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

'Best of 13-14' continues on MHSAA.tv

July 21, 2014

The fifth week of  "Best Of 2013-14” offerings will be featured on the MHSAA.tv Website this week.

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

Each contest will be easily identified with a “Best Of 13-14” thumbnail on the home page of the MHSAA.tv Website. Here’s a look at the games which will be featured from July 21-28:

  • Grand Rapids South Christian v. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep: 2013 Class B Girls Volleyball Final. Katherine Carlson delivers 25 kills for Notre Dame Prep in a 3-1 decision over South Christian.

  • Muskegon v. Birmingham Brother Rice: 2013 Division 2 Football Final. In the final game of Al Fracassa’s coaching career, the Warriors bust the game open in the fourth quarter to top the Big Rads, 38-21.

  • Farmington Hills Mercy v. Bloomfield Hills Marian: 2014 Class A Girls Basketball  Semifinal. This was the fourth meeting of the two schools, which split their-regular season games, and then Mercy won the Catholic League championship game. Marian, however, was not to be denied, finishing the game with a 17-7 run and winning 67-55.

  • Kalamazoo Christian v. Rogers City: 2014 Division 4 Softball Final. Morgan Hall stroked a double in the top of the seventh inning to drive in Sarah Meredith with what proved to be the winning run for the Hurons in their 3-2 decision over K-Christian.

Technical difficulties prevented this year’s MHSAA Girls Lacrosse Finals from being streamed live on MHSAA.tv in June, but both championships games are now available. In the Division 1 finale, Rockford defeated Ann Arbor Pioneer, 16-7, while in the Division 2 championship, East Grand Rapids was an 11-7 winner over Okemos.

During the course of the 2013-14 school year, over 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, and the Girls Lacrosse Finals  are available through the MHSAA.tv website.