Live Finals Continue on MHSAA.tv

March 10, 2015

By John Johnson
MHSAA communications director

It’s another big weekend of live MHSAA Finals video on the MHSAA.tv website with coverage of Girls Gymnastics, Ice Hockey and Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Finals beginning Thursday.

The championship coverage will be complimented by Student Broadcast Program on-demand productions of Boys Basketball Districts and Girls Basketball Regionals. Check the MHSAA.tv website for daily schedule updates.

Live streaming this week begins at 5 p.m. Thursday with the first of two Division 2 Semifinal games in the Ice Hockey Tournament. Division 3 and 1 Semifinals follow on Friday with all Finals on Saturday.

Here’s the complete Ice Hockey coverage schedule:

Thursday – Division 2 Semifinals
Escanaba/Traverse City Central Quarterfinal winner v. Livonia Stevenson/Novi winner – 5 p.m.
Romeo/Grosse Pointe South Quarterfinal winner v. Hartland/Birmingham Brother Rice winner – 7:30 p.m.

Friday – Division 3 Semifinals
Wyandotte Roosevelt/Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood Quarterfinal winner v. Riverview/Okemos winner – 11 a.m.
Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central/Flint Powers Catholic Quarterfinal winner v. Houghton/Sault Ste. Marie winner – 1:30 p.m.

Friday – Division 1 Semifinals
Salem/Detroit U-D Jesuit Quarterfinal winner v. Troy/Detroit Catholic Central winner – 5 p.m.
Jackson/Bay City Central Quarterfinal winner v. Traverse City West/Grandville winner – 7:30 p.m.

Saturday – Finals
10 a.m. – Division 2
2 p.m. – Division 3
6 p.m. – Division 1

Girls Gymnastics coverage begins at 2 p.m. Friday with Team Finals competition at Rockford High School and will be followed Saturday with the Individual Finals beginning at noon.  There will be a dedicated camera on each apparatus (Bars, Balance Beam, Floor Exercise, Vault), with an announcer providing information on each channel regarding who is competing in each event at a given time.

Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming and Diving coverage begins at noon Saturday at three locations, with the consolation and championship heats in each swimming event, plus the final round of the diving. 

The continued Gymnastics, Hockey and Swimming coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.tv, and online viewers can catch every weekend of action for one low cost of $14.95. 

A Month Pass on MHSAA.tv for $14.95 will give a viewer access to events over a 30-day period from the time it is purchased. Over the next two weekends of live winter championship coverage, the following events will be featured: 

  • Girls Basketball Semifinals – March 19-20
  • Boys Basketball Semifinals – March 26-27 

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. 

The MHSAA Championship Radio Network begins three straight weekends of winter tournament coverage this weekend at the Ice Hockey Semifinals and Finals. The audio stream is available at MHSAANetwork.com. Over the following two weekends, the MHSAA Championship Radio Network also will carry the Semifinals and Finals of the Girls and Boys Basketball Tournaments for distribution on an over-the-air network of radio stations and on the Internet.

Here’s the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to cover games in the coming week, which will be available at MHSAA.tv shortly after each game’s conclusion (All games are Video on Demand – Check daily for updates): 

Monday, March 9
Boys Basketball District Quarterfinal – Lansing Sexton at Haslett, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Quarterfinal – Midland Bullock Creek vs. Gladwin at Pinconning, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Quarterfinal – Wyoming Lee at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Quarterfinal – Lowell at Cedar Springs, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Quarterfinal – Fowlerville vs. Lansing Catholic at Haslett, 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Quarterfinal – Standish-Sterling vs. Essexville Garber at Pinconning, 7:45 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11
Boys Basketball District Semifinal – Grand Rapids Catholic Central vs. Grand Rapids West Catholic at Comstock Park, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Semifinal – Midland Bullock Creek/Gladwin winner vs. Bay City John Glenn at Pinconning, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Semifinal – Lansing Catholic/Fowlerville winner vs. Williamston at  Haslett, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Semifinal – Haslett/Lansing Sexton winner vs. Perry at Haslett, 7:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Semifinal – Standish-Sterling/Essexville Garber winner at Pinconning, 7:45 p.m.
Boys Basketball District Semifinal – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern vs. Wyoming Lee/Comstock Park winner at Comstock Park, 8 p.m.

Friday, March 13
Boys Basketball District Final at Comstock Park, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball District final at Pinconning, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball District final at Haslett, 7 p.m.

Finals Playbacks Viewable on Comcast

July 10, 2013

More playbacks have been added for spring MHSAA Championships in baseball, lacrosse, girls soccer and softball to be shown on Comcast Channel 900 over the next few weeks, and highlights packages of all games are now available to Comcast subscribers on Xfinity On Demand. 

Here is the updated schedule of playbacks for each game: 

Baseball– Available on Xfinity VOD through August 20

Division 1 – Bay City Western vs. Birmingham Brother Rice -- July 13, 9:30 p.m.; August 1, 9:30 p.m.

Division 2 – Grand Rapids Christian vs. Richmond – July 10, 8 a.m.; July 14, 9 a.m.; August 3, 8 a.m.

Division 3 –  Madison Heights Bishop Foley vs. Grandville Calvin Christian - July 17, 10:30 a.m.; July 21, Noon; August 3, 9:30 p.m.

Division 4 –  Beal City vs. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett - July 17, 8 a.m.; June 20, 6 p.m.; July 31, 8 a.m.

Softball – Available on Xfinity VOD through August 23

Division 1 – Bay City Western vs. Mattawan - July 14, Noon; August 1, 7 p.m.

Division 2 –  Saginaw Swan Valley vs. Linden – July 1, 9:30 p.m.;  July 14, 6 p.m.; August 2, Noon

Division 3 – Unionville-Sebewaing vs. Dundee - July 16, 7 p.m.; July 24, 10:30 a.m.; August 3, 7 p.m.

Division 4 – Kalamazoo Christian vs. Ubly - July 16, 9:30 p.m.; July 21, 9 a.m.

Girls Soccer – Available on Xfinity VOD through August 23

Division 1 – Grandville vs. Troy - July 18, 7 p.m.; July 25, 9:30 p.m.

Division 2 – Richland Gull Lake vs. Bloomfield Hills Marian - July 18, 9:30 p.m.; July 23, 7 p.m.; July 27, 7 p.m.

Division 3 – Grand Rapids South Christian vs. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep - July 18, 9:30 p.m.; July 26, Noon; July 28, 6 p.m.

Division 4 – Grandville Calvin Christian vs. Clarkston Everest Collegiate/Waterford Our Lady - July 20, 8 a.m.; July 25, 7 p.m.; July 28, 9 a.m.

Boys Lacrosse – Available on Xfinity VOD through August 13

Division 1 – Birmingham Brother Rice vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern/Northern - July 10, 10;30 a.m.; July 20, 9:30 p.m.; July 27, 8 a.m.; July 30, 7 p.m.

Division 2 – Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood - July 12, Noon; July 20, 7 p.m.; July 27, 9:30 p.m.

Girls Lacrosse at Rockford – Available on Xfinity VOD through August 30

Division 1 – Rockford vs. Bloomfield United - July 13, 8 a.m.; July 30, 9:30 p.m.

Division 2 – East Grand Rapids vs. Livonia Ladywood - July 13, 7 p.m. ; July 31, 10:30 a.m.

DVDs of the finals in each running event from the 2013 MHSAA Track & Field Finals are now available for ordering through the PrepFilms.com Website. There is a separate DVD for each gender of each division in both peninsulas, and they are priced at $20 each.