Michigan High School Athletic Association - Promoting Educational Athletics
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 16, 2008 Grass Lake Baseball Final to Air Wednesday EAST LANSING, Mich. – June 16 – The Division 3championship game in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Baseball Tournament -- Grass Lake High School’s 14-4 win over Allendale -- will be televised on a delayed basis in the Jackson-Lansing area Wednesday (June 18) evening on WILX-DT at 7 p.m. The games will be shown on a WILX high definition sub channel that is normally programmed to carry weather and news throughout the day. Comcast Cable subscribers locally can watch the game on Channel 249; and many Broadstripe/Millennium Cable subscribers in the area can watch on channel 454. The signal is also available over the air on High Definition television sets using an external antenna. Joe Jason and Len Biglar of WCSY-FM in South Haven will call the action. The broadcast is part of an experiment by the Michigan High School Athletic Association during the latter portion of the 2007-08 school year to explore additional platforms for the video distribution of high school sports. WILX-DT previously aired two Semifinal games in the MHSAA Basketball Tournaments in March. The MHSAA had also made the Final games of last Saturday’s (June 14) Baseball and Softball Tournaments available live on the Internet on a pay-per-view basis at MHSAA.TV. The production of the Baseball Finals was handled by When We Were Young Productions. The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,600 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. -0- AT&T, Farm Bureau Insurance Henry Ford Health Systems and MEEMIC Insurance Company
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