Inland Lakes vs. Rogers City football
- Benzie Central vs. Cheboygan football
- Davison vs. Romulus football
- Kalamazoo Christian vs. Battle Creek Pennfield football
- Grand Ledge vs. East Lansing football
- Comstock vs. Plainwell football
- Perry vs. Montrose football
- Trenton vs. Brownstown Woodhaven football
- Gaylord St. Mary vs. Indian River Inland Lakes volleyball
- Newberry vs. Cheboygan volleybal
- Bellaire vs. Onaway volleyball
- Rudyard vs. Rogers City volleyball
- Jackson Northwest vs. Mason volleyball
- Gibraltar Carlson vs. Brownstown Woodhaven volleyball
- Cedar Springs vs. Greenville volleyball
- L'Anse vs. Calumet volleyball
- Fremont vs. Ludington swimming and diving
- South Haven vs. Plainwell soccer
- Sparta vs. Comstock Park soccer
- Gibraltar Carlson vs. Brownstown Woodhaven soccer
- Also, click under "MHSAA" and "Recent" for the 1992 Class C Football Final between Harper Woods Bishop Gallagher and Traverse City St. Francis, won by St. Francis 28-21 in double overtime.
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 40-13 Grosse Ile win over Riverview is available to subscribers On Demand on Xfinity's High School Sports site.
MHSAA Perspective: Our John Johnson explains how teams qualify for the MHSAA Football Playoffs, and how they are placed into divisions and brackets - Listen
Below: This week's School Broadcast Program highlights, including clips from the Perry at Montrose and Benzie Central at Cheboygan football games, Plainwell's 1-0 upset of South Haven in boys soccer and a volleyball match between Bellaire and Onaway.
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.”