Contact: John Johnson
517.332.5046 or [email protected]

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Oct. 1 - MHSAA Football Friday Overtime, in its second season on FOX Sports Detroit, expands to a full hour beginning this Friday (Oct. 4), and will begin a half-hour earlier at 11:30 p.m.

Mickey York and Rob Rubick host this weekly highlights show, with highlights and scores from across the state. An encore presentation takes place Saturday’s at 10:30 a.m. Here’s where the FFOT cameras are scheduled to be this week:

Mayville at Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest
Detroit King at Detroit Denby
Plymouth at Canton
Lansing Sexton at East Lansing
Grand Ledge at Lansing Everett
Detroit Renaissance at Detroit Northwestern
Grosse Pointe South at Grosse Pointe North
Brighton at Howell
Grand Blanc at Hartland
Madison Heights Lamphere at St. Clair Shores South Lake

PLUS - Three games from schools involved in the MHSAA Student Broadcasting Program:

L'Anse at Calumet
Flint Southwestern at Davison
Manton at Lincoln Alcona

New Weekly Content on MHSAA.tv

There's always fresh content to watch each week on the home page of the MHSAA.tv website. Two games from the School Broadcasting Program are being featured each week, along with a package of highlights from the previous week, and a new MHSAA Classic game from year’s past is placed center stage for fans to relive again.

This week's Best Of series games are:
- Football - Grand Rapids Northview at Greenville- Produced by Greenville High School
- Boys Soccer -Grand Ledge at East Lansing- Produced by East Lansing High School

This week's MHSAA.TV Highlights features clips of theWatervliet-Marcellus, Grand Rapids Northview-GreenvilleandOscoda-Lincoln Alconafootball games; and boys soccer matches betweenGrand Ledge-East LansingandComstock-Belding.

This week's MHSAA Classic is the 1995 Class A Football Final between Lapeer West and South Lyon, which was won by Lapeer West in double overtime, 24-21.

School Broadcast Program on MHSAA.tv

Here’s the schedule of schools planning to cover varsity athletic events, which will be available at MHSAA.tv shortly after each game’s conclusion (As of Oct. 1):

St. Johns at Mason – Girls Swimming - Tuesday
Alanson at Ellsworth – Girls Volleyball - Thursday
Atlanta at Hillman – Football – Friday
L’Anse at Calumet – Football – Friday
Rudyard at Rogers City – Football –Friday
Sault Ste. Marie at Cheboygan – Football – Friday
Traverse City West at Petoskey – Football – Friday
Mio at AuGres-Sims – Football – Friday
Pellston at Indian River Inland Lakes – Football –Friday
Manton at Lincoln Alcona – Football –Friday
Johannesburg-Lewiston at Onaway – Football – Friday
Parma Western at Mason - Football – Friday

Through last Saturday (Sept. 22), the Student Broadcast Program had posted 237 events of all types of athletic and non-athletic events occurring between the schools involved in the program since the beginning o f the school year. There were 71 productions last week – 21 of them athletic events; the remainder programs ranging from daily announcements and news; to village meetings. Last year’s student-produced events totaled 2,474 over the entire school year.

Nearly 60 schools are involved in the School Broadcasting Program. Schools interested in becoming a part of the program should contact John Johnson at the MHSAA Office.

PlayOn! Sports coverage on Xfinity

PlayOn! Sports, an MHSAA Network television partner, will be in Grosse Pointe on Friday (Oct. 5) for an Macomb Area Conference rivalry game game between North and South High Schools. It’s the seventh of 13 games that will be featured each week by Xfinity on various platforms.

There is a schedule change for this week’s Tuesday airing. The North-South game will first air on Comcast Channel 900 on the following Tuesday at 10 p.m., following the University of Windsor-University of Michigan ice hockey game. Additional airings will take place on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.; Saturday at 3 p.m.; and Sunday at 6 p.m. The games will be online for Xfinity subscribers at Xfinity.com/HighSchoolSports, and highlights will also be available on the Xfinity on Demand service. Here’s the upcoming football schedule:

Week 8 - Riverview at Grosse Ile, Oct. 12
Week 9 - Lowell at Grand Rapids Christian, Oct. 19

In addition, one game each week during the first four rounds of the MHSAA Football Playoffs will also be presented; and three additional fall events will also be featured.

MHSAA Perspective

Now in its eighth season is the radio commentary MHSAA Perspective, which will air on over 60 radio stations across the state, generally during the local broadcasts of high school games. The program runs for 30 weeks through the end of the winter sports season. MHSAA Perspective can also be accessed from the home page of the MHSAA Website.

This week’s show: The Replacements - Listen - Download - This week's edition of Perspective describes how the students behaved badly when the substitute teachers came in, and how it set a bad example for everyone else.

