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 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.