Contact:  John Johnson
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EAST LANSING, Mich. – March 18 – Twelve basketball games this week will wrap up winter broadcast coverage of MHSAA Tournaments for the Winter sports season.

The MHSAA Boys Basketball Finals will take place Thursday through Saturday (March 20-22) at the Breslin Student Events Center in East Lansing, and coverage will take place on several different platforms.

Carrying all the games will be the MHSAA Championship Radio Network, which will stream audio of each contest at MHSAANetwork.com.  An over-the air network of over 30 stations across the state will broadcast the games, and WVFN, East Lansing, will serve as the flagship station and also air the Semifinals.

Here is a complete list of outlets carrying the Boys Basketball Finals.  Consult local listings for the games to be broadcast in these markets: 

Adrian – WABJ; Alma – WQBX-FM; Alpena – WATZ; Alpena – WHSB; Battle Creek – WBCK; Cadillac – WATT; Coldwater – WTVB; East Lansing – WVFN (Flagship-Carrying Semifinals & Finals); Escanaba – WCHT; Escanaba – WDBC; Gaylord – WMJZ; Grand Haven – WGHN; Grand Rapids – WMAX; Holland – WHTC; Houghton – WHKB; Ironwood – WJMS; Jackson – WKHM; Kalamazoo – WQLR; Ludington – WKLA; Ludington – WLDN-FM; Manistique – WTIQ; Midland – WLUN; Midland – WMPX; Mt. Pleasant – WCZY; Muskegon – WLCS; Negaunee – WKQS; Newberry – WMJT; Petoskey – WMBN; Sault Ste. Marie – WSOO; St. Joseph – WSJM; Sturgis – WBET; Tawas City – WQLB; Zeeland – WPNW; ThumbTailgater.com; and SWMSports.net.

Additionally, Saturday’s Finals will also have live streaming audio at MHSAANetwork.com from student broadcasters who took top honors in the 2013-14 Michigan Student Broadcast Awards Sports Play-By-Play category sponsored by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Foundation. 

Joe Zylka, Logan Lazorka and Christian Alvarado from Canton Community Schools took the top two awards in the radio play-by-play category and will announce the Class D and A title tilts.  Riley O’Keefe, Lucas Henry and Kevin DeLaFuente, will represent Rockford High School in calling the Class C and B championship games.  The trio took the top two places in the play-by-play television category.

There will also be two student-produced public service announcements airing  this weekend.  A radio message on teamwork, produced by Adam Duxter, Alyce Krumm, Michael Adzima of Canton Community Schools; and a television message on officials recruitment by Christian Thwing of Davison High School will air in their respective mediums on Saturday.

All four of the championship games will be televised live by FOX Sports Detroit-PLUS.  There will be no live video stream of the games, but all games will be available for free on demand viewing shortly after their completion on MHSAA.tv.

The Semifinal games will be streamed live on a subscription basis on MHSAA.tv.  The Basketball coverage is part of six straight weekends of live MHSAA Championship coverage on MHSAA.tv and online viewers can catch both days of the Semis for one low cost of $14.95.  A Day Pass is available for $9.95.  All events will be available for free on-demand viewing by Wednesday the week following their initial live airing. 

Here is the complete live video streaming schedule for the Boys Basketball Semifinals this week on MHSAA.tv:

Thursday – March 13 – Class C
Pewamo-Westphalia v. Muskegon Heights PSA – 1 p.m.
Detroit Consortium  v.  Negaunee winner – 2:50 p.m.

Thursday – March 13 – Class D
Frankfort  v. Southfield Christian – 6 p.m.
Cedarville v. Adrian Lenawee Christian – 7:50 p.m.

Friday – March 14 – Class A
Mt. Pleasant  v.  Muskegon winner – 1 p.m.
Detroit U-D Jesuit  v. Bloomfield Hills – 2:50 p.m.

Friday – March 14 – Class B
Benton Harbor  v.  Cadillac – 6 p.m.
Detroit Douglass  v. Milan  – 7:50 p.m.

In addition, there will be free live video streams of all post-game press conferences; the post-game award ceremonies; the presentation of the Scholar-Athlete Award; the presentation of the Charles E. Forsythe Award; and the Three Point and Free Throw Shooter’s Challenges. 

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