MHSAA TV Serves Up Key TVC Match
October 4, 2017
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
A battle for control of the Tri-Valley Conference Central takes place today (Oct. 4) on MHSAA.tv when Freeland hosts Saginaw Swan Valley in girls volleyball at 7 p.m.
Swan Valley enters this week’s action 31-8-2 and ranked seventh in the latest Class B coaches poll. Freeland, which garnered honorable mention this week in the same poll, is 26-5-2 overall. Both teams are 3-0 in league play.
Freeland is one of more than 60 MHSAA member schools across the state participating in the
School Broadcast Program, and one of nearly a dozen schools to be streaming live video of its home athletic events using the NFHS Network’s Pixellot technology.
Pixellot is a unit equipped with four High Definition cameras which cover the length of the playing surface and then focus in on the ball and player movement to deliver the action. The unit communicates with the scoreboard to insert a time and score graphic on the screen. Ambient audio is picked up by the device, but the play-by-play of an in-person announce team can also be patched in. Freeland is one of several schools in the state using Pixellot in its gymnasium and at its football/multipurpose field.
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 is used by schools wishing to stream games but which lack the ability to staff the events. The SBP 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, October 3
- Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
- Boys Soccer – Lansing Everett at Fowlerville, 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Gwinn at Marquette, 7 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Manistique at Negaunee, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, October 4
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, 5 p.m.
- JV Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Saginaw Swan Valley at Freeland, 7 p.m.
Thursday, October 5
- Freshman Football – Sturgis at Plainwell, 4:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Mio at Rogers City, 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Volleyball – Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Corunna at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- JV Football – Standish-Sterling at Freeland, 6 p.m.
- JV Girls Volleyball – Corunna at Otisville Lakeville, 6 p.m.
- JV Football – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
- JV Football – Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:15 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Corunna at Otisville Lakeville, 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - West Iron County at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Menominee at Marquette, 7 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 6
- Football - Lakeland Union (WI) vs. Marquette @ Superior Dome, 7 p.m.
- Football – Carson City-Crystal at Vestaburg, 7 p.m.
- Football - Sanford Meridian at Clare, 7 p.m.
- Football - Lake Orion at Oxford, 7 p.m.
- Football – Mt. Morris at Montrose, 7 p.m.
- Football – Manistique at Negaunee, 7 p.m.
Monday, October 9
- JV Boys Soccer – Paw Paw at Plainwell, 5 p.m.
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Plainwell Quad, 5 p.m.
- JV Girls Volleyball – Escanaba at Norway, 6 p.m.
- Boys Soccer - Paw Paw at Plainwell, 6:45 p.m. Plainwell 8 in D2, PP 18th D3
- Girls Volleyball - Escanaba at Norway, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 10
- Girls Volleyball - Au Gres-Sims at Rogers City, 6 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Negaunee at Calumet, 6:30 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Grand Rapids Catholic Central at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
- Girls Volleyball - Merrill at Vestaburg, 7 p.m.
NFHS Network subscriptions begin at $9.95 per 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 are in their fifth week. Featured events are in girls volleyball with Clarkston at Lake Orion, football with Lowell at Cedar Springs and football with Lansing Catholic at Fowlerville. Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.
More than 15 football games are featured each week on the State Champs! Sports Network Extra Point – powered by the Michigan High School Athletic Association – Saturday at 10 a.m. on FOX Sports Detroit.
The half-hour program features highlights from more than a dozen games each week, including clips from games produced by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members. The program airs multiple times each weekend on FOX Sports Detroit and on Comcast Channel 900, and will be archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.
Here are some of the games to be featured this week on State Champs! Extra Point:
- Chelsea at Ypsilanti
- Warren Mott at Romeo
- Redford Union at Redford Thurston
- Clarkston Everest at Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes
- Warren Fitzgerald at Madison Heights Madison
- Hudsonville at Caledonia
- PLUS - Additional coverage from Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, Upper Peninsula and School Broadcast Program games.
The MHSAA also has a presence on other State Champs! Network programs throughout each weekend. The MHSAA Minute is a weekly part of the State Champs! High School Sports Show on FOX Sports Detroit at 9 a.m. every Sunday – with multiple replays on FOX Sports Detroit and Comcast Channel 900 throughout the week. That program also is archived on the State Champs YouTube Channel. Consult your local listings for additional playback times.
This week’s MHSAA Minute on State Champs talks about concussion protocols and the Association’s concussion insurance program.
The MHSAA also has content on the State Champs Scoreboard! High School Football Radio Show on Friday nights during the football and basketball seasons, originating on WXYT-FM (97.1) in Detroit and carried on more than 10 radio stations across the state. This Week In High School Sports and Be the Referee are weekly features on the program.
UP Swim/Dive Finals to Stream Live
February 13, 2019
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Six straight weekends of Winter Finals tournament coverage on MHSAA.tv begins this week, with coverage Friday and Saturday (Feb. 15-16) of the Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals at Marquette High School.
