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EAST LANSING, Mich. – May 21 – MHSAA Network coverage of spring sports action continues this week on Comcast Channel 900.
Next week will be the first of three consecutive weeks during which the MHSAA Network will provide live streaming video of championship activity on the MHSAA.tv and FoxSportsDetroit.com Websites. On June 2, the Finals of the MHSAA Track & Field Tournament will be streamed live from East Kentwood High School, Houseman Field in Grand Rapids, Comstock Park High School, Jenison High School and Kingsford High School. The following two weekends will feature live streams of Finals in Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball and Girls Soccer.
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:
May 23
7 p.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Okemos at Brighton - Taped 5-14-12
9:30 p.m. - Boys Lacrosse - Troy Athens at Holt - Taped 5-15-12
May 24
9 a.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Okemos at Brighton - Taped 5-14-12
8 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Armada at Richmond - Taped 5-14-12
May 25
9 a.m. - Girls Soccer - Armada at Richmond - Taped 5-14-12
Noon - Individual Wrestling - MHSAA Division 4 Finals - FOX Sports Detroit
May 26
Noon - Girls Soccer - Rockford at Grandville - Taped 5-15-12
3 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Armada at Richmond - Taped 5-14-12
7 p.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Okemos at Brighton - Taped 5-14-12
9:30 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Rockford at Grandville - Taped 5-15-12
May 27
9 a.m. - Girls Soccer - Armada at Richmond - Taped 5-14-12
Noon - Boys Lacrosse - Troy Athens at Holt - Taped 5-15-12
3 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Rockford at Grandville - Taped 5-15-12
7 p.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Okemos at Brighton - Taped 5-14-12
May 28
9 a.m. - Girls Soccer - Rockford at Grandville - Taped 5-15-12
May 30
7 p.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Grand Blanc vs. Midland Dow - MHSAA Division 1 Regional at Lake Orion - Taped 5-24-12
9:30 p.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Clarkston vs. Waterford United - MHSAA Division 1 Regional at Lake Orion - Taped 5-24-12
May 31
9 a.m. - Girls Lacrosse - Grand Blanc vs. Midland Dow - MHSAA Division 1 Regional at Lake Orion - Taped 5-24-12
8 p.m. - Girls Soccer - Rochester Adams at Auburn Hills Avondale - Taped 5-17-12
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 May 21 to June 5
Boys Swimming & Diving - MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 2 Finals
Boys Swimming & Diving - MHSAA Lower Peninsula Division 3 Finals
Girls Soccer - Troy vs. Rochester Adams
Girls Soccer - Grandville vs. East Kentwood
Softball - Mason vs. Eaton Rapids - Game 1
Softball - Mason vs. Eaton Rapids - Game 2
Boys Lacrosse - Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Troy Athens
Boys Lacrosse - Detroit Catholic Central vs. Birmingham Brother Rice
Available May 25 to June 11
Girls Lacrosse - Grand Rapids Forest Hills Unified vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
Boys Lacrosse - Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central vs. Rockford
Baseball - Birmingham Brother Rice vs. Orchard Lake St. Mary's - Game 1
Baseball - Birmingham Brother Rice vs. Orchard Lake St. Mary's - Game 2
Boys Lacrosse - Troy Athens vs. Saline
Girls Lacrosse - Rockford vs. Grand Rapids Catholic Central
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:
May 21
Girls Soccer – Holland Christian at Hudsonville Unity Christian – O-K Conference Green Division Final
May 24
Girls Lacrosse – MHSAA Division 1 Regional at Lake Orion
Grand Blanc vs. Midland Dow
Clarkston vs. Waterford United
May 28
Boys Lacrosse – MHSAA Division 2 Regional at Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard
Warren DeLaSalle or Chelsea vs. Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard or Ann Arbor Greenhills
Dexter or Tecumseh vs. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep or Grosse Ile
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:
Baseball
Millington vs. Montrose - Game One - http://www.mhsaa.tv/montrose/events/35130
Millington vs. Montrose - Game Two - http://www.mhsaa.tv/montrose/events/35129
Bloomingdale vs. Watervliet - http://www.mhsaa.tv/watervliet/events/35213
Girls Soccer
Sparta at Greenville - http://www.mhsaa.tv/greenville/events/35333
Sparta at Greenville – JV - http://www.mhsaa.tv/greenville/events/35332
Millington vs. North Branch - http://www.mhsaa.tv/northbranch/events/35084
Portage Northern vs. East Lansing - http://www.mhsaa.tv/eastlansing/events/35089
Through Sunday (May 20), the Student Broadcast Program had posted 2,347 events of all types of athletic and non-athletic events occurring between the schools involved in the program. There were 59 productions last week – seven of them athletic events; the remainder programs ranging from commencement and awards ceremonies, to parent presentations, to daily announcements and news; to concerts, and school board meetings. 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 1.65 million pageviews during the 2011-12 school year as of May 20, 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 2,102,481. 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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