MHSAA TV Serves Up Key TVC Match

Highlights

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 18^th 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.

Highlights

Montrose Wins Top SBP Award Again

April 18, 2017

By John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director

Montrose High School maintained its spot as the “Program of the Year” in the MHSAA’s School Broadcast Program Excellence Awards in 2016-17, claiming the top honor for the fourth straight year.

The SBP Excellence Awards will award certificates and plaques to the schools which took individual honors, with the presentation dates and times to be announced.

Montrose took first place in Best Multicamera Production, Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Sports Graphics, Best Use of PlayOn! Sports Graphics and swept the top three spots in the Best Produced Commercial/Feature category.

Montrose became the first SBP school to produce live coverage of its entire regular-season football schedule during the 2016 season, continued to demonstrate good blend of productions in a variety of sports covered and an overall command of the PlayOn! Sports software used for graphics and inserting commercials/features during the course of productions.

Other category winners were Negaunee High School for Best Highlight and Lake Orion High School for Best Play-by-Play.

Other criteria used in selecting the top program awards were sporting events produced, where East Lansing High School headed the list followed by Comstock Park High School and Montrose, and subscriptions sold, which was led by Calumet High School followed by Negaunee, Lake Orion and Marquette High School.

Here is the complete list by categories of the schools and students being honored in this year’s SBP Excellence Awards:

Best Highlight

First Place – Negaunee – Evan Hassell, Keegan McGonigle, Hannah Skewis – Football game vs. Charlevoix.

Best Multicamera Production

First Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer, David Sackrider, Elyssa Climie, Ben Dennings, Sam Wade, Jared Adams, Noah Rowe – Football game vs. Birch Run.

Second Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer, David Sackrider, Peyton Hobson, Noah Rowe, Cameron Tupper, Sam Wade, Randal Smith, Amanda Conrad – Football game vs. Corunna.

Third Place – Lake Orion – Micah Williams, Ben Wellman, Brad Daenzer, Brandon Morrow, Gracen Zotter, Jack LaBounty, Rachele Pozzo – Boys Basketball game vs. Birmingham Seaholm.

Best Play-By-Play

First Place – Lake Orion – Brad Daenzer and Ben Wellman – Boys Basketball game vs. Oxford.

Second Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer and David Sackrider – Football game vs. Birch Run.

Third Place – Lake Orion – Brad Daenzer and Ben Wellman – Boys Basketball game vs. Birmingham Seaholm.

Best Produced Commercial/Feature

First Place – Montrose – Jared Adams, Elyssa Climie, Eric Vandefifer – Mike Young Buick/GMC Commercial.

Second Place – Montrose – Elyssa Climie, Jared Adams, Camryn Blair, Molly Dunton, Sarah Jones – Ford Field Trip Feature.

Third Place – Montrose - Eric Vandefifer, David Sackrider, Jared Adams – Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association MSU-U of M Tailgate Luncheon Feature.

Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Graphics

First Place – Montrose – David Sackrider, Elyssa Climie, Sarah Jones – Boys Basketball game vs. Flint Kearsley.

Second Place – Cedar Springs – Noah VanKampen – Boys Soccer game vs. Greenville.

Third Place – Negaunee - Evan Hassell, Hannah Skewis – Football game vs. Calumet.

Best Use of PlayOn! Graphics/Software

First Place – Montrose – David Sackrider, Elyssa Climie, Sarah Jones – Boys Basketball game vs. Flint Kearsley.

Second Place – Negaunee – Robby Williams, Travis Nelson – Girls Basketball game vs. Iron Mountain.

Third Place – Montrose - Carter Inman, Reco Delacruz, Camryn Blair, Jared Adams, John Blackford – Boys Basketball game vs. Burton Bendle.

Spring sporting events are beginning to populate the MHSAA.tv website, with this week’s schedule featuring action on the track and the baseball, lacrosse and soccer fields.

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.

All sporting events – live or delayed – are available on a subscription basis only for their first 72 hours online. They become available for free, on-demand viewing approximately 72 hours following their completion.

Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of live video streams being produced by SBP members (All times Eastern):

Tuesday, April 18

Track & Field – Marquette Invitational at Superior Dome, 2:30 p.m.
Boys Lacrosse – Detroit U-D Jesuit at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, 6:15 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19

Softball – Indian River Inland Lakes at Rogers City, 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 20

Baseball – Oscoda at Rogers City, 4 p.m.
Girls Soccer – Durand at Montrose, 4:30 p.m.
Baseball – Oscoda at Rogers City, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 22

Baseball – Ubly at Montrose, noon
Boys Lacrosse – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 25

Basketball – Millington at Montrose, 4 p.m.
Boys Lacrosse – Orchard Lake St. Mary’s at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, 6:30 p.m.
Boys Lacrosse – Clarkston at Lake Orion, 7 p.m.

Be sure to check the Upcoming Events page at MHSAA.tv for schedule additions every day.

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. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.