OAA, TVC Showdowns to Stream Live
October 2, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
The top spots in divisions in two leagues are up for grabs this week on MHSAA.tv, part of a live video streaming buffet of over 75 events being produced by participants of the School Broadcast Program.
On Tuesday (Oct. 2), the top spot in the Oakland Activities Association Red in volleyball is on the line when No. 9 (Division 1 coaches poll) Rochester Hills Stoney Creek and No. 3 Lake Orion square off at Lake Orion at 7 p.m. Both are 4-0 in OAA play.
Then on Friday (Oct. 5), the Tri-Valley Conference East football title will be settled when Millington travels to Frankenmuth for a 7 p.m. clash. Both teams are 5-1 overall, 4-0 in league play, and ranked in the top 10 in different divisions in media polls this week.
The TVC also has another football match-up of top-ranked teams on MHSAA.tv this week. On Friday, Alma is at Freeland at 7 p.m. While both teams are tied for second behind No. 2-ranked (Division 5) Saginaw Swan Valley in the TVC Central, they are both in the top 10 in Division 4.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network:
Tuesday - Oct. 2
- JV Girls Volleyball - Hartland at Howell - 4:55 PM
- Girls Volleyball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:25 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Lapeer at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Chesaning at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Chesaning at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Arthur Hill at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Lapeer at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Boys Soccer - Allendale at Comstock Park - 6 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Hartland at Howell - 6:25 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Chesaning at Ovid-Elsie - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - New Lothrop at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:55 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - East Jackson at Manchester - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Lapeer at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - East Jackson at Manchester - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Lake Orion - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Arthur Hill at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
Wednesday - Oct. 3
- Freshman Boys Soccer – Canton at Saline – 4 PM
- Middle School Girls Volleyball – Wyoming Kelloggsville at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian – 4:15 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Millington at Frankenmuth - 5:30 PM
- JV Field Hockey - Dexter at Saline - 5:30 PM
- Middle School Girls Volleyball – Wyoming Kelloggsville at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Millington at Frankenmuth - 5:30 PM
- Field Hockey - Dexter at Saline - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Millington at Frankenmuth - 7 PM
Thursday - Oct. 4
- Freshman Football – Canton at Howell – 3:55 PM
- JV Football – Riverview Gabriel Richard at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood – 4 PM
- Field Hockey – Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart at Novi - 4:15 PM
- Freshman Football - Coopersville at Comstock Park - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Football - Bay City John Glenn at Saginaw Heritage - 4:30 PM
- Middle School Girls Basketball - Ontonagon at Dollar Bay - 4:30 PM
- JV Boys Soccer - Sturgis at Plainwell - 4:45 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Sturgis at Plainwell - 4:45 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Burton Atherton at Otisville-Lakeville - 5:25 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Midland Dow at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Boys Soccer – Ann Arbor Pioneer at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Gwinn at Calumet - 5:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Midland Dow at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Football - Bay City John Glenn at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
- JV Football - Byron at Ovid-Elsie - 6 PM
- JV Football - Bay City at Saginaw Heritage - 6 PM
- Boys Soccer - Sturgis at Plainwell - 6:15 PM
- JV Football - Bessemer at Negaunee - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Gwinn at Calumet - 6:30 PM
- JV Football - Ann Arbor Huron at Saline - 6:30 PM
- JV Football - Addison at Manchester - 6:30 PM
- JV Football – Canton at Howell – 6:45 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Burton Atherton at Otisville-Lakeville - 6:55 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Midland Dow at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Boys Soccer – Ann Arbor Pioneer at Saline - 7 PM
Friday - Oct. 5
- Football - Bloomfield Hills at Lake Orion - 7 PM
- Football – Fowlerville at St. Johns – 7 PM
- Football - Houghton at Calumet - 7 PM
- Football - Millington at Frankenmuth - 7 PM
- Football - Alma at Freeland - 7 PM
- Football – Saginaw Arthur Hill at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
- Football - Hartland at Novi - 7 PM
- Football - Salem at Brighton - 7 PM
Saturday - Oct. 6
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Saginaw Heritage Invitational – 8:30 AM
- Girls Volleyball – Ovid-Elsie Invitational – 8:30 AM
- Field Hockey – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Saline - 10 AM
- JV Field Hockey – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Saline - 11:30 AM
- JV Boys Soccer - Rochester Adams at Saline - 12 PM
- Boys Soccer - Rochester Adams at Saline - 1 PM
Monday - Oct. 8
- Boys Soccer - Clinton at Manchester - 5 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Plainwell Quad - 5 PM
- Middle School Girls Volleyball - Hopkins at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Houghton at Calumet - 5:30 PM
Tuesday - Oct. 9
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Calumet at Negaunee – 4:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Northville at Novi - 5 PM
- Field Hockey - East Grand Rapids at Novi - 5 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Michigan Center at Manchester - 5 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 5:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Niles Brandywine at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Field Hockey - East Grand Rapids at Novi - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Northville at Novi - 6:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Calumet at Negaunee - 6:45 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Bay City Western at Saginaw Heritage - 7 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Michigan Center at Manchester - 7 PM
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.
