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EAST LANSING, Mich. – April 9 –  Four straight weekends of Michigan High School Athletic Association championships will air on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS in April, beginning on Sunday (April 15) at Noon with the Team Dual Wrestling Finals at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek.

Over the following weekends on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS, MHSAA Finals in Girls Competitive Cheer on April 21, Individual Wrestling on April 29, and Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving on May 5 will air.  FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS is available on cable carriers statewide.  Satellite providers like DISH and DirecTV do not carry tape-delayed FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS programming.  All of these championships will also be available on Comcast Channel 900 after their initial airing on PLUS.

Here’s the schedule for Sunday’s airings of the Team Dual Wrestling Finals on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS:

Noon – Division 1 – Detroit Catholic Central vs. Oxford

2:30 p.m. – Division 2 – St. Johns vs. Lowell

4:30 p.m. – Division 3 – Richmond vs. Dundee

7 p.m. – Division 4 – Hudson vs. Shelby

Coming up this week on cable are reairs of MHSAA Ice Hockey Semifinal and Final games on Comcast Channel 900. 

For media outlets in Comcast service areas, here are the day by day listings for the coming week of MHSAA Network programming on Channel 900. 

April 11
7 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Brighton vs. Orchard Lake St. Mary's - MHSAA Division 1 Semifinal
9:30 p.m. - Ice Hockey - East Kentwood vs. Grosse Pointe North - MHSAA Division 1 Semifinal

April 12
9 a.m. - Ice Hockey - Brighton vs. Orchard Lake St. Mary's - MHSAA Division 1 Semifinal
8 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Brighton vs. Grosse Pointe North - MHSAA Division 1 Final

April 13
9 a.m. - Ice Hockey - Brighton vs. Grosse Pointe North - MHSAA Division 1 Final

April 14
9 a.m. - MHSAA Winter Super Show - Highlights of MHSAA Championships in Bowling, Gymnastics, Skiing, Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving
Noon - Ice Hockey - Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern-Northern co-op vs. Birmingham Brother Rice - MHSAA Division 2 Semifinal
3 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Grosse Pointe South vs. Port Huron Northern - MHSAA Division 2 Semifinal
7 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Birmingham Brother Rice vs. Grosse Pointe South - MHSAA Division 2 Final
9:30 p.m. - MHSAA Winter Super Show - Highlights of MHSAA Championships in Bowling, Gymnastics, Skiing, Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving

April 15
9 a.m. - MHSAA Winter Super Show - Highlights of MHSAA Championships in Bowling, Gymnastics, Skiing, Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving
Noon - Ice Hockey - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett vs. Chelsea - MHSAA Division 3 Semifinal
3 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Houghton vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central - MHSAA Division 3 Semifinal
7 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett vs. Houghton - MHSAA Division 3 Final

April 16
7 p.m. - Ice Hockey - Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett vs. Houghton - MHSAA Division 3 Final

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.  For 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.

Spring sports coverage is underway.  Here’s where the MHSAA Network cameras will be this week:

April 10
Girls Soccer – Holly at East Lansing

April 11
Girls Soccer – Grandville at Caledonia

April 13
Boys Lacrosse – Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at West Bloomfield

April 14
Girls Soccer – Grand Blanc at Rochester Adams

The MHSAA.tv Website has already set a new viewership record through the Fall and Winter sports seasons with 1.55 million pageviews during the 2011-12 school year as of March 31, surpassing the previous record of 1.48 million pageviews during the entire 2010-11 school year.  Over 950,000 pageviews took place during Winter tournaments, when live streaming of the Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving Finals, Team Dual Wrestling Finals, Individual Wrestling Finals, Girls Competitive Cheer Finals, Ice Hockey Semfinals, Girls Basketball Semifinals and Boys Basketball Semifinals took place.

 

In addition, a record 456,260 pageviews have been generated by MHSAA Network content being streamed live on FoxSportsDetroit.com, bringing the total to date to 2,010,488.  For the entire 2010-11 school year, there were approximately 400,000 pageviews of live streaming MHSAA Network content on FoxSportsDetroit.com, bringing the total for that year to 1.88 million.  In 2009-10, MHSAA.tv had 1.13 million pageviews.

 

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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