MHSAA.TV March Hits Midpoint
February 24, 2014
Nearly 300 hours of live streaming video from MHSAA Championships in Girls Competitive Cheer and Individual Wrestling, plus Student Broadcast Program produced coverage of Girls Basketball Districts and Ice Hockey Regionals, will be available on the MHSAA.TV website as the March of Winter approaches its midway point.
The coverage begins Monday with School Broadcast Programs providing on demand coverage of Girls Basketball Districts and Ice Hockey Regionals, plus the last week of the regular season in Boys Basketball. Check the MHSAA.TV website for daily schedule updates.
Live streaming this week begins at 2 p.m. on Thursday (Feb. 27) from The Palace of Auburn Hills at the Individual Wrestling Finals. A dedicated camera will be on each of 12 mats on the floor, and include full graphics to indicate the participants in each match, plus full in-progress scoring information via Trackwrestling. Girls Competitive Cheer coverage begins Friday from The DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids.
The continued Wrestling and full Cheer 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 three weekends of live winter championship coverage, the following events will be featured:
- · Ice Hockey Semifinals & Finals – March 6-8
- · Girls Gymnastics Finals – March 7-8
- · Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving Finals – March 8
- · Girls Basketball Semifinals – March 13-14
- · Boys Basketball Semifinals – March 20-21
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.
Catch up on some of the final regular-season games for both girls basketball and hockey on MHSAA.TV as those sports move on to postseason competition this week.
Here's a look at all listings from last week, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips.
- East Lansing vs. St. Johns
- Lakeview vs. White Cloud
- AuGres-Sims vs. Posen
- Central Lake vs. Indian River Inland Lakes
- Cedar Springs vs. Greenville
- Davison vs. Flint Hamady
- Comstock Park vs. Grand Rapids Covenant Christian
- Plainwell vs. Coloma
- Central Lake vs. Ellsworth
- Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences
Hockey
- Midland vs. Hemlock/Saginaw Swan Valley
- Detroit Catholic Central vs. Warren DeLaSalle
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Trenton
- Boys Basketball
- East Lansing vs. Grand Ledge
- Cedar Springs vs. Greenville
- Cheboygan vs. Gaylord
- AuGres-Sims vs. Hillman
- Central Lake vs. Ellsworth
- Watervliet vs. Lawrence
- Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences
- Petoskey vs. Alpena
- Escanaba vs. Gladstone
MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson talks about those games that are supposedly decided on their last play - The Last Play
Division 7 Final: Blue Streak
November 29, 2011
DETROIT – Only a few drives into the MHSAA Division 7 Final, Bennett Lewis came to Saginaw Nouvel coach Mike Boyd with a request.
Give me the ball until Pewamo-Westphalia stops me.
Never happened. The senior running back ran for five touchdowns, and his Panthers scored 56 points – both to set or tie MHSAA Finals records.
And both were accomplished over just two quarters as Nouvel cruised to a 56-26 win and its third football championship.
“I can’t say enough how proud I am of my teammates, especially the offensive line. We’ve been playing together a long time and they really executed in the first half,” Lewis said. “Their defense is one of the defenses we can run our offense against really well. We just executed and made big plays. ”
This championship goes with Nouvel’s back-to-back Division 6 titles in 2006 and 2007, and the Panthers finished 13-0 to match their perfect record in 2006. Pewamo-Westphalia made its first appearance in an MHSAA Football Final and finished 13-1.
The Panthers had scored 63 and 62 points, respectively, during the first two rounds of the postseason. And as Boyd said after, he had an offense built for speedy strikes – especially at an inside venue like Ford Field.
Nouvel blew past the previous MHSAA Finals record of 42 points in one half set by both Farmington Hills Harrison in 2000 and Jackson Lumen Christi in 2001.
“Maybe our third drive, Bennett came off the field and came right up to me and said, ‘I want the football. Until they stop me, give me the football,’” Nouvel coach Mike Boyd said. “I said, ‘Absolutely.’
“Great competitors, great leaders. Just a great group.”
Lewis, the Associated Press’ Division 7-8 Player of the Year this fall, ran 15 times for 200 yards – all in the first half – to push his season rushing total to 2,077. The five touchdowns gave him 36 rushing for the fall. Senior quarterback Joseph Buchalski was 7 for 10 passing for 196 yards and three scores. He also ran five times for 50 yards – again, all in the first half.
“That’s the best team I’ve ever played. The fastest. (And) I don’t hesitate to say Bennett Lewis is the best player I’ve ever played,” P-W senior quarterback/cornerback Justin Thelen said. “We fought, and I’m proud of that. But they had us on our heels right away.”
Thelen was 10 for 21 passing for 176 yards and two touchdowns, and senior Alex Thelen ran 16 times for 77 yards and a score. It was a tough end to a courageous run by the Pirates, who suffered through the death of classmate and baseball teammate Brendon Nurenberg in a car crash earlier this month, but battled through with his memory an additional motivator.
“He was just a fun guy. The guys loved being around him. And the guys rallied around that,” P-W coach Brad Weber said. “They did it for Brendon for the most part. They knew he would have fun, so they did too.”