MHSAA Minute Returns This Week

January 9, 2018

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
 

With the winter sports season fully underway, StateChamps! High School Sports Show returns with new weekly editions debuting each Sunday at 9 a.m. on Fox Sports Detroit – featuring a fresh series of messages called the MHSAA Minute.
 
The MHSAA Minute takes a look each week at different things happening in the life of the Association, from promoting educational programs to rules changes in high school sports. The first of two messages will air this week on high school rules changes in basketball. Archived editions of MHSAA Minute can be found on the StateChamps! YouTube Channel.
 
This week’s schedule of high school sporting events on MHSAA.tv produced by Association members taking part in the School Broadcast Program features 100 contests.
 
A total of 57 games at the varsity level are on the schedule for this week, with more to be added as the week progresses. Be sure to check Upcoming Events on the MHSAA.tv home page daily for last-minute additions.
 
In its ninth 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 that wish to live stream games but lack the ability to staff the events. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions
 
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members:
 
Tuesday - Jan. 9
Freshman Girls Basketball – Morley-Stanwood at Fremont  - 4 p.m.
Freshman Girls Basketball - Vicksburg at Plainwell  - 4:15 p.m.
Freshman Girls Basketball - Warren Regina at Macomb Lutheran North  - 4:30 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball - Houghton Lake at Harrison  - 4:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Byron at Montrose  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park  - 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Northville at Novi  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Central Montcalm at Fremont  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Ontonagon at Calumet  - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Vicksburg at Plainwell  - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Whittemore-Prescott at Rogers City  - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Midland Bullock Creek at Freeland  - 6 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Warren Regina at Macomb Lutheran North  - 6 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Houghton Lake at Harrison  - 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Northville at Novi  - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park  - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Warren Regina at Macomb Lutheran North  - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Whittemore-Prescott at Rogers City  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Byron at Montrose  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Tawas Area at Alpena  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – St. Johns at Fowlerville  - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Central Montcalm at Fremont  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Merrill at Vestaburg – 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Vicksburg at Plainwell  - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Ontonagon at Calumet  - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Bessemer at Lake Linden-Hubbell  - 7:20 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Midland Bullock Creek at Freeland  - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Houghton Lake at Harrison  - 7:30 p.m.
 
Wednesday - Jan. 10
Wrestling - Central Montcalm at Fremont  - 5:30 p.m.
Wrestling - Alma at Freeland  - 6 p.m.
Cheerleading – OAA Meet at Lake Orion - 6:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Ishpeming at Negaunee – 7:30 p.m.
 
Thursday - Jan. 11
Freshman Boys Basketball - Burton Bendle at Otisville-Lakeville  - 4 p.m.
Freshman Boys Basketball - Carrollton at Freeland  - 4:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Sparta at Comstock Park  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Durand at Montrose  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Burton Bendle at Otisville-Lakeville  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Newaygo at Fremont  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Hancock at Dollar Bay  - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Carrollton at Freeland  - 6 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Mio at Rogers City  - 6 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Newaygo at Fremont  - 7 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Burton Bendle at Otisville-Lakeville  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Mio at Rogers City  - 7 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Durand at Montrose  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Hancock at Dollar Bay  - 7:15 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Carrollton at Freeland  - 7:30 p.m.
 
Friday - Jan. 12
Freshman Girls Basketball – Warren Woods-Tower at Macomb Lutheran North  - 4 p.m.
Freshman Girls Basketball - Coopersville at Fremont  - 4:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Dollar Bay  - 5:45 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Sparta at Comstock Park  - 6 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball – Sanford Meridian at Harrison  - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Fowlerville at Williamston  - 6 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Newaygo at Fremont  - 6 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey – Detroit U-D Jesuit at Calumet  - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Carson City-Crystal at Vestaburg – 7 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey - Detroit Catholic Central at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood  - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Wyoming Kelloggsville at Wyoming Lee – 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Republic-Michigamme at Dollar Bay  - 7:20 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Fowlerville at Williamston  - 7:27 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Newaygo at Fremont  - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Sparta at Comstock Park  - 7:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Sanford Meridian at Harrison  - 7:30 p.m.
 
Saturday - Jan. 13
Swimming and Diving - Marquette   - 10  a.m.
Boys Ice Hockey – Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Detroit Catholic Central  - 6:15 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey – Detroit U-D Jesuit at Calumet  - 7 p.m.
 
