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EAST LANSING, Mich.  – June 10 –  The MHSAA.tv Website, which has experienced nearly 1.1 million pageviews during the 2009-10 school year, is now beginning to feature the running finals from last Saturday’s (June 5) MHSAA Lower Peninsula Track & Field Finals in Grand Rapids available for on-demand viewing.

The races were shot by the MHSAA Network, and will be included on programs which will air on Comcast Channel 900 on beginning July 7.  A complete schedule of airtimes will be available soon on the MHSAA.tv Website.

As of Friday (June 10) morning, all of the races in Division 1, 2 and 3 were available.  Division 4 and the races from the Upper Peninsula Finals in Kingsford will be available soon.  Each video has the boys and the girls race in an event in the Lower Peninsula coverage; while the Upper Peninsula videos will have all three Divisions in a gender, with separate videos for each gender.

For direct access to the track videos, click on either 2010 MHSAA LP Track Finals or 2010 UP Track Finals.

MHSAA.tv will have a busy two weekends to close out the school year.  Saturday’s (June 12) Girls Lacrosse Finals at Troy Athens will be streamed live, with the Division 1 game between Brighton and Rockford at 2 p.m.; followed by the Flint Powers Catholic-Okemos rematch in Division 2 at 4:30 p.m.  The Boys Lacrosse Finals at Birmingham Seaholm will be posted to the site by Saturday evening for on-demand viewing.  Birmingham Brother Rice faces Detroit Catholic Central in the Division 1 finale at 4:30 p.m.; and Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central takes on Pontiac Notre Dame Prep for top honors in Division 2 at 2 p.m.  All of Saturday’s lacrosse games will have their audio streamed live at MHSAANetwork.com.

Next Saturday (June 19), video and audio all of the final games in the MHSAA Baseball and Softball Tournaments will be streamed live from Battle Creek’s Bailey Park.  The baseball action begins at 9:30 a.m. in Division 2, followed by Division 3 at 12:30 p.m., Division 4 at 3:30 p.m., and Division 1 at 6:30 p.m.   Softball coverage begins at 10 a.m. with Division 1, followed at 12:30 p.m. by Division 4, Division 3 at 3 p.m., and Division 2 at 5:30 p.m.  Audio of all of the Girls Soccer Finals that day will be streamed live from Michigan State University and Williamston High School, and video of the games from Williamston will also be streamed live.  The games from MSU will be uploaded by the following day.  Game times for Girls Soccer are Noon and 3 p.m. at both sites, with the Divisions of play to be determined after the Semifinals on Wednesday (June 16).

The MHSAA is a private, not-for-profit corporation of voluntary membership by over 1,600 public and private senior high schools and junior high/middle schools which exists to develop common rules for athletic eligibility and competition.  No government funds or tax dollars support the MHSAA, which was the first such association nationally to not accept membership dues or tournament entry fees from schools.  Member schools which enforce these rules are permitted to participate in MHSAA tournaments, which attract approximately 1.6 million spectators each year.

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