The Pepperell High Dragon football team has garnered state-wide attention with its No. 3 ranking in Class AA in Georgia and this week the Coosa High Eagles join them in the spotlight.  This week’s 7-AA game between the Dragons and the Eagles at Coosa High School will be the featured game of the week for Georgia Public Broadcasting.  The 7-AA subregion matchup will be streamed live over the Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) website at www.gpb.org/football .  Local business Logical System, Inc. is helping to make the GPB broadcast possible by running an Ethernet cable to the Coosa High School Press Box to accommodate the signal for sending the game to the website.  The game will also be aired locally on the radio on FM 95.3 WSRM over the Pepperell Dragon Radio Network sponsored by the Pepperell Dragon Club.

Students will also get involved and receive professional experience in the broadcasting field as a part of the athletic event.  Students in the Coosa High Technology Students Association (TSA) will provide production assistance to the GPB crew during the football game.  The Coosa group has worked with GPB for the past 11 years to help broadcast the Georgia football playoffs from the Georgia Dome.  On the radio side, Pepperell’s Luke Brannon, a student in the Radio and Television Production class at Pepperell has been working with the radio broadcast for Pepperell games this year.  Luke produces radio reports about programs at PHS that are played during the half-time show of each PHS football broadcast.

The Pepperell Dragons will also be a featured team on the Georgia Public Broadcasting show Prep Sports + this week.  The Prep Sports + segments will air during the shows on GPB on Thursday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, October 25 at 11:00 a.m.; and Sunday, October 26 at 12:30 p.m.

Prep Sports + is Georgia Public Broadcasting's award-winning weekly magazine TV series.  The show brings you all the latest news on the high school sports scene.  Prep Sports + recognizes the accomplishments of high school students, athletes, coaches and teachers. As the longest-running high school sports and academics program in Georgia, has visited over 320 schools and produced over 1,400 special athletic and academic feature stories since its debut.

Coosa High’s Angela Little was the Academic Athlete of the Week on Prep Sports + the first week of October.