Contact: John Johnson or Geoff Kimmerly
517.332.5046 or [email protected]
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Feb. 27 – The winter tournament season enters its busiest month this weekend with two sets of live-streamed championships – Individual Wrestling Finals from The Palace of Auburn Hills and Competitive Cheer Finals from the Grand Rapids Delta Plex. Both will be broadcast on the MHSAA.tv and FoxSportsDetroit.com websites.
The MHSAA Network will have 12 cameras – one for every mat – capturing all of the wrestling action beginning with Thursday’s Round 1 at 2:15 p.m. Round 2 begins Friday at 8:30 a.m., with live coverage through the Semifinals (eight mats) scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.
Wrestling begins again at 8:30 a.m. Saturday with Rounds 6 and 7. The Consolation Medal Finals begin approximately 11:30 a.m.
Championship matches for all four divisions begin at 4:45 p.m. Saturday. Viewers can watch all four mats plus awards presentations.
Cheer Finals will kick off with Division 1 at 6 p.m. Friday. The Division 2 Final is at 10 a.m. Saturday morning, followed by Division 4 at 2 p.m. and the Division 3 Final to close the weekend at 6 p.m.
Coming up on cable this week are boys and girls basketball games from the final weeks of the regular season in the Southern Michigan Activities Association, Kensington Lakes Activities Association and the Macomb Area Conference. For media outlets in Comcast service areas, here are day-by-day listings for the coming week of MHSAA Network programming on Channel 900. We would appreciate if you could run at least the Wednesday and Thursday listings, as they are the first air times for new content each week.
Also listed are events that will be streamed live at MHSAA.tv and FoxSportsDetroit.com:
February 27
9 a.m. - Wrestling - Division 1 Team Regional Final at Waterford Mott - Taped 2-15-12
February 29
7 p.m. - Girls Basketball - Westland John Glenn at Waterford Kettering - Taped 2-22-12
9:30 p.m. - Boys Basketball - Brooklyn Columbia Central at Hillsdale - Taped 2-21-12
March 1
9 a.m. - Girls Basketball - Westland John Glenn at Waterford Kettering - Taped 2-22-12
2 p.m. - Wrestling - Individual Finals, Round 1 - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
8 p.m. - Boys Basketball - Clinton Township Chippewa Valley at Macomb L'Anse Creuse North - Taped 2-21-12
March 2
8:30 a.m. - Wrestling - Individual Finals, Rounds 2-3-4 - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
9 a.m. - Boys Basketball - Clinton Township Chippewa Valley at Macomb L'Anse Creuse North - Taped 2-21-12
6 p.m. - Cheer - Division 1 Final - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
7 p.m. - Wrestling - Individual Finals, Round 5 - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
March 3
8:30 a.m. - Wrestling - Individual Finals, Rounds 6-7-8 - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
10 a.m. - Cheer - Division 2 Final - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
12 p.m. - Boys Basketball - Brooklyn Columbia Central at Hillsdale - Taped 2-21-12
2 p.m. - Cheer - Division 4 Final - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
3 p.m. - Boys Basketball - Clinton Township Chippewa Valley at Macomb L'Anse Creuse North - Taped 2-21-12
4:30 p.m. - Wrestling - Individual Finals, Championship matches - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
6 p.m. – Cheer - Division 3 Final - LIVE on MHSAA.tv and FOXSportDetroit.com
7 p.m. - Girls Basketball - Westland John Glenn at Waterford Kettering - Taped 2-22-12
9:30 p.m. - Boys Basketball - Brooklyn Columbia Central at Hillsdale - Taped 2-21-12
March 4
9 a.m. - Boys Basketball - Brooklyn Columbia Central at Hillsdale - Taped 2-21-12
12 p.m. - Girls Basketball - Westland John Glenn at Waterford Kettering - Taped 2-22-12
3 p.m. - Boys Basketball - Clinton Township Chippewa Valley at Macomb L'Anse Creuse North - Taped 2-21-12
7 p.m. - Girls Basketball - Westland John Glenn at Waterford Kettering - Taped 2-22-12
The complete schedule of upcoming MHSAA Network productions on Comcast Channel 900 and the MHSAA.tv website can be found exclusively online by clicking on MHSAA.tv and selecting TV Schedule. A comprehensive schedule of MHSAA Finals coverage with all of its broadcasting partners can be found under the MHSAA Network heading on the MHSAA Website.
