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Playoffs Ramp Up on MHSAA TV, FSD
October 23, 2018
By John Johnson
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
Highlighted by more than a dozen Football Playoff games, this week’s MHSAA broadcast schedule is loaded with tournament action in three sports.
The slate is highlighted by the first Pre-District Football Playoff game to be shown on cable television statewide, as FOX Sports Detroit launches its Football Week In Michigan activities for 2018 by traveling to Kent City for a Division 7 first-round showdown between the 8-1 Falcons and last year’s Division 8 runner-up, Saugatuck (8-1).
Matt Shepard and Rob Rubick have the call of the game Friday (Oct. 26) at 7 p.m., which also can be seen free on the FoxSportsDetroit.com website and on the FOX Sports app. Authentication may be required to view on the FOX Sports app.
The highly popular Prep Zone series returns for its eighth season as well Friday, with Davison (7-2) at Oxford in a Division 1 Pre-District game and Haslett (8-1) at East Lansing (8-1) in a Division 3 contest. Both games begin at 7 p.m. on the FoxSportsDetroit.com website and on the FOX Sports app.
All games produced on FOX Sports Detroit will be available for on-demand viewing on the MHSAA.tv website.
Another 10 football games Friday evening and another four on Saturday are being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network.
School Broadcast Program members also will be covering a Boys Soccer Regional this week at Cedar Springs and Girls Volleyball Districts beginning Monday (Oct. 29) at four locations.
Here’s this week’s MHSAA.tv schedule of video streams being produced by School Broadcast Program members and the NFHS Network: (Check this list online at MHSAA.com for updates throughout the week as SBP members schedule additional games.)
Tuesday - Oct. 23
- Freshman Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 4:15 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 4:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Three Rivers at Plainwell - 4:45 PM
- Boys Soccer Div. 2 Regional Semifinal – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern v. Petoskey @ Cedar Springs - 5 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Adrian at Saline - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Grand Blanc - 5:30 PM
- Field Hockey – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central at Saline - 6 PM
- Boys Soccer Div. 2 Regional Semifinal - Haslett v. Spring Lake @ Cedar Springs - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Adrian at Saline - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Delton Kellogg at Kalamazoo Christian - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Escanaba at Marquette - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Flint Carman-Ainsworth at Grand Blanc - 7 PM
Wednesday - Oct. 24
- Middle School Football – Auburn Hills Avondale at Novi - 4:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball – TBA at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 5 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball – Canton Prep at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 5:30 PM
- JV/Girls Volleyball - Cheboygan at Pellston - 5:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball – St. Johns at Fowlerville - 6:15 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Canton Prep at Ann Arbor Greenhills - 6:30 PM
Thursday - Oct. 25
- JV Girls Volleyball – Ewen-Trout Creek at Dollar Bay - 4:25 PM
- Girls Volleyball – Bloomfield Hills Academy of the Sacred Heart at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood - 4:30 PM
- Freshman Girls Volleyball – Pewamo-Westphalia at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - Ashley at Ovid-Elsie - 5:30 PM
- Boys Soccer Div. 2 Regional Final @ Cedar Springs - 6 PM
- JV Girls Volleyball - North Dickinson at Norway - 6 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Ashley at Ovid-Elsie - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - North Dickinson at Norway - 7:15 PM
Friday - Oct. 26
- Football Div. 8 Pre-District - Pittsford at Reading - 6:45 PM
- Football Div. 1 Pre-District - Monroe at Brownstown Woodhaven - 7 PM
- Football Div. 5 Pre-District – Remus Chippewa Hills at Freeland - 7 PM
- Football Div. 5 Pre-District - Richmond at Frankenmuth - 7 PM
- Football Div. 3 Pre-District - Gaylord at Cedar Springs - 7 PM
- Football Div. 6 Pre-District – Ishpeming Westwood at Calumet - 7 PM
- Football Div. 1 Pre-District – Rockford at Traverse City West – 7 PM
- Football Div. 3 Pre-District – Petoskey at Mt. Pleasant – 7 PM
- Football Div. 6 Pre-District – Hemlock at Montrose – 7 PM
- Football Div. 2 Pre-District – Warren DeLaSalle at Warren Mott – 7 PM
Saturday - Oct. 27
- Football Div. 1 Pre-District - Kalamazoo Central at Saline - 1 PM
- Football Div. 6 Pre-District - Blissfield at Hillsdale - 1 PM
- Football Div. 2 Pre-District – Jenison at Traverse City Central – 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball - Williamston at Fowlerville - 8:30 AM
Monday - Oct. 29
- Girls Volleyball Div. 1 District – Ann Arbor Skyline at Saline - 5 PM
- Girls Volleyball Div. 3 District - Kent City at Grand Rapids Covenant Christian - 5:30 PM
- Girls Volleyball Div. 3 District – Millington v. Otisville-Lakeville @ Montrose – 6 PM
- Girls Volleyball Div. 3 District – Grandville Calvin Christian at Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian - 7 PM
- Girls Volleyball Div. 1 District – Ann Arbor Huron v. Jackson @ Saline – 7 PM
Tuesday - Oct. 30
- Girls Volleyball Div. 1 District – Saginaw Arthur Hill v. Swartz Creek @ Saginaw Heritage – 5 PM
- Girls Volleyball Div. 1 District – Flushing @ Saginaw Heritage - 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.
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.