Monday - Jan. 15
Cheerleading – OK Meet at Comstock Park  - 5 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Marion at Harrison  - 6 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - North Dickinson at Norway  - 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Oxford at Lake Orion  - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Marion at Harrison  - 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball - North Dickinson at Norway  - 8 p.m.
 
Tuesday - Jan. 16
Freshman Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Otisville-Lakeville  - 4 p.m.
Freshman Girls Basketball - Comstock at Plainwell  - 4:15 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Kent City at Comstock Park  - 4:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Genesee at Montrose  - 5:30 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Comstock at Plainwell  - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Dollar Bay  - 5:45 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Houghton at Calumet  - 5:45 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Otisville-Lakeville  - 6 p.m.
JV Boys Basketball - Lake City at Harrison  - 6 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Onaway at Rogers City  - 6 p.m.
JV Girls Basketball - Stephenson at Norway  - 6:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Onaway at Rogers City  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Kent City at Comstock Park  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Ferndale at Lake Orion  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Otisville-Lakeville  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Mason at Fowlerville  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Livonia Stevenson at Novi  - 7 p.m.
Boys Ice Hockey - Escanaba at Marquette  - 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Genesee at Montrose  - 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Houghton at Calumet  - 7:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Comstock at Plainwell  - 7:15 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Grant at Fremont  - 7:19 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Lake Linden-Hubbell at Dollar Bay  - 7:20 p.m.
Boys Basketball - Lake City at Harrison - 7:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball - Stephenson at Norway - 8 p.m.
 
Wednesday - Jan. 17
Wrestling - Paw Paw at Plainwell  - 5:30 p.m.
Cheerleading - Lake Fenton at Montrose  - 6 p.m.
 
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 will also be 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.

Highlights of games produced in the past week by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members feature the following events:
 
Boys Basketball – Fremont 54, Big Rapids 49
Girls Basketball – Wakefield-Marinesco 56, Dollar Bay 54 (OT)
Boys Basketball – Harrison 48, Roscommon 40
 
Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube

Network Loaded with Playoff Action

November 3, 2020

By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

To say there’s a lot of great high school action in the coming week on the MHSAA.tvMHSAANetwork.com and FOXSportsDetroit.com websites is an understatement.

More Girls Volleyball Tournament action than ever before runs throughout a week culminating with more than 50 Football Playoff games, the Boys Soccer Finals and two days of Cross Country Finals.

The Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals will take place Friday and Saturday (Nov. 6-7) at Michigan International Speedway, with a modified format. There will be two heats in each division for each gender.  The first race will include third-place Regional team finishers and individual qualifiers, with the second race made up of teams that finished first or second at Regionals. 

The Cross Country coverage is enhanced this year with an additional camera on the back of the course to better capture the first 800 meters, and the 1.5-mile and 2.25-mile marks of the race. The traditional Finish Line camera also will cover the action, with commentary from a crew of announcers. 

Here’s the schedule:

Friday – Nov. 6
Division 1 Finals - Boys at 9:30 and 10 a.m. - Girls at 11 and 11:30 a.m.
Division 2 Finals - Boys at 1:30 and 2 p.m. - Girls at 3 and 3:30 p.m.
 
Saturday – Nov. 7
Division 3 Finals  - Boys at 9:30 and 10 a.m. - Girls at 11 and 11:30 a.m.
Division 4 Finals - Boys at 1:30 and 2 p.m. - Girls at 3 and 3:30 p.m.

On Saturday the Boys Soccer Finals will have live audio and video streaming of its championship games from Novi and Comstock Park High Schools. Two games will be played at each site with the game times set for Noon and 3 p.m. The finalists will be determined following Semifinal play on Wednesday (Nov. 4), with all four of those games being streaming live video on MHSAA.tv and live audio on MHSAANetwork.com.

Lots of Football Playoff games will take place beginning Friday evening with three featured games as part of the FOX Sports Detroit “Game of the Week” and the FOX Sports Prep Zone.  All of these games can be seen on FoxSportsDetroit.com and on FOX Sports Go! for handheld and streaming devices like Roku. Here are this weekend games:

  • Hudsonville at Rockford – Prep Zone – Friday, 7 p.m.
  • Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Muskegon Mona Shores – Prep Zone – Friday, 7 p.m.
  • Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley at Rochester Hills Stoney Creek – FOX Sports Detroit “Game of the Week” – Friday, 7:30 p.m.

