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Individual Wrestling Finals Air Sunday On FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS; MHSAA Network Listings For Week of April 23

EAST LANSING, Mich. – April 23 – The Michigan High School Athletic Association’s Individual Wrestling Finals will air on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS on Sunday (April 29) beginning at Noon.

This is the third of four weekends of championship coverage on FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS.  Next weekend, the MHSAA Finals in Lower Peninsula Boys Swimming & Diving will air on May 5.  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 title bout in each weight class in each division.  Here’s the schedule:

• Noon – Division 1 Individual Wrestling Finals
• 2:30 p.m. – Division 2 Individual Wrestling Finals
• 5 p.m. – Division 3 Individual Wrestling Finals
•  7:30 p.m. – Division 4 Individual Wrestling Finals

Spring sports action continues this week on cable, along with all three rounds of coverage of the MHSAA Girls Competitive Cheer 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 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

April 26
9 a.m. - Boys Lacrosse - Okemos at Haslett/Williamston co-op - Taped 4-17-12
8 p.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Grand Rapids Catholic Central at East Grand Rapids - Taped 4-18-12

April 27
9 a.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Grand Rapids Catholic Central at East Grand Rapids - Taped 4-18-12

April 28
Noon - Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 3 Finals - All Three Rounds
3 p.m. - Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 4 Finals - All Three Rounds
7 p.m. - Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 1 Finals - All Three Rounds
9:30 p.m. - Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 2 Finals - All Three Rounds

April 29
9 a.m. - Girls Soccer - Rochester Adams at Troy - Taped 4-20-12
Noon - Individual Wrestling - MHSAA Division 1 Finals - FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS
Noon - Girls Lacrosse - Grand Rapids Catholic Central at East Grand Rapids - Taped 4-18-12
2:30 p.m. - Individual Wrestling - MHSAA Division 2 Finals - FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS
3 p.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Brighton at Hartland - Taped 4-20-12
5 p.m. - Individual Wrestling - MHSAA Division 3 Finals - FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS
7 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Rochester Adams at Troy - Taped 4-20-12
7:30 p.m. - Individual Wrestling - MHSAA Division 4 Finals - FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS

April 30
9 a.m. - MHSAA Winter Super Show - Highlights of MHSAA Championships in Bowling, Gymnastics, Skiing, Upper Peninsula Swimming & Diving

May 2
7 p.m. - Boys Lacrosse - Birmingham Brother Rice at Detroit Catholic Central - Taped 4-24-12
9:30 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Grandville at East Kentwood - Taped 4-27-12

Each week’s featured games will be available for on-demand viewing on the MHSAA.tv Website the day after their initial playback on Comcast; and a number of events will be available for Comcast subscribers to watch through its Xfinity Video On Demand service.  Here’s the current listings for MHSAA Network content on Xfinity Video On Demand:

Available April 23 to May 7
Team Wrestling - Hudson vs. Shelby - MHSAA Division 4 Final
Team Wrestling - Dundee vs. Richmond - MHSAA Division 3 Final
Team Wrestling - Lowell vs. St. Johns - MHSAA Division 2 Final
Team Wrestling - Detroit Catholic Central vs. Oxford - MHSAA Division 1 Final
Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 1 Final
Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 2 Final
Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 3 Final
Girls Competitive Cheer - MHSAA Division 4 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 in the coming week:

April 23
Girls Lacrosse – South Lyon Unified at Brighton

April 24
Boys Lacrosse – Birmingham Brother Rice at Detroit Catholic Central

April 27
Girls Soccer – East Kentwood at Grandville

April 28
Boys Lacrosse – Troy Athens at Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central

April 30
Softball – Mason at Eaton Rapids

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
Holt at Mason - http://www.mhsaa.tv/mason/events/33666
Owosso at Montrose - http://www.mhsaa.tv/montrose/events/33454
Jackson at East Lansing - http://www.mhsaa.tv/eastlansing/events/33472
Byron at Montrose - http://www.mhsaa.tv/montrose/events/33452

Baseball
Lake Fenton at Montrose – Game One - http://www.mhsaa.tv/montrose/events/33453
Lake Fenton at Montrose – Game Two - http://www.mhsaa.tv/montrose/events/33556

Softball
Grand Ledge at Owosso – Freshmen - Game One – http://www.mhsaa.tv/owosso/events/33554
Grand Ledge at Owosso – Freshmen - Game Two – http://www.mhsaa.tv/owosso/events/33555

Through last Saturday (April 21), the Student Broadcast Program had posted 2,126 events of all types of athletic and non-athletic events occurring between the schools involved in the program.  There were 48 productions last week – eight of them athletic events; the remainder programs ranging from daily announcements and news; to concerts, and speeches.  Last year’s student-produced events totaled 1,479 over the entire school year.

The MHSAA.tv Website has already set a new viewership record through the Fall and Winter sports seasons with 1.58 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 2,027,395.  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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