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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 13, 2002
Contact: John Johnson or Randy Allen
517.332.5046 or www.mhsaa.com

EAST LANSING, Mich. - March 13 - The championship matches of the 2002 Michigan High School Athletic Association Girls Volleyball tournament will again be televised around the state on a tape-delayed basis on the MHSAA Championship Network, and highlights of the finals are scheduled to be shown on Fox Sports Net Detroit.

Six stations make up the network which will air championship matches in their entirety, with five of the six airing all four matches. The station and cable outlet lineup and match airtimes are as follows:

WLLA-TV (Channel 64) - Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek
Class D - March 18 - 6 p.m.
Class C - March 19 - 6 p.m.
Class A - March 20 - 6 p.m.
Class B - March 21 - 6 p.m.

WHTV (Channel 18) - Lansing, Jackson
Classes D & C - March 30 - 2 & 3:30 p.m.
Classes A & B - March 31 - 2 & 3:30 p.m.

WLUC-TV (Channel 6) - Marquette
Classes D & C - March 30 - 1 & 2:30 p.m.
Classes A & B - April 6 - 1 & 2:30 p.m.

WMKG-TV (Channel 40) - Muskegon
Classes D & C - March 26 - 7 & 8:30 p.m.
Classes A & B - April 2 - 7 & 8:30 p.m.

WLMB-TV (Channel 40) - Toledo
Class D - March 24 - 12:30 p.m.
Class C - March 28 - 8 p.m.
Class A - March 30 - 11 p.m.
Class B - March 31 - Midnight

WFQX-TV (Channel 33) - Cadillac, Alpena, Gaylord, Traverse City, Sault Ste. Marie
Game Involving Northern Michigan Teams or Wild Card game - March 23 - 2 p.m.

This is the 11th consecutive year that the MHSAA has televised the Girls Volleyball Finals around the state. Mark Crawford and Diana Davis will team to call two of the games, while Todd Arner and Lynn Rosendale will call the other two contests. The matches are also available to any cable system wishing to air them (Contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office for more information).


In addition to the complete game coverage, a one-hour highlights program from this year's finals is also being prepared to air on Fox Sports Net Detroit at 2 p.m. on April 14, to be hosted by Shireen Saski. Additional replay dates are yet to be announced

The telecasts of the championship matches and the highlights program are sponsored by Farm Bureau Insurance and Meemic Insurance.

The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,300 public and private senior high schools and junior high/middle schools which exists to develop common rules for athletic eligibility and competition. No government funds or tax dollars support the MHSAA, which was the first such association nationally to not accept membership dues or tournament entry fees from schools. Member schools which enforce these rules are permitted to participate in MHSAA tournaments, which attract approximately 1.6 million spectators each year.