MHSAA.tv will play host to more than 50 District Semifinal Football Playoff games over the weekend, most produced by participants in the School Broadcast Program with traditional student crews or Pixellot units. The NFHS Network is providing bonus coverage of one additional game on Friday – Bath at Laingsburg. Here’s the complete schedule: 

Friday - Nov. 6
Suttons Bay  vs. Whittemore-Prescott   - 6 PM
Whitehall  vs. Coopersville   - 6 PM
Montrose  vs. Chesaning   - 6:40 PM
Adrian Lenawee Christian vs. Mayville   - 6:50 PM
DeWitt  vs. Lansing Waverly   - 6:50 PM
Lowell  vs. Caledonia   - 6:55 PM
Belleville  vs. Northville   - 7 PM
Birmingham Seaholm  vs. Birmingham Groves   - 7 PM
Brownstown Woodhaven  vs. Dearborn   - 7 PM
Cadillac  vs. Alma   - 7 PM
Cass City  vs. Sandusky   - 7 PM
Charlevoix  vs. Mancelona   - 7 PM
Corunna  vs. Richmond   - 7 PM
Detroit Catholic Central  vs. Novi   - 7 PM
East Grand Rapids  vs. Holland   - 7 PM
East Lansing  vs. Portage Central   - 7 PM
Fenton  vs. North Farmington   - 7 PM
Frankenmuth  vs. Almont   - 7 PM
Freeland  vs. Midland Bullock Creek   - 7 PM
Grand Rapids Catholic Central  vs. Belding  - 7 PM
Ithaca  vs. Ravenna   - 7 PM
Laingsburg  vs. Bath   - 7 PM
Madison Heights Lamphere  vs. Sterling Heights Chandler Park - 7 PM
Manistee  vs. Grayling   - 7 PM
Maple City Glen Lake  vs. Boyne City   - 7 PM
Mason  vs. Fowlerville   - 7 PM
Millington  vs. Mt Morris   - 7 PM
Muskegon Mona Shores  vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central   - 7 PM – FOX Sports Prep Zone
New Lothrop  vs. Burton Bendle   - 7 PM
Ortonville Brandon  vs. Goodrich   - 7 PM
Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Detroit Country Day   - 7 PM
Portage Northern  vs. Battle Creek  Lakeview - 7 PM
Redford Union  vs. Livonia Clarenceville   - 7 PM
Riverview Gabriel Richard vs. Jackson Lumen Christi - 7 PM
Rockford  vs. Hudsonville   - 7 PM – FOX Sports Prep Zone
Romulus Summit Academy North  vs. Dearborn Heights Robichaud   - 7 PM
Saline  vs. Ann Arbor  Huron - 7 PM
South Lyon  vs. Walled Lake Western   - 7 PM
St. Joseph  vs. Battle Creek Harper Creek   - 7 PM
Traverse City Central  vs. Swartz Creek   - 7 PM
West Bloomfield  vs. Troy   - 7 PM
White Lake Lakeland  vs. Howell   - 7 PM
Zeeland West  vs. Middleville Thornapple Kellogg   - 7 PM
Rochester Hills Stoney Creek  vs. Clinton Twp.  Chippewa Valley - 7:30 PM – FOX Sports Detroit Game of Week
 
Saturday - Nov. 7
Traverse City St. Francis  vs. Harbor Springs   - 12 PM
Hemlock  vs. Bad Axe   - 1 PM
Kinde North Huron  vs. Peck   - 1 PM
Kingsley  vs. Gladwin   - 1 PM
Midland  vs. Midland Dow   - 1 PM
Pewamo-Westphalia  vs. North Muskegon   - 1 PM
Reed City  vs. Kingsford   - 1 PM
Stevensville Lakeshore  vs. Coldwater   - 1 PM
Mount Pleasant  vs. Marquette  - 2 PM
 
Girls Volleyball District Semifinals and Finals take place Wednesday through Saturday (Nov. 3-7). Separate releases will be issued with detailed Semifinal and Final coverage.
 
This week, more 250 events at all levels in a variety of sports will be available on the NFHS Network/MHSAA.TV. Monthly subscriptions are $10.99. Click for a complete list of upcoming games, and for a complete list of on-demand games
 
Fans also can type their school name into the search field on the MHSAA.tv page to search for events. Varsity games being streamed also have links from the MHSAA Website’s Score Center, and from the schedules on individual school pages. Clicking on the green TV set icon listed next to an event will take you directly to a game. You can also watch on Roku enabled devices.

Now in its 12th 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 the events. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.

NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $10.99 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. A portion of every subscription sold by an SBP 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.