This Week in High School Sports: 2/14/24
By
Jon Ross
MHSAA Director of Broadcast Properties
February 14, 2024
This week's edition highlights the 114-year basketball rivalry between Saginaw High and Saginaw Arthur Hill that will conclude this season, presents Game Balls to standouts in basketball and bowling, and invites Class of 2026 candidates to join the MHSAA Student Advisory Council.
The 5-minute program each week includes feature stories from MHSAA.com or network affiliates, along with "Be the Referee," a 60-second look at the fine art of officiating.
"This Week in High School Sports" is powered by MI Student Aid, a division within the Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP).
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Previous Editions
Feb. 7: MHSAA/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Awards, Charles E. Forsythe Award honoree - Listen
Jan. 31: Girls sports participation, MHSAA Wrestling Tournament schedule - Listen
Jan. 24: MHSAA Women in Sports Leadership Conference, Hillman basketball's Trenton Taratuta - Listen
Jan. 10: Doug Towler's ice hockey coaching record, 2023-24 officials registration news - Listen
Jan. 3: MHSAA Girls & Boys Basketball Tournament schedules, Finals dates for all winter sports - Listen
Nov. 22: MHSAA Girls Volleyball, 8-Player Football and Lower Peninsula Girls Swimming & Diving Finals reviews - Listen
Nov. 15: Football record breakers, 2022-23 MHSAA postseason attendance - Listen
Nov. 8: MHSAA Boys Soccer, Lower Peninsula Cross Country Finals reviews - Listen
Nov. 1: MHSAA Girls Volleyball Tournament schedule, Football Playoffs first-round review - Listen
Oct. 26: Lower Peninsula Girls Golf Finals, Boys Tennis Finals review - Listen
Oct. 18: MHSAA Football Playoff selection, Bear Lake football coach Sam Mullet - Listen
Oct. 11: Upper Peninsula soccer, MHSAA sports participation excels nationally - Listen
Oct. 4: Jackson Lumen Christi's Herb Brogan, MHSAA Sportsmanship Summits - Listen
Sept. 24: All-woman football officiating crew, Powers North Central's record winning streak ends - Listen
Sept. 21: 35th MHSAA/Farm Bureau Insurance Scholar-Athlete Awards, Grass Lake QB Brayden Lape - Listen
Sept. 14: Athletic director education, MHSAA video library - Listen
Sept. 7: Adjustments to 11-player football, boys soccer Finals schedules - Listen
Aug. 31: New out-of-state opponents rules, football record book updates - Listen
Aug. 24: MHSAA.com coverage ramps up, "Made in Michigan" tells us where they are now - Listen
Live Stats, Games on MHSAA.tv
December 9, 2014
Another feature offered on the MHSAA.tv website is the availability of live basketball stats at member schools using the Digital Scout platform for their in-game statistics keeping.
Digital Scout is a division of PlayOn! Sports, which powers the NFHS Network. Schools input statistics live using a handheld device. When connected to the Internet, those stats stream live on a school’s portal page and on the MHSAA portal page. For those games which have live streaming video and live stats, they are incorporated onto a single page to enhance the viewer’s experience.
Last week, live stats were available for over a dozen girls basketball games, along with a similar number of basketball and ice hockey games with live streaming video from MHSAA members participating in the School Broadcast Program; those numbers will only grow now that the boys basketball season has begun.
The School Broadcast Program gives members an opportunity to showcase excellence in their schools by creating video programming of athletic and non-athletic events with students gaining skills in announcing, camera operation, directing/producing and graphics. The program also gives schools the opportunity to raise money through advertising and viewing subscriptions.
Here’s the schedule of School Broadcast Program members planning to cover varsity competition this week for broadcast at MHSAA.tv (As of Dec. 8). The following events will be shown live:
Monday – Dec. 8
Boys Basketball – Highland Milford at Gibraltar Carlson, 5:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Sault Ste. Marie at Escanaba, 6:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Pellston at Mackinaw City, 7 p.m.
Tuesday – Dec. 9
Boys Basketball – Cassopolis at Dowagiac, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Negaunee at Escanaba, 7:30 p.m.
Friday – Dec. 12
Boys Basketball – Riverview at Gibraltar Carlson, 5:30 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Grand Rapids Catholic Central v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood @ Gaylord, 6:15 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Atlanta at Hillman, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Boyne Falls at Mackinaw City, 7 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Rochester at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Kingsford at Escanaba, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday – Dec. 13
Ice Hockey – Flint Powers Catholic v. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood @ Gaylord, 4:15 p.m.
Ice Hockey – Farmington Hills Harrison at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Monday – Dec. 15
Boys Basketball – Dollar Bay at Calumet, 7 p.m.
Tuesday – Dec. 16
Girls Basketball – West Iron County at Calumet, 7 p.m.
The following events will be available on video following their completion on a delayed basis:
Monday – Dec. 8
Boys Basketball – Fairview at Oscoda, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball – Hale at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
Tuesday – Dec. 9
Girls Basketball – Lansing Eastern at Mason, 7 p.m.
Thursday – Dec. 11
Boys Basketball – Hale at Oscoda, 6 p.m.
Friday – Dec. 12
Wrestling – Charlevoix at Rogers City, 1:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Posen at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
Monday - Dec. 15
Boys Basketball – Oscoda at Rogers City, 7 p.m.
Tuesday – Dec. 16
Girls Basketball - Okemos at Mason, 7 p.m.
Girls Basketball – Rogers City at Oscoda, 6 p.m.
All sporting events – live or delayed - are available on MHSAA.tv on a subscription basis for their first 72 hours online. A portion of each subscription is returned to school originating the broadcast. Subscriptions run either $9.95 for a Day Pass, or $14.95 for a Month Pass. Some schools are also offering Annual Passes at a discounted rate. All sporting events become available for free On Demand viewing three days after they have been posted.
To view all of the recent School Broadcast Program productions, go to MHSAA.TV, click On Demand on the navigation bar of the left side of the page, and on the Filters tab at the top of next page, click on All States and then select Michigan.
See below for highlights from last week's School Broadcast Program events on MHSAA.tv.