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Lacrosse Dominates MHSAA TV Schedule
April 23, 2019
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Here is the schedule for Spring sporting events to be streamed live on MHSAA.tv from April 23-May 7:
Tuesday - April 23
JV Softball – Niles at Stevensville Lakeshore – 3:55 PM
JV Boys Lacrosse - Canton at Novi - 5 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Canton at Novi - 6:30 PM
Wednesday - April 24
JV Girls Lacrosse - Northville at Novi - 5 PM
Freshman Boys Lacrosse - Plymouth at Brighton - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Lacrosse - Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Saline - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Lacrosse - Fenton at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Northville at Novi - 6:30 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Plymouth at Brighton - 7 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Temperance Bedford at Saline - 7 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Fenton at Saginaw Heritage - 7:30 PM
Thursday - April 25
Girls Soccer - Clare at Ithaca - 5:30 PM
Girls Soccer - Adrian Lenawee Christian at Manchester - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Lacrosse - Midland at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Soccer - Jackson at Saline - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Lacrosse - Flint Powers Catholic at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
Girls Soccer - Jackson at Saline - 7 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Midland at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Rochester Adams at Lake Orion - 7 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Flint Powers Catholic at Saginaw Heritage - 7:30 PM
Friday - April 26
JV Girls Lacrosse - Lake Orion at Novi - 5 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Lake Orion at Novi - 6:30 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Madison Heights Bishop Foley at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 7 PM
Saturday - April 27
JV Boys Lacrosse - Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Grand Blanc - 10AM
Boys Lacrosse - Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Grand Blanc - 12PM
Monday - April 29
JV Girls Soccer - Macomb L'Anse Creuse North at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 4:30 PM
JV Boys Lacrosse - Howell at Novi - 5 PM
Girls Soccer - Saginaw Nouvel at Ithaca - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Lacrosse - Ann Arbor Skyline at Saline - 5:30 PM
Girls Soccer - Macomb L'Anse Creuse North at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 6 PM
JV Boys Lacrosse - Grand Blanc at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
Girls Soccer - Mason at Fowlerville - 6:30 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Howell at Novi - 6:30 PM
Girls Soccer - Saginaw Valley Lutheran at Freeland - 7 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Ann Arbor Skyline at Saline - 7 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Grand Blanc at Saginaw Heritage - 7:30 PM
Tuesday - April 30
Softball – St. Joseph at Stevensville Lakeshore – 3:55 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Temperance Bedford at Toledo Clay - 5 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Flint Powers Catholic at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Soccer - Ann Arbor Pioneer at Saline - 5:30 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Northville at Brighton - 6 PM
Girls Soccer - Ann Arbor Pioneer at Saline - 7 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Flint Powers Catholic at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Clarkston at Lake Orion - 7 PM
Wednesday - May 1
JV Girls Lacrosse - Brighton at Novi - 5 PM
Freshman Boys Lacrosse - Novi at Brighton - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Lacrosse - White Lake Lakeland - 5:30 PM
Girls Soccer - Vicksburg at Plainwell - 6 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Brighton at Novi - 6:30 PM
Girls Lacrosse - White Lake Lakeland - 7 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Novi at Brighton - 7 PM
Thursday - May 2
Softball – Portage Central at Stevensville Lakeshore – 3:55 PM
Girls Soccer - Blissfield at Manchester - 5:30 PM
JV Boys Lacrosse - Lapeer at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Davison at Brighton - 6 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Detroit Cass Tech at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 7 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Lapeer at Saginaw Heritage - 7:30 PM
Friday - May 3
JV Girls Lacrosse - Grand Blanc at White Lake Lakeland - 5:30 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Hudsonville at Brighton - 6 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Ann Arbor Huron at Saline - 7 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Grand Blanc at White Lake Lakeland - 7 PM
Monday - May 6
JV Girls Soccer - Sterling Heights Stevenson at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 4:30 PM
JV Boys Lacrosse - Northville at Novi - 5 PM
Girls Soccer - Grass Lake at Manchester - 5:30 PM
Girls Soccer - Sterling Heights Stevenson at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 6 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Northville at Novi - 6:30 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Ann Arbor Huron at Saline - 7 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Wixom St. Catherine at White Lake Lakeland - 7 PM
Tuesday - May 7
Softball - Oxford at Lake Orion - 4:30 PM
JV Girls Lacrosse - Midland at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
JV Girls Soccer - South Lyon East at White Lake Lakeland - 5:30 PM
Boys Lacrosse - Auburn Hills Avondale at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 7 PM
Girls Soccer - South Lyon East at White Lake Lakeland - 7 PM
Girls Lacrosse - Midland at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
In its 10th 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. Pixellot – the NFHS Network’s automated streaming solution – is used by schools wishing to live stream games but lacking the ability to staff events. The SBP also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 a month. 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. School Broadcast Program participants also are selling Season and Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA Website.