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 will be selling Season and Annual Passes at a discounted rate. A portion of every subscription sold by a school goes to benefit its program.
Highlights of games broadcast during the past week by MHSAA School Broadcast Program members include clips from the Saginaw Heritage/Bay City Central and Stevensville Lakeshore/Battle Creek Lakeview football games and Freeland/Saginaw Swan Valley volleyball match.
Highlights can be found each week on the MHSAA.tv website, the home page of the MHSAA Website, and the MHSAASports Channel on YouTube.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
Montrose Earns SBP Awards 5-Peat
By
John Johnson
MHSAA Communications Director emeritus
May 11, 2018
Make it five in row for Montrose High School, which again claimed the top spot as the “Program of the Year” in the MHSAA’s School Broadcast Program Excellence Awards for 2017-18.
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 every category: Best Highlight, Best Multicamera Production, Best Student Play-by-Play, Best Produced Commercial/Feature, Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Sports Graphics and Best Use of PlayOn! Sports Graphics. It also placed a second entry in five of the six categories.
Montrose 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 criteria used in selecting the top program awards were sporting events produced and live page views for those events. The events category was dominated by schools using Pixellot, the NFHS Network’s automated coverage solution, but still topped by a traditional SBP member. Comstock Park has produced 89 events to date this year, followed by three Pixellot schools – Freeland (76), Plainwell (76) and Macomb Lutheran North (71).
For live page views, the top four schools were Dollar Bay, Lake Orion, Norway and Calumet. Dollar Bay and Norway are dedicated Pixellot schools, while Calumet produces games with traditional crews and Pixellot.
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 – Montrose - Eric Vandefifer, David Sackrider, Peyton Hobson, Tanner Sims – Football game v. Birch Run.
Second Place – Negaunee - Thomas Bagley, Chaz Bluse, Alec Johnson – Gymnastics meet v. Super Seven co-op.
Third Place – Montrose - Danny Sackrider, Steven Folsom, Taylor Burke Pennington, Randall Smith – Boys Basketball game v. Genesee Christian.
Best Multicamera Production
First Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer, John Blackford, Kenzie Bishop – MHSAA District Wrestling Finals.
Second Place – Lake Orion – WDBC Staff – Boys Basketball game v. Oxford.
Third Place – Lake Orion – WDBC Staff – Boys Basketball game v. Rochester.
Best Student Play-By-Play
First Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer and David Sackrider – Football game v. Birch Run.
Second Place – Montrose – Eric Vandefifer and David Sackrider – JV Boys Basketball game v. Genesee Christian.
Third Place – Lake Orion – Ben Wellman and Ted Hirschfield – Boys Basketball game v. Rochester.
Best Produced Commercial/Feature
First Place – Montrose – Jared Adams, Maddie Pyrc, John Blackford – Conlee Oil Company Commercial.
Second Place – Montrose – Jared Adams, Molly Dunton, David Sackrider – Hamilton’s RV Commercial.
Best Single Camera Production with PlayOn! Graphics
First Place - Montrose – David Sackrider, Eric Vandefifer, Tanner Sims, Peyton Hobson, Taylor Burke-Pennington – Football game v. Birch Run.
Second Place – Negaunee – Colton Yesney, Carter Richardson, Robby Williams, Peyton Anderson – Girls Volleyball match v. Gwinn.
Third Place – Montrose - David Sackrider, Eric Vandefifer, Tanner Sims, Peyton Hobson, Taylor Burke-Pennington - JV Boys Basketball game v. Genesee Christian.
Best Use of PlayOn! Graphics/Software
First Place - Montrose – David Sackrider, Eric Vandefifer, Tanner Sims, Peyton Hobson, Taylor Burke-Pennington – Football Game v. Birch Run.
Second Place – Lake Orion - Ben Wellman, Isabella Larsen, Micah Williams, Samuel Jenkins – Boys Basketball game v. Clarkston.
Third Place – Montrose - David Sackrider, Eric Vandefifer, Tanner Sims, Peyton Hobson,Taylor Burke-Pennington - JV Boys Basketball game v. Genesee Christian.
Montrose also was honored this spring by the NFHS Network with the Best Live Sports Broadcast of the 2017-18 school year. Its production of a regular-season football game with Birch Run, won by Montrose in overtime, took top honors.
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.
The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
A complete list of participating schools can be found on the School Broadcast Program page of the MHSAA website.
PHOTOS: (Top) Montrose’s Eric Vandefifer interviews three of his school’s wrestlers who qualified for the MHSAA Individual Finals, during a basketball telecast in March. (Middle) Montrose SBP students take in Tigers Student Media Day this spring.