Today in the MHSAA: 10/9/24

By Geoff Kimmerly
MHSAA.com senior editor

October 9, 2024

1. GIRLS GOLF No. 3 Ann Arbor Greenhills won its fourth-straight Regional team title, and Mia Melendez won her fourth individual championship while carding a 64 in Lower Peninsula Division 4 – Ann Arbor News

2. GIRLS GOLF No. 7 Grand Blanc carded a 329, and Okemos’ Alena Li also scored a 64 at their LPD2 Regional – Lansing State Journal

3. CROSS COUNTRY Benzie Central’s girls and boys teams finished a Northwest Conference sweep; Benzie’s girls are ranked No. 4 in LPD3, and the boys are No. 15 – Traverse City Record-Eagle

4. GIRLS GOLF No. 4 Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian and Ava McConnon swept LPD4 Regional titles – Local Sports Journal

5. VOLLEYBALL Onaway moved into first alone in the Ski Valley Conference with a four-set win over Indian River Inland Lakes – Cheboygan Daily Tribune

6. GIRLS GOLF Sandusky won its LPD4 Regional team title by 21 strokes – Mount Pleasant Morning News

7. CROSS COUNTRY Battle Creek Lakeview’s girls and boys swept All-City titles – Battle Creek Enquirer

8. VOLLEYBALL Division 1 No. 8 Clarkston lost the first set but won the next three against honorable mention Lake Orion – Oakland Press

9. VOLLEYBALL St. Ignace also lost its first set with Brimley before winning in four – MI Sports Now

10. VOLLEYBALL Escanaba swept Bark River-Harris – Upper Michigan Source

MHSAA.tv on NFHS Network Surpasses Decade of Providing Fans Another Way to Watch

By Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties

August 30, 2024

The way high school sports fans in Michigan follow their favorite teams changed forever 11 years ago.

MHSAA Championships began airing on the NFHS Network in 2013, and one of the oldest games archived was the season-opening varsity football game between Adrian and Carleton Airport on Aug. 30, 2013. Adrian would go on to win that game 26-7. John Koehn of WLEN in Adrian provided the play-by-play. (Watch the entire game here.)

The second, third, and fourth oldest archived streams were also Adrian football games. The first MHSAA basketball game to air was Cheboygan vs. Newberry on Dec. 10, 2013.

Since that start, more than 172,000 events in Michigan have been broadcast on the NFHS Network. Last school year alone, more than 50,000 events aired. This includes games from all levels – freshman, JV, and varsity. It includes regular-season matchups, all the way through MHSAA Finals. Most games are produced with automated cameras installed in gyms and stadiums. Schools also use student crews to produce broadcasts – providing hands-on learning opportunities for future broadcasters.

More than 600 of the MHSAA’s 752 member schools are partners of the NFHS Network. A monthly subscription to watch is $11.99 – and a portion of that goes back to schools in Michigan. To date, the NFHS Network has shared nearly $1.5 million with partner schools.

If you can’t attend a game in person, watching on the NFHS Network is a great way to support your favorite school.