1975 Class D Football Film Finds Way Back to MHSAA for All to Enjoy Again
By
John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director emeritus
April 11, 2023
Chasing history was one of the most enjoyable parts of serving at the MHSAA for nearly 34 years. Researching information, but especially what I considered for a long time to be talking to the “old guys” (now I’m one of them) and soaking up their verbal histories of our games.
It also involved chasing down old photos, broadcasts and game films – especially those which preceded our more modern video era beginning in the 1990s.
When I arrived at the MHSAA in 1987, there was a shelf of old 16mm film canisters of an assortment of Boys Basketball Finals from the 1950s to the 70s – certainly not a complete set. The Association would shoot some game action from each quarter and the trophy presentations. They’d be sent out to the participating schools to show to the students (I remember watching a Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart game in 1967 when I was in fifth grade). Some would find their way back to the office – most would not.
Will Robinson, the legendary Detroit Public School League coach who led Pershing High School to the league’s first MHSAA titles (in 1967 and 1970) after a district-imposed hiatus from 1931-61 from statewide tournaments, would pull my chain every time we saw each other about those games featuring Spencer Haywood and Ralph Simpson, among others. We never found them.
So it became a project to try and track down as many old game films of state championships as we could.
Any conversation with someone with a history tone always included a question about the whereabouts of a game film or video. One of those recently bore fruit.
When Crystal Falls Forest Park played in the 8-Player Football Finals at the Superior Dome in Marquette back in 2017, I spent a lot of time talking with living legend Bill Santilli, who led the Trojans to the Class D crown in the very first year of the tournament in 1975, and who would later coach the school to a second state title (2007) and serve as athletic director. He said he had a box on his desk collecting dust that he didn’t know what to do with – that box contained an old video tape from that game.
I uttered four little words – “Send It To Me.”
After a while the tape arrived in East Lansing, and I got our video production friends at When We Were Young Productions/Rush Media in Wisconsin on it. This winter, they found someone who could convert it and sent me a file that was recently posted to the MHSAASPORTS Channel on YouTube. You can watch the Trojans play Flint Holy Rosary by Clicking Here or watching above.
There are all kinds of old game films/videos and artifacts in attics, closets, garages, etc., in every town. Two of our Muskegon historians – Ron Pesch, the MHSAA’s history guy; and the old broadcaster, Jim Moyes, who called games on the radio for years in the Port City – can tell stories of their own about discoveries they have made. Moyes found all kinds of mementos while working on his book on the history of high school track & field in Michigan, and sitting with Ron at this year’s Girls Basketball Finals, he told a story of finding the mother lode of photographs from one of his other historical passions – silent film star Buster Keaton – who spent ten summers in the Actor’s Colony in Muskegon.
Pesch found a listing for Eleanor Keaton, Buster’s widow, using a telephone book (remember those?), made a phone call and shortly thereafter, on a vacation to California, was in her living room where he was loaned a photo album and family scrapbook containing all kinds of images from their time in Muskegon. Many of those images appear in a soon-to-be-released documentary, while the album and scrapbook now reside in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library in Beverly Hills, Calif. You can preview the film by Clicking Here.
So if you think you have something of a state championship that could be utilized on a bigger platform and enjoyed by everyone, drop a note to [email protected]. If something needs to be converted to a more modern format, you’ll get a copy back, and the footage will be eventually viewable on the MHSAA’s YouTube channel.
To help guide your search, think in the following terms:
► Just about anything before 1990. But there are gaps during the 90s that need to be filled as well.
► Only Championship games and Semifinal games, unless something momentous occurred (like Richie Jordan’s 60-point game for Fennville against Bridgman in a Regional Semifinal in 1965, which is still an all-time tournament single-game record for boys basketball).
► For a list of what’s in the MHSAA archives prior to 2000 – Click Here. A long-term project is to get all of the games on the list and up to about 2010 uploaded to the YouTube channel. Most games from 2013-14 on can be viewed on the NFHS Network, and some games between 2010 and 2013 are available for purchase as DVDs from PrepFilms.com.
PHOTO Posing with the championship trophy after the 1975 Class D Football Final are (left to right): Forest Park tight end Bryan LaChapelle, quarterback Richard Mettlach, head coach Dick Mettlach and running back Bill Santilli.