Here’s where the MHSAA Network cameras will be this week:
February 28
Boys basketball – Dearborn at Dearborn Heights Robichaud
Boys basketball – East Lansing at Lansing Catholic
February 29
Hockey – Pre-Regional Final, Division 2, at Ann Arbor’s Cube Arena
March 1
Hockey – Pre-Regional Final, Division 1, at East Kentwood
March 1-3
Wrestling – Individual Finals at The Palace of Auburn Hills
March 2-3
Cheer – Finals at the Grand Rapids Delta Plex
The MHSAA.tv Website is being populated with content from member schools from both peninsulas participating in the Digital Broadcasting Program. A total of 65 schools are involved in the program from the Big 8 Conference, Big 9 Conference, Detroit Catholic High School League, Charter School Conference, Downriver League, Flint Metro League, Genesee Athletic Conference, Huron League, Kalamazoo Valley Association, Kensington Lakes Activities Association, Macomb Area Conference, Michigan Interscholastic Hockey League, Northwest Conference, Oakland Activities Association, O-K Conference, Saginaw Valley League, Southeastern Conference, Southwestern Athletic Conference, Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (Big 16), Tri-Valley Conference, West Michigan D League, West-Pac Conference and the Wolverine Conference.
Here are student-produced games posted to the MHSAA.tv Website from last week:
Ice Hockey
Trenton vs. Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook-Kingswood - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/25349
Grosse Ile vs. Brownstown-Woodhaven - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30908
Calumet vs. Marquette - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30754
Detroit Catholic Central vs. Port Huron Northern - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/31192
Boys Basketball
Grand Ledge at East Lansing - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30560
Rockford at East Kentwood - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30785 (second half) http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30878
Melvindale at Brownstown-Woodhaven - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30851
Jenison at East Kentwood - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30896
Ionia at Owosso - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/31225
Bear Lake at Brethren junior varsity - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30882
Bear Lake at Brethren varsity - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30883
Flat Rock at Monroe St. Mary Catholic - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/31004
Trenton at Brownstown-Woodhaven - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/31105
Lake Linden-Hubbell at Calumet - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30753
Portage Central at Portage Northern - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/31162
DeWitt at St. Johns - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/31092
Girls Basketball
Baraga at Calumet - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30752
Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills at Greenville freshman - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30951
Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills at Greenville junior varsity - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30952
Grand Rapids Kenowa Hills at Greenville varsity - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30953
Three Rivers at Plainwell - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/29660
Bear Lake at Brethren junior varsity - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30827
Bear Lake at Brethren varsity - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30828
Parchment at Kalamazoo Christian - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/30850
Flint Beecher at Montrose - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/31048
Portage Central at Portage Northern - http://www.mhsaa.tv/events/31138
Watch for more schools to begin posting more content in even more sports in the weeks ahead. Schools interested in becoming a part of the Digital Broadcasting Program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.
The MHSAA Network delivers coverage of regular season and MHSAA Tournament competition across multiple platforms – cable television, radio and the internet – to fans of high school sports across the state and around the world. In addition to providing content to cable partners Comcast Television and Fox Sports Detroit, the MHSAA Network features two websites – MHSAA.tv and MHSAANetwork.com – where fans can click to view or listen to content; and a radio network of over 40 stations statewide which annually carry the MHSAA Basketball Finals and the commentary MHSAA Perspective, which airs for 30 weeks during the school year.
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