Postseason Comes to MHSAA.TV
February 11, 2014
Team and Individual Wrestling Districts and a pair of competitive cheer league meets were among events broadcast last week and uploaded to MHSAA.TV by our partners in the School Broadcast Program.
A total of four hockey, 17 girls and 14 boys basketball broadcasts also are among recent additions. Here's a look at all listings from last week, followed by this week's MHSAA Perspective and MHSAA.TV highlight clips.
Competitive Cheer
- Great Northern Conference at Escanaba
- O-K Blue at Comstock Park
Wrestling
- Team District: Marquette vs. Escanaba
- Team District: Mio vs. Whittemore-Prescott
- Individual District at Remus Chippewa Hills
Hockey
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Detroit Catholic Central
- Rockford vs. Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Upper Canada College (ON)
- Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood vs. Brighton
Girls Basketball
- Calumet vs. Lake Linden-Hubbell
- Hemlock vs. Shepherd
- East Lansing vs. Lansing Eastern
- AuGres-Sims vs. Rogers City
- Plainwell vs. Berrien Springs
- Davison vs. Flushing
- Calumet vs. Eagle River Northland Pines (WI)
- Cheboygan vs. Petoskey
- Lincoln Alcona vs. Mio
- Onaway vs. Inland River Indian Lakes
- Posen vs. Hale
- Calumet vs. Escanaba
- Plainwell vs. Vicksburg
- Hemlock vs. Freeland
- Comstock Park vs. Sparta
- Cheboygan vs. Rudyard
- Rogers City vs. Hillman
Boys Basketball
- Comstock Park vs. East Grand Rapids
- Johannesburg-Lewiston vs. Pellston
- Cheboygan vs. Petoskey
- Comstock Park vs. Fruitport
- Posen vs. Lincoln Alcona
- East Kentwood vs. Grandville
- Hillman vs. Hale
- Hemlock vs. Shepherd
- East Lansing vs. Lansing Eastern
- East Kentwood vs. Holland West Ottawa
- Rockford vs. East Kentwood
- Cheboygan vs. Newberry
- Calumet vs. Iron River West Iron County
- Plainwell vs. Vicksburg
MHSAA Perspective: In this week's edition, John Johnson explains how situations involving the use of ineligible students quickly can become complicated - How Does This Happen?
Division 3 Final: Eaglets Fly Again
November 29, 2011
Five times since its most recent MHSAA football championship, Orchard Lake St. Mary returned to the championship game – and lost.
Saturday night there was no stopping the Eaglets – or their running attack – at the Division 3 Final at Ford Field.
St. Mary rushed for 478 yards – and after near-misses the last two seasons won its first championship since 2000 with a 45-7 win over top-ranked Mount Pleasant.
"I knew what it felt like to lose, so it gave me the fire and other teammates the fire to win,” St. Mary senior running back Spencer McInnis said. “It’s unexplainable. It’s awesome. It’s something I’ve wanted since I was a kid. I always knew I was going to go to St. Mary’s. It’s just a great feeling.”
The Eaglets (12-2) had fallen by eight and three to East Grand Rapids in the last two Finals, and in a five-overtime classic in 2007. They entered the playoffs ranked No. 4 by The Associated Press – but as champions of the Detroit Catholic League Central, which sent three teams to Ford Field this fall.
“It was great to win again,” said St. Mary coach George Porritt, who finished his 23rd season leading the program. “It’s a collective effort from these kids, and it’s been all year long.”
McInnis ran for 213 of the team’s 478 rushing yards, and took three of his 23 carries into the end zone. Junior brother Parker McInnis ran for 96 yards and a score, as did junior fullback Grant Niemiec. Senior James Ross added another running touchdown.
“We were in position to make some tackles, and it wasn’t a scheme thing or guys getting blocked. It’s just that their athletes made our guys miss, or we couldn’t tackle them,” Mount Pleasant coach Jason McIntyre said. “I’ve never seen backs that we couldn’t tackle one on one or two on one. A lot of teams will have one great back, and you can focus and rally there. But they had three and four.”
The Oilers’ usually-strong running game finished with just 122 yards, led by senior quarterback Ryan Elliott’s 40. He also had Mount Pleasant’s lone score. It was the team’s first Finals appearance – and only loss this fall as it finished 13-1.
Junior defensive back Cory Williams led the Oilers with nine tackles. Senior lineman Dylan Zerki led the Eaglets with 11, and Ross had 10.