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EAST LANSING, Mich. – April 16 – The Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Girls Competitive Cheer Finals will air on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS on Saturday (April 21) beginning at Noon.
It’s the second of four weekends of championship coverage on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS. In coming weeks, MHSAA Finals in 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.
Saturday’s programs on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS will feature the Third Round of competition. Here’s the schedule:
• Noon – Division 1 Girls Competitive Cheer Finals
• 1 p.m. – Division 2 Girls Competitive Cheer Finals
• 2 p.m. – Division 3 Girls Competitive Cheer Finals
• 3 p.m. – Division 4 Girls Competitive Cheer Finals
Spring sports action debuts this week on cable, along with reairs of MHSAA Team Dual Wrestling Finals on Comcast Channel 900.
Here are the day by day listings for MHSAA Network programming in the coming week. All programs are on Comcast Channel 900 unless otherwise indicated:
April 18
7 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Caledonia at Grandville - Taped 4-11-12
9:30 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Holly at East Lansing - Taped 4-10-12
April 19
9 a.m. - Girls Soccer - Caledonia at Grandville - Taped 4-11-12
8 p.m. - Boys Lacrosse - Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at West Bloomfield - Taped 4-13-12
April 20
9 a.m. - Boys Lacrosse - Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at West Bloomfield - Taped 4-13-12
April 21
Noon - Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 1 Finals - Final Round - FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS
Noon - Team Wrestling - St. Johns vs. Lowell - MHSAA Division 2 Final
1 p.m. - Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 2 Finals - Final Round - FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS
2 p.m. - Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 3 Finals - Final Round - FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS
3 p.m. - Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 4 Finals - Final Round - FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS
3 p.m. - Team Wrestling - Detroit Catholic Central vs. Oxford - MHSAA Division 1 Final
7 p.m. - Team Wrestling - Hudson vs. Shelby - MHSAA Division 4 Final
9:30 p.m. - Team Wrestling - Richmond vs. Dundee - MHSAA Division 3 Final
April 22
9 a.m. - Girls Soccer - Grand Blanc at Rochester Adams - Taped 4-14-12
Noon - Girls Soccer - Holly at East Lansing - Taped 4-10-12
3 p.m. - Team Wrestling - Detroit Catholic Central vs. Oxford - MHSAA Division 1 Final
7 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Grand Blanc at Rochester Adams - Taped 4-14-12
April 23
9 a.m. - MHSAA Winter Super Show - Highlights of MHSAA Championships in Bowling, Gymnastics, Skiing, Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving
April 24
2 p.m. - MHSAA Winter Super Show - Highlights of MHSAA Championships in Bowling, Gymnastics, Skiing, Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving - FOX Sports Detroit
April 25
7 p.m. - Boys Lacrosse - Okemos at Haslett/Williamston co-op - Taped 4-17-12
9:30 p.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Brighton at Hartland - Taped 4-20-12
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. 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 in the coming week:
April 17
Boys Lacrosse – Okemos at Haslett/Williamston co-op
April 18
Girls Lacrosse – Grand Rapids Catholic Central at East Grand Rapids
April 20
Girls Soccer – Rochester Adams at Troy
Girls Lacrosse – Brighton at Hartland
April 23
Girls Lacrosse – South Lyon Unified at Brighton
April 24
Birmingham Brother Rice at Detroit Catholic Central
The MHSAA.tv Website is being populated with content from member schools from both peninsulas participating in the Digital Broadcasting Program. Over 50 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:
Girls Soccer
Montrose vs. South Lyon East - http://www.mhsaa.tv/montrose/events/33357
Jackson Northwest vs. East Lansing - http://www.mhsaa.tv/eastlansing/events/33317
North Branch vs. Otisville Lakeville - http://www.mhsaa.tv/northbranch/events/33185
The MHSAA.tv Website has already set a new viewership record through the Fall and Winter sports seasons with 1.56 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 Semifinals, 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 2,022,772. 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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