Stations carrying MHSAA Perspective are:

Adrian - WABJ-AM (1490) – Halftime of game broadcasts, Fridays at 7:45 a.m.
Alma - WQBX-FM (104.9) - Halftime of game broadcasts
Alpena - WATZ-AM (1450) – Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 8 a.m.; Halftime of basketball game broadcasts
Alpena – WKJZ-FM (94.9) - Halftime of game broadcasts
Bay City – Great Lakes Sports Network – GreatLakesSportsNetwork.com – Halftime of game broadcasts
Cadillac - WATT-AM (1240) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Cadillac - WKAD-FM (93.7) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Coldwater – WTVB-AM (1590) – Halftime of game broadcasts; Saturday morning weeks of no games
Dearborn — Press & Guide - MIPrepZone.com/Dearborn - Halftime of game broadcasts
Deckerville - ThumbTailgater.com - Halftime of game broadcasts
East Lansing - WVFN-AM (730) – Between football game broadcasts and scoreboard show
Escanaba – WCHT-AM (600) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Escanaba – WDBC-AM (680) – Halftime of Escanaba High School games
Escanaba – WYKX-FM (104.7) – Halftime of Escanaba High School games
Escanaba – WUPF-FM (107.3)
Ferrysburg – WMPA-FM (93.1) - 6:40 p.m. on Football Fridays; approximately 5:50 and 7 p.m. prior to basketball games
Gaylord - WMJZ-FM (101.5)
Grand Haven – WGHN-FM (92.1) - 6:40 p.m. on Football Fridays; approximately 5:50 and 7 p.m. prior to basketball games
Grand Haven – WGHN-AM (1370) - 6:40 p.m. on Football Fridays; approximately 5:50 and 7 p.m. prior to basketball games
Grand Rapids - WBBL-FM (107.3) – Between games broadcast and scoreboard show
Grand Rapids - WTKG-AM (1230) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Grand Rapids – MichiganSportsRadio.com – Halftime of game broadcasts
Grayling - WGRY-FM (100.3)
Hancock – WMPL-AM (920) – Pregame of football, halftime of basketball, first intermission of hockey game broadcasts
Hancock – WKMJ-FM (93.5) – Pregame of football, halftime of basketball, first intermission of hockey game broadcasts
Houghton - WHKB-FM (102.3) - Halftime of game broadcasts
Holland - WHTC-AM (1450) - Halftime of game broadcasts
Holland - WYVN-FM (92.7) - Halftime of game broadcasts
Houghton - WHKB FM (102.3) - Halftime of game broadcasts
Houghton – WCCY-AM (1400)- Halftime of game broadcasts
Iron Mountain – WZNL-FM (94.3) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Ironwood -- WJMS-AM (590) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Ishpeming – WUPG-FM (96.7)
Jackson - WIBM AM (1450) - 8:35 a.m. Saturday mornings; Halftime of game broadcasts
Jackson - WKHM AM (970) - 8:35 a.m. Saturday mornings; Halftime of game broadcasts
Kalamazoo – WQLR-AM (1660) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Manistique - WPIQ-FM (92.7) – 6 p.m. on game nights
Manistique - WTIQ-AM (1490) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Marquette - WUPT-FM (100.3)
Marquette – WNGE-FM (99.5) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Midland – WMPX-AM (1490) - Halftime of game broadcasts
Mt. Clemens — Macomb Daily- MIPrepZone.com/Macomb - Halftime of game broadcasts
Mt. Pleasant – WCZY-FM (104.3) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Mt. Pleasant – WMMI-AM (830) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Munising – WRUP-FM (98.3) - Pregame of game broadcasts
Munising – WQXO-AM (1400) - Pregame of game broadcasts
Muskegon - WLCS-FM (98.3) - Pregame of game broadcasts
Muskegon - WVIB-FM (100.1) - Pregame of game broadcasts
Negaunee - WKQS-FM (101.9) – Pregame of game broadcasts
Newberry - WMJT-FM (96.7)
Newberry – WNBY-AM (1450) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Pinconning - WLUN-FM (100.9) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Pontiac - The Oakland Press - MIPrepZone.com/Oakland – Halftime of game broadcasts
Roscommon – WQON-FM (101.1)
Sault Ste. Marie – WMKD-FM – (105.5) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Sault Ste Marie – WSOO-AM (1230) – Saturdays at 11:30 a.m.
South Haven – WCSY-FM (103.7) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Southgate — The News-Herald - MIPrepZone.com/Downriver - Halftime of game broadcasts
St. Joseph – WSJM-AM (1400) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Sturgis - WBET-AM (1230) – Halftime of game broadcasts; during Sportstalk Saturday
Sturgis - WBET-FM (99.3) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Tawas City - WKJC-FM (104.7) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Tawas City – WQLB-FM (103.3) – Halftime of game broadcasts
Zeeland - WPNW-AM (1260) – Halftime of football, pregame of basketball game broadcasts, Saturdays at 7:30 a.m.

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