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Bulldogs Win! Stow Homecoming Game Featured on Billboards

We won! ... at least the Billboard Game of the Week Challenge until Friday night. The Homecoming game against Hudson High School will be featured on six digital billboards in Summit County.

The other teams didn't even have a chance against the Bulldogs! 

The versus Hudson High School Homecoming game received 130 more votes than the three other matchups on a Billboard Game of the Week Facebook poll

Friday's matchup will now be featured on six digital billboards in Summit County, beginning today. 

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The second place game on the poll was Walsh versus Hoban, which received only 36 votes. Stow received a total of 165 votes after

This is the to be featured as the Akron General Sports Medicine Billboard Game of the Week.

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There are six digital billboards that the game will be advertised on:

  • I-277 west of S.R. 93 in Manchester
  • Two billboards I-77 north of S.R. 162 on Copley Road (one facing south and one facing north)
  • Two billboards on S.R. 8 north of I-76 (one facing north and one facing south)
  • I-76 west of S.R. 91 on Canton Road

Clear Channel Outdoor, which manages the billboards and the program, estimates that about 1.5 million see the digital billboards during commutes. 

The billboard design will run today, tomorrow and (note time change, it was previously 7 p.m.)

After the game, the billboard will announce the winning team as well as some highlights and headlines from the game, said Clear Channel Outdoor's Akron/Canton Area Manager Megan Waite.

Possible things posted on the billboard will be "leading scorers, leading rushers, props to the cheerleaders or marching bands ... just some statements to actually highlight the game and some of the athletes and other important students involved in the excitement," she said.

Going to the game or any Homecoming events Friday? Share photos with Stow Patch by emailing Local Editor Amanda Harnocz at amanda.harnocz@patch.com.

Share photos and game updates on our Facebook page and on Twitter @StowPatch too! 


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