The countdown to football season continued on Tuesday with the annual Rome Corky Kell + Dave Hunter Classic Luncheon at the Rome Civic Center. All six teams participating in Friday’s triple-header were represented at the luncheon with head coaches, administrators and select players from each school. The first Friday matchup between Mt. Pisgah and Fellowship Christian will be broadcasted from Fellowship Christian before the action moves to Rome with Creekside and Kennesaw Mountain at 5:30 p.m. and Cass versus Rome at 8:30 p.m in the nightcap.
SportsTurf set up the ‘green carpet’ for each team to take a photo and provided attendees with wireless Bluetooth speakers. On3’s Rusty Mansell, who will be in the booth as part of the Corky Kell + Dave Hunter broadcast lineup–emceed the event with Score Atlanta President I.J. Rosenberg, and interviewed each coach about their team.
Cass head coach Steve Gates—who played in the Corky Kell Classic in the 1990’s with event founder and then McEachern head coach Jimmy Dorsey arrived with five players and talked about how special it is to have both played and coached in the historic event. Additionally, Rome’s John Reid was joined by the Wolves’ four-year starting quarterback Reese Fountain.
Last year, the Cory Kell Classic had more than 44,000 fans in attendance across the four-day 11-game lineup, while more than 210,000 homes (525,000 viewers) tuned in to the live broadcast. The Atlanta News First app received over 36,600 impressions, while the Score Atlanta website and scoring app received a tremendous 587,235 impressions during the week of Corky Kell. Additionally, 7,379 fans tuned into the NFHS Network to watch the 11 games. Viewers were not just treated to watching some of the state’s best high school football players, but also got to witness a state-of-the-art broadcast that included a crew of 24 professionals and featured a live score scroller that showed viewers live scores from games around the state, provided by the Score Atlanta team and their online scoreboard and app. Halftime and postgame shows were filled with stories from school representatives and sponsor representatives, along with scores and playoff brackets. Many sponsors showed out during the four-day event with booth displays and representatives promoting their companies to each game’s attendees.
Corky Kell + Dave Hunter Classic
August 16 at Kell High School
4:30 p.m. Johns Creek vs. North Atlanta
8 p.m. Parkview vs. Kell
August 17 at West Forsyth High School
4:30 p.m. Archer vs. North Forsyth
8 p.m. Cherokee Bluff vs. West Forsyth
August 18 at Fellowship Christian High School
2:30 p.m. Mt. Pisgah vs. Fellowship Christian
August 18 at Rome’s Barron Stadium
5:30 p.m. Creekside vs. Kennesaw Mountain
8:30 p.m. Cass vs. Rome
August 19 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium
10 a.m. Norcross vs. Marietta
1 p.m. Brookwood vs. McEachern
4 p.m. Mill Creek vs. North Gwinnett
7 p.m. Grayson vs. Walton
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