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Hoops Score Big on MHSAA.TV

March 11, 2014

The MHSAA Basketball Semifinals and Finals will have broadcast coverage on a variety of cable television, internet and radio platforms over the next two weekends.

The Girls Basketball Finals will take place Thursday through Saturday (March 13-15) at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing. The Boys Finals will take place March 20-22.

The championship games will be televised live by FOX Sports Detroit. The Class D and A title games of the Girls Finals will air on FOX Sports Detroit, and the Class C and B games will be shown on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS. FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS will carry the Finals of the Boys Tournament the following weekend.

Semifinal games will be streamed live on a subscription basis on MHSAA.TV. The Basketball coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.TV, and online viewers can catch both weekends of action for one low cost of $14.95. A Day Pass is available for $9.95. All events will be available for free on-demand viewing by Wednesday the week following their initial live airing. 

A number of events already are available on-demand, including last weekend's Hockey, Gymnastics and Lower Peninsula Swimming and Diving Finals, and a number of Girls Basketball Regional, Boys Basketball District and Hockey Quarterfinal games listed below. The listings are followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips. 

Girls Basketball Regionals

  • Norway vs. L'Anse
  • St. Ignace vs. Ishpeming
  • St. Ignace vs. L'Anse

Hockey Quarterfinals

  • Farmington vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
  • Plymouth vs. Detroit Catholic Central

Boys Basketball Districts

  • Vassar vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy
  • L'Anse vs. Ironwood
  • Onaway vs. Wolverine
  • Ellsworth vs. Alba
  • East Lansing vs. Okemos
  • Haslett vs. DeWitt
  • Watervliet vs. Bridgman
  • Cedar Springs vs. Rockford
  • Montrose vs. Reese
  • Calumet vs. Hancock
  • Central Lake vs. Boyne Falls
  • Lansing Eastern vs. Lansing Everett
  • Grand Rapids Northview vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
  • Vassar vs. New Lothrop
  • Hale vs. AuGres-Sims
  • Richland Gull Lake vs. Holt
  • Bellaire vs. Ellsworth
  • Calumet vs. Ironwood
  • Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy
  • Rockford vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
  • Gladstone vs. Escanaba
  • Atlanta vs. Fairview
  • Haslett vs. Okemos
  • Grand Ledge vs. Mason
  • Holt vs. Mason
  • Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Grand Rapids Northview
  • Saginaw Nouvel vs. Hemlock
  • New Lothrop vs. Montrose

MHSAA Perspective: This week, John Johnson talks about the value of school sports and how the values they teach surpass anything that happens in other youth sports by other sponsors - Nothing Like It

Wounded Warrior Project: DeWitt vs Portland

December 16, 2011

DEWITT -- The meeting of two state-ranked teams always will ratchet up a typical football night. Both communities, naturally, want to see which is better on the field.

But during the hour before the opening kickoff Oct. 14 of DeWitt’s game against Portland, those teams and their supporters together recognized a grander cause. The night was dedicated to the Wounded Warrior Project, which aids U.S. soldiers (and their families) who have suffered service-related injuries and illnesses.

Rain washed out some planned attractions, but the evening certainly was memorable. Both teams wore camouflage jerseys and each sent its captains to the pre-game coin toss with an honorary captain representing the military. A number of other service personnel were involved – including a local color guard that presented a 30-foot flag for the national anthem.

It’s understandable if people’s visions of wars and our military are focused an ocean away. But connections hit close to home. DeWitt’s honorary captain, Lansing’s U.S. Army Spc. Jacob Shumway, recently returned from a deployment and has been in the service for two and a half years. He’s a 2003 Lansing Everett graduate, and his mother Susan Land is the principal at Lansing Eastern. His cousins Ethan and Collin Rennaker start for DeWitt, and he walked alongside them for the pregame flip. Shumway plans to attend Lansing Community College and study digital graphic design.

Both teams are considered contenders for their respective state titles next month; DeWitt is ranked No. 7 in Division 3, while Portland is No. 4 in Division 5. And they played like it – Portland prevailed 22-20 in overtime.

A great game, no question. But similarly significant was a preliminary figure of more than $11,000 raised for the WWP.

For more about the Wounded Warrior Project visit http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org.