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Live Finals Play On at MHSAA.TV

March 4, 2014

Another full weekend of live MHSAA Finals video will be available on the MHSAA.TV website this week with coverage of Girls Gymnastics, Ice Hockey and Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Championships.

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 (March 6) with the first of two Division 2 Semifinal games in the Ice Hockey Tournament.  Division 3 and 1 Semifinals follow on Friday (March 7), with the Finals on Saturday (March 8).

Girls Gymnastics coverage begins Friday at 2 p.m. with the Team Finals competition at Plymouth High School and will be followed Saturday with the Individual Finals at noon. Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming and Diving coverage begins at noon Saturday at three locations, with the consolation and championship heat 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. 

Also available on-demand this week on MHSAA.TV are every round from last week's Individual Wrestling Finals plus a host of Girls Basketball District games, Hockey Regional games and boys basketball games from the final week of that regular season.

Here's a look at those listings, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips. 

Girls Basketball
  • Haslett vs. East Lansing
  • Comstock Park vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern
  • Hillman vs. Posen
  • Lowell vs. Greenville
  • Ada Forest Hills Eastern vs. Grand Rapids Wellspring
  • Haslett vs. Okemos
  • Mio vs. Houghton Lake
  • Grand Rapids Northview vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
  • Lansing Waverly vs. DeWitt
  • Grand Rapids West Catholic vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
  • Tawas vs. Lincoln Alcona
  • Grand Rapids Catholic Central vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern
  • DeWitt vs. Haslett
  • Greenville vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
  • Houghton Lake vs. Lincoln Alcona

Hockey

  • Pontiac Notre Dame Prep vs. Auburn Hills Avondale
  • Escanaba vs. Negaunee
  • Calumet vs. Hancock
  • Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Auburn Hills Avondale
  • Painesdale-Jeffers vs. Hancock
  • Marquette vs. Escanaba
  • Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett

Boys Basketball

  • Lakeview vs. Morley-Stanwood
  • Comstock Park vs. Jenison
  • Cedar Springs vs. Sparta
  • Plainwell vs. Parchment
  • Petoskey vs. Boyne City
  • Cheboygan vs. Charlevoix
  • East Lansing vs. Lansing Waverly
  • Watervliet vs. Saugatuck
  • Houghton Lake vs. Harrison
  • Calumet vs. Escanaba
  • Fairview vs. Rogers City

MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson offers some little known facts about the MHSAA Girls and Boys Basketball Tournaments - Did You Know?

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.