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'Best of' Closes with Big-Time Broadcasts

August 12, 2014

A Football Playoff Semifinal game which went down to the wire highlights the eighth and final week of the "Best Of 2013-14” offerings on the MHSAA.tv Website.

For eight weeks over the summer, MHSAA.tv spotlighted some of the best tournament action from the 2013-14 school year, presenting four games each week.

Each contest is easily identified with a “Best Of 13-14” thumbnail on the home page of the MHSAA.tv Website. Here’s a look at games which will be featured from Aug.11-18:

Ithaca v. Montrose: 2013 Division 6 Football Playoff Semifinal. Ithaca rallied to claim a 21-20 victory, which wasn't secured until Travis Smith intercepted a Montrose pass with a minute to play and then picked up a first down on a quarterback keeper on the subsequent drive.

Gladstone v. Unionville-Sebewaing: 2014 Division 3 Softball Final. Amid chants of “U.P. Power” and “U-S-A,” the Braves made a third-inning run-scoring double by Lexi Hongisto stand up and took the Division 3 championship trophy across the Straits with a 2-1 win over the Patriots.

DeWitt v. Richmond: 2014 Division 2 Baseball Semifinal. Zach Leach pitched a complete-game four-hitter, and Dillon McInerney drove in what proved to be the game-winning run with a sixth-inning double as Richmond advanced to the Final game with a 2-1 win over DeWitt.

Detroit Country Day v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood: 2014 Division 2 Boys Lacrosse Final. Emilio Sosa scored three goals, and four other players had two goals apiece as Country Day cruised to a 12-8 victory over the Cranes.

During the course of the 2013-14 school year, more than 3,000 events were produced on MHSAA.tv by PlayOn! Sports and MHSAA member schools participating in the School Broadcasting Program, covering everything from athletics to announcements to commencements to the performing arts and school board meetings.

DVD’s of the “Best Of 13-14” game videos are available through the MHSAA.tv Website.

      
  


      
  



    

      


  
    
      
      

      

    



  




  

  
    



  


  

          
        


      
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By John Johnson
  MHSAA communications director


The first High Definition video streams by a participating school lead a list of more than 50 sporting events on MHSAA.tv this week being produced by its School Broadcast Program.


Haslett High School streamed live HD video of its boys basketball game with Okemos on Tuesday and will do so for its game against Saginaw Nouvel on Feb. 10, utilizing its new in-school fiber network connections from its gymnasium to its production control room for the first time. Haslett joins a short list of schools in the SBP which run fiber from their event facilities to a control room in another wing of the building where video production classes are taught.


Most schools haul all of their production equipment to the venues for their video broadcasts. Now at Haslett, cameras, audio connections and intercom communications will simply be plugged into network  jacks, replacing long snakes of cable runs around a performance venue. In addition to the fiber connections at the gym and football stadium, the school’s Performing Arts Center also is connected by fiber to the control room.


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.


Here’s the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to cover varsity competition over the next week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv (as of Feb. 2).  The following events will have live streaming video unless otherwise indicated:


Wednesday, February 4
Boys Basketball – Gaylord St. Mary’s at Indian River Inland Lakes, 7 p.m. (VOD)
  Boys Basketball – Alba at Mackinaw City, 7 p.m.


Thursday, February 5
Girls Basketball – Mt. Morris at Montrose, 5:30 p.m.
  Boys Swimming & Diving – Grand Ledge at East Lansing, 6 p.m. (VOD)
  Girls Basketball – Whittemore-Prescott at Hillman, 7 p.m.
  Girls Basketball – Bellaire at Indian River Inland Lakes, 7 p.m. (VOD)
  Girls Basketball – Alanson Littlefield at Mackinaw City, 7 p.m.
  Girls Basketball – Mancelona at Onaway, 7 p.m. (VOD)
  Girls Basketball – Hillman at Posen, 7 p.m.
  Girls Basketball – Oscoda at Rogers City, 7 p.m. (VOD)
  Boys Basketball – Mt. Morris at Montrose, 7 p.m.
  Girls Basketball – Fairview at AuGres-Sims, 7:15 p.m.


Friday, February 6
  Wrestling -  O-K Conference Blue Tournament at Comstock Park, 5 p.m. (Comstock Park, Allendale, Belding, Coopersville, Sparta, Grand Rapids West Catholic)
  Wrestling – Quad at Pinconning, 5:30 p.m. (Pinconning, Standish-Sterling, Bay City John Glenn, Tawas)
  Boys Basketball – Johannesburg-Lewiston at Indian River Inland Lakes, 7 p.m. (VOD)
  Boys Basketball – Boyne Falls at Mackinaw City, 7 p.m.
  Boys Basketball – Bellaire at Mancelona, 7 p.m.           
  Boys Basketball – Paw Paw at Dowagiac, 7 p.m.
  Ice Hockey – Port Huron Northern at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood, 7:15 p.m.


Saturday, February 7
  Girls Competitive Cheer – Montrose Invitational, 8 a.m.
  Ice Hockey – Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook Kingswood at Detroit U-D Jesuit, 5 p.m.


Monday, February 9
  Girls Basketball – Pickford at Newberry, 6 p.m.


Tuesday, February 10
  Boys Basketball – Pickford at Newberry, 6 p.m.
  Boys Basketball – Chassell at Calumet, 7 p.m.
  Boys Basketball – Saginaw Nouvel at Haslett, 7 p.m.
  Boys Basketball – Mio at Hillman, 7 p.m.
  Girls Basketball – Goodrich at Montrose, 7 p.m.
  Girls Basketball – Central Lake at Onaway, 7 p.m. (VOD)
  Boys Basketball – Lincoln Alcona at Rogers City, 7 p.m. (VOD)
  Boys Basketball – Hale at AuGres-Sims, 7:15 p.m.
  Girls Basketball – Hopkins at Plainwell, 7:15 p.m.


Live stats of select basketball games also are available on MHSAA.tv. Check out the MHSAA.tv website on game night to see which schools are streaming live stats, or stop by to view stats following games on an On-Demand basis. A Day Pass to view live stats is $1.95.


All sporting events – live or delayed – are available on MHSAA.tv on a subscription basis for their first 72 hours online. A portion of each subscription is returned to school originating the broadcast. Video subscriptions run $9.95 for a Day Pass and $14.95 for a Month Pass. Some schools also are offering Annual Passes at a discounted rate. All sporting events become available for free On-Demand viewing three days after they have been posted. 


To view all of the recent School Broadcast Program productions, go to MHSAA.tv, click On-Demand on the nav bar of the left side of the page, and on the Filters tab at the top of next page, click on All States and then select Michigan. 


Also available below is an SBP highlights package from the past week, including a 55-50 victory by East Lansing over St. Johns in a boys basketball contest plus a 37-36 overtime win for Fairview at Lincoln Alcona in girls basketball.


Schools interested in becoming a part of the School Broadcast Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.