Top Students to Broadcast Finals
March 26, 2015
By John Johnson
MHSAA communications director
Saturday’s MHSAA Boys Basketball Finals will have live streaming audio at MHSAANetwork.com from student broadcasters who took top honors in the 2014-15 Michigan Student Broadcast Awards Sports Play-By-Play category sponsored by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation.
Kyle Marino and Riley Holder from Lake Orion took first place in the television play-by-play category and will announce the Class C and B title tilts. Dylan Wittenberg and Foster Stubbs will represent Bloomfield Hills High School in calling the Class A championship game. The duo were part of crews that took the top two places in the play-by-play radio category.
There also will be two student-produced public service announcements airing this weekend. A radio message on parental sportsmanship, produced by Kent Davis of Bloomfield Hills High School and a television message on sportsmanship by Caleb Gulledge and Trace Clinton of Davison High School will air in their respective mediums Saturday.
In addition, approximately 50 aspiring student broadcasters from MHSAA members participating in the School Broadcast Program will participate in a Breslin Center field trip program Friday, listening to industry professionals and peer student broadcasters in a morning workshop, before afternoon tours of broadcast facilities at the Breslin Center, WKAR-TV at Michigan State University and the FOX Sports Detroit remote unit covering the Finals. The students also will engage in their own coverage of the games. The field trip is conducted in cooperation with the Student Broadcast Foundation and Herff Jones.
Playoffs Coming to MHSAA.tv, Fox
October 29, 2014
A big month of live streaming video from MHSAA Tournaments gets underway this week, with the return of the PrepZone on FoxSportsDetroit.com and MHSAA.tv broadcasts of Finals in two sports, plus its own Football Playoff coverage.
It’s the fourth season for the popular PrepZone on FoxSportsDetroit.com, which will provide free live coverage of four Football Playoff games each week for the first four weekends of the tournament.
Games to be covered Friday are:
- Division 2 – Warren DeLaSalle at Grosse Pointe North
- Division 4 – Grosse Ile at Chelsea
- Division 4 – Kalamazoo United (Hackett, Christian, Heritage Christian) at Eaton Rapids
- Division 6 – Hillsdale at Hanover-Horton
All games will take place Friday at 7 p.m., with short-term archives available on FoxSportsDetroit.com and long-term on-demand viewing on MHSAA.tv.
Boys Soccer coverage on MHSAA.tv begins Wednesday with three live Semifinal games, and wraps up on Saturday with live coverage from Finals sites at Brighton and East Kentwood. Here’s the full schedule (all coverage by subscription):
Semifinals – Wednesday
- Div. 1 – Saline v. Canton at Holt, 5 p.m.
- Div. 4 – Grand Rapids Covenant Christian v. Muskegon Western Michigan Christian at Cedar Springs, 6 p.m.
- Div. 2 – East Lansing v. Mason at Holt, 7 p.m.
- Finals – Saturday
- Noon – 2 Finals games (Sites and Divisions TBA after Semifinals)
- 3 p.m. – 2 Finals games (Sites and Divisions TBA after Semifinals)
Live streaming of the Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals takes place Saturday at Michigan International Speedway. Planned coverage on MHSAA.tv includes a leader cam, split cams at one and two miles and a camera at the top of the MIS press center covering the finish of race. Commentary will come from a team of reporters around the course.
Here’s the complete schedule (all coverage by subscription unless noted):
- 9:55 a.m. – On Air – Morning Session
- 10 a.m. – Division 4 Boys
- 10:30 a.m. – Division 3 Boys
- 11 a.m. – Division 4 Girls
- 11:30 a.m. – Division 2 Girls
- 12:15 p.m. – Division 3 & 4 Awards (Free video stream)
- 1:25 p.m. – On Air – Afternoon Session
- 1:30 p.m. – Division 2 Boys
- 2 p.m. – Division 1 Boys
- 2:30 p.m. – Division 2 Girls
- 3 p.m. – Division 1 Girls
- 3:45 p.m. – Division 1 & 2 Awards (Free video stream)
MHSAA.tv also will cover two Football Playoff games live each Saturday the first three weeks of the tournament and 12 Semifinal games on Nov. 22. Here’s this week’s schedule (all coverage by subscription):
- Div. 2 – Lansing Everett at Flushing, 1 p.m.
- Div. 2 – Caledonia at Muskegon Mona Shores, 7 p.m.
Coverage of the Girls Volleyball Tournament begins next week, with two District Semifinal Matches each night for four straight nights. Here’s the complete schedule (all coverage by subscription):
Nov. 3 – Class C at Hanover-Horton
- Concord v. Jackson Lumen Christi, 5:30 p.m.
- Napoleon v. Vandercook Lake, 7 p.m.
Nov. 4 – Class C at Calumet
- Ironwood v. L’Anse, 6 p.m.
- Calumet v. Hancock, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 5 – Class B at Frankenmuth
- Frankenmuth v. Otisville-Lakeville/North Branch winner, 6 p.m.
- Caro v. Flint Northwestern/Mt. Morris winner, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 6 – Class A at Hudsonville
- Jenison v. Grandville/Holland West Ottawa winner, 5 p.m.
- Hudsonville/Holland winner v. Wyoming/Zeeland East winner, 7 p.m.
A Day Pass subscription to MHSAA.tv is $9.95. A Month Pass subscription is $14.95, enabling purchasers to watch all of this week’s action plus three weeks of coverage of the Girls Volleyball Tournament, weekly Football Playoff coverage and the Preliminaries and Finals of the Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Tournament. All events become available for free on demand viewing three days after the date of the contest.
Radio: The MHSAA Internet Broadcast Network – MHSAANetwork.com – kicks off its Fall audio coverage with the Boys Soccer Finals on Saturday. During the month of November, the MHSAA Network will also provide live free audio of the 8-Player and 11-Player Football Finals and the Semifinals and Finals of the Girls Volleyball Tournament.
School Broadcast Program: A number of events broadcast last week are available on-demand on MHSAA.tv:
Soccer Regionals
- Bay City Western vs. East Lansing
- Madison Heights Lamphere vs. Ortonville-Brandon
- Kalamazoo Hackett vs. St. Joseph Lake Michigan Catholic
- Marysville vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood
- Spring Lake vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern
- Grand Rapids Covenant Christian vs. Kalamazoo Heritage Christian
- Grand Haven vs. Saline
- Elk Rapids vs. Grant
- Ludington vs. Tawas
- Okemos vs. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central
- Spring Lake vs. East Lansing
Volleyball
- Montrose vs. Genesee
- Central Montcalm vs. Big Rapids
- Calumet vs. Houghton
- Posen vs. Mio
- Montrose vs. Saginaw Arts & Sciences
- Calumet vs. Lake Linden-Hubbell
Football
- Hillman vs. Hale
- Negaunee vs. Ishpeming Westwood
- Whittemore-Prescott vs. Reese
- Stanton Central Montcalm vs. Lakeview
- Rockford vs. Holland West Ottawa
- Pinconning vs. Midland Bullock Creek
- Comstock Park vs. Sparta
- Posen vs. Owendale-Gagetown
- Watervliet vs. Lawton
- Cedar Springs vs. Ada Forest Hills Eastern
MHSAA Highlights: This week's package includes clips from the Spring Lake/East Lansing soccer and the Midland Bullock Creek/Pinconning and Ishpeming Westwood/Negaunee football games.