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Follow Stats Live on NFHS Network

September 7, 2016

By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director

Each week, football fans can track the progress of a number of games across the state on the MHSAA.tv website through the NFHS Network’s partnership with Digital Scout.

Schools using Digital Scout to record game statistics can connect that game to the online crowd, and if the game has live streaming video, the two feeds will be integrated. Viewers must have a subscription to be able to access the live content. More than 40 football games this Friday (Sept. 9) are scheduled to stream live stats.

The NFHS Network has announced new pricing for 2016-17, eliminating the Day Pass and lowering the cost of a Month Pass to $9.95. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country. All content becomes available for free, on demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live. Some schools also will be selling Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.

Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams available being produced by SBP members, as well as live stats from MHSAA member schools using Digital Scout:

Wednesday (Sept. 7)

Thursday (Sept. 8)

Friday (Sept. 9)

  • Football – Traverse City West vs. Traverse City Central – 6:15 p.m. LIVE VIDEO & STATS
  • Football – Goodrich at Montrose – 6:45 p.m. - LIVE
  • Football – Sault Ste. Marie at Marquette – 7 p.m. – LIVE
  • Football – Muskegon Mona Shores at Rockford - 7 p.m. – LIVE
  • Football – Whittemore-Prescott at Oscoda – 7 p.m. - LIVE
  • Football – Pewamo-Westphalia at Saranac – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Davison at Flint Carman-Ainsworth – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Fraser at Grosse Pointe South – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Haslett at Owosso – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Brown City at Cass City – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Sturgis at Paw Paw – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Lansing Catholic at Allendale – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Grosse Pointe Woods Univ. Liggett at Roch. Hills Lutheran Northwest – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Sanford Meridian at Roscommon – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Calumet at Hurley (WI) – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Jackson Lumen Christi at Battle Creek Harper Creek – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern at Grand Rapids South Christian – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Okemos at Lansing Everett – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Onsted at Erie-Mason – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Lake Odessa Lakewood at Perry – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Lake Odessa at West Bloomfield – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Cedar Springs at Greenville – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Mishawaka Penn at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Harbor Beach at Reese – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Holland West Ottawa at Caledonia – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Lansing Sexton at Grand Ledge – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Saginaw Heritage at Midland Dow – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Gladstone at Negaunee – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Holly at Flint Kearsley – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Midland at Flint Southwestern – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Lansing Waverly at Dewitt – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Goodrich at Montrose – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Hanover-Horton at Manchester – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Addison at Vandercook Lake – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Ida at Blissfield – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Comstock Park at Coopersville – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Laingsburg at Dansville – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – St. Clair at Clinton Twp. Clintondale – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Genesee at New Lothrop – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Beaverton at Houghton Lake – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Stanton Central Montcalm at Grant – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – North Muskegon at Muskegon Oakridge – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Ottawa Lake-Whiteford at Britton-Macon – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Stephenson at Crystal Falls Forest Park – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Onekama at Baldwin – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Oxford at Clarkston – 7 p.m. (Stats)
  • Football – Plymouth at Grand Blanc – 7 p.m. (Stats)

Saturday (Sept. 10)

  • Boys Soccer – Mason at East Lansing – 11:30 a.m. (On Demand)
  • Football – Grand Traverse Academy at Lawrence – 3 p.m. (Stats)

Now in its eighth year, the School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.  

Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office. 

A weekly staple on the MHSAA.tv website and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube is back for another year with highlights of selected games last week produced by members of the Association’s School Broadcast Program.

This week’s highlights package consists of clips from football games between Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion, South Haven at Dowagiac and Montrose at Clio.

Montrose SBP

Ford Field Trip Gives Students Taste of Football Finals Broadcasting

By Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

December 7, 2021

DETROIT – An hour before kickoff of the first game of 11-Player Football Finals weekend – the Division 8 championship decider between Hudson and Beal City – Bally Sports Detroit announcers Evan Stockton and Rob Rubick were busy preparing to call the action from the television booth on the third level of Ford Field.

Four levels above them, in the press box, a group of prospective broadcasters were touring the facilities. The high school students had spent the Fall sports season streaming games to the NFHS Network and now were learning about a career in broadcasting from Eric Vandefifer, a Montrose High grad currently serving as the radio voice of Saginaw Valley State University basketball and as a contributor to a variety of high school broadcast channels including the MHSAA Network.

Seven years ago, Vandefifer was in a similar situation. He was part of a field trip to Ford Field for the Finals that helped him realize sports broadcasting was a career he wanted to pursue. Those field trips were headed by Tom Skinner and Thom Lengyel, who became mentors to Vandefifer. As a high school junior in 2017, Vandefifer was named Best Student Broadcaster nationally by the NFHS Network.

Mount Pleasant SBP“With Tom Skinner now deceased and Thom Lengyel retired from the broadcast business, I just felt like I had to continue this and their legacy,” Vandefifer said. “It was important to me to keep it going because when I was in school, it was something I looked forward to.”

Nearly 50 students from Lowell, Montrose, Lake Orion, Mount Pleasant and Ann Arbor Greenhills high schools made the Nov. 26-27 trip to Ford Field. They were able to film highlights, interview players, practice announcing the games, meet other members of the press and more. For Vandefifer, giving back to students who are in the position he once was is very rewarding.

“We had the ability to feel like real media members for a day. I wanted to be able to give other students that same opportunity,” Vandefifer said. “Seeing kids who have a love for sportscasting and that drive to get better gives me real hope for the next generation in this business.”  

And after the field trips were done each day, Vandefifer put his headphones on, got behind the microphone and called the two afternoon games for the MHSAA Championship Network.

PHOTOS (Top) Eighth grader Sam Belill, left, and freshman Owen Leitelt from Montrose practice calling a game from the Ford Field press box. (Middle) Mount Pleasant make a stop at the press conference room. (Photos provided by the Montrose and Mount Pleasant School Broadcast Programs.)