Coverage of the Diving Finals takes place Friday, beginning at 2:30 p.m. The Swimming Finals will be contested Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
Over the remainder of the Winter season, MHSAA.tv will have live coverage of the following:
- Team Dual Wrestling Quarterfinals-Semifinals-Finals – Feb. 22-23
- Individual Wrestling Finals – March 1-2
- Girls Competitive Cheer Finals – March 1-2
- Ice Hockey Semifinals & Finals – March 7-8-9
- L.P. Boys Swimming & Diving Finals – March 9
- Boys Basketball Quarterfinals & Semifinals – March 12, 14-15
- Girls Basketball Quarterfinals & Semifinals – March 19, 21-22
Fans can purchase a Month Pass to watch on the NFHS Network for $9.95, which allows three log-ons. Subscribers will have access to all live video and streaming statistics across the country for 30 days. All content becomes available for free, on-demand viewing 72 hours after being shown live.
In addition to this weekend’s swimming action, there will be coverage of Wrestling Regionals and Girls Competitive Cheer Districts produced by School Broadcast Program participants.
The Regional phase of the Team Wrestling Tournament takes place Wednesday (Feb. 13), and the Regional round of the Individual Wrestling Tournament is scheduled for Saturday (Feb. 16). Competitive Cheer Districts are Friday and Saturday.
Here’s the schedule for the Team Wrestling Regional action to be covered:
Division 1
Grandville
5:30 p.m. – Hudsonville v. Grandville; Rockford v. Traverse City West
6:45 p.m. – Final
Division 2
Cedar Springs
5:30 p.m. – Muskegon Reeths-Puffer v. Cedar Springs; Ada Forest Hills Eastern v. Allendale
6:45 p.m. – Final
Here’s the schedule for the Individual Wrestling Regional action to be covered:
Division 1
Saline – 10 a.m.
Division 2
Fremont – 10 a.m.
Here’s the schedule for the Girls Competitive Cheer Districts to be covered:
Division 1
Rockford – Saturday – 10 a.m.
Lake Orion – Saturday – 10 a.m.
Novi – Saturday – 11 a.m.
Division 2
St. Clair Shores Lake Shore – Saturday – 10 a.m.
Linden – Saturday – 10 a.m.
Mt. Pleasant – Saturday – 11 a.m.
Division 3
Comstock Park – Friday – 6 p.m.
Here’s the remainder of week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by SBP members. Check the online schedule throughout the week for late changes.
Tuesday - Feb. 12
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Northville at Howell - 3:50 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 4 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Mt. Morris - 4 PM
- Freshman Girls Basketball - Holland at Grandville - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball – Lakes Valley crossover at White Lake Lakeland - 4 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Plainwell at Kalamazoo Christian - 4:15 PM
- Boys Basketball – Mishawaka Marian IN at Stevensville Lakeshore - 4:15 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - New Baltimore Anchor Bay at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 4:30 PM
- Girls Ice Hockey - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 5 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:20 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Caledonia at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Holland at Grandville - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Flushing at Fenton - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Northville at Howell - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Lakes Valley crossover at White Lake Lakeland - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Ortonville-Brandon at Flint Kearsley - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Brooklyn Columbia Central at Manchester - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Montrose at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Spring Lake at Comstock Park - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Boys Basketball - Monroe at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Mt. Morris - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Sterling Heights Parkway Christian at Southfield Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Plainwell at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Monroe at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball – Beal City at Morley Stanwood – 5:30 PM
- Boys Basketball – Royal Oak Shrine v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood (CHSL Tournament), 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - L'Anse at Calumet - 5:45 PM
- JV Girls Basketball – Gwinn at Negaunee – 5:45 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - New Baltimore Anchor Bay at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Whitehall at Hart - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Corunna at Fowlerville - 6 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Goodrich at Freeland - 6 PM
- Girls Basketball - Allegan at Plainwell - 6 PM
- Boys Basketball - Croswell-Lexington at Bad Axe - 6 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Carrollton at Frankenmuth - 6 PM
- JV Girls Basketball - Midland Bullock Creek at Hemlock - 6 PM
- JV Boys Basketball - Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway - 6:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:50 PM
- Boys Basketball - Northville at Howell - 6:50 PM
- Boys Basketball - Sterling Heights Parkway Christian at Southfield Christian - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Caledonia at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Brooklyn Columbia Central at Manchester - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Monroe at Saline - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball – Lakes Valley crossover at White Lake Lakeland - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Kalamazoo Christian at Plainwell - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball – Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart at Vestaburg - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Spring Lake at Comstock Park - 7 PM
- Boys Ice Hockey - Houghton at Calumet - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Holland at Grandville - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Chesaning at Mt. Morris - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Flushing at Fenton - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Hartland at Novi - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Pontiac Notre Dame Prep at Lake Orion - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Plainwell at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - Ortonville-Brandon at Flint Kearsley - 7 PM
- Girls Basketball - Montrose at Ovid-Elsie - 7 PM
- Boys Basketball – Beal City at Morley Stanwood – 7 PM
- Ice Hockey – Hancock at Marquette – 7 PM
- Boys Basketball - L'Anse at Calumet - 7:15 PM
- Boys Basketball – Orchard Lake St. Mary’s v. Detroit U-D Jesuit (CHSL Tournament), 7:15 PM
- Boys Basketball - New Baltimore Anchor Bay at St. Clair Shores Lake Shore - 7:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Midland Bullock Creek at Hemlock - 7:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Corunna at Fowlerville - 7:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Carrollton at Frankenmuth - 7:30 PM
- Girls Basketball - Goodrich at Freeland - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Whitehall at Hart - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Allegan at Plainwell - 7:30 PM
- Boys Basketball - Crystal Falls Forest Park at Norway - 8 PM
Wednesday - Feb. 13&