The Butler Eagle is planning expanded high school football coverage this season. More reporters, more photographers and more pages will be used to provide readers information and images from Friday night action.

Week Zero — the opening of the high school football season — arrives on Friday.

More intensive high school football coverage in the Butler Eagle is coming along with it.

Throughout the 2018 prep football season, the Eagle is expanding its coverage by staffing and photographing more games and dedicating more space in the newspaper to showcase those reports and pictures.

“Everyone has been excited about the start of the high school football season,” Eagle managing editor Robert Benson said. “We at the Eagle have been excited about bringing our expanded high school football coverage.

“This is a chance to give our readers a lot more coverage of their favorite local teams.”

The Eagle's expanded football coverage will include more sports pages in the Sunday edition, more impactful photos from numerous games and byline coverage from as many as eight games each Friday night.

“As Butler County's only daily newspaper, local sports is our bread and butter,” Benson said. “This year, we offer our readers a feast.”

A number of county teams begin the regular season Friday. Among those games are Butler at North Hills, Mars at West Mifflin, Knoch at Hampton, Brockway at Karns City and Albert Gallatin vs. Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic at Mars High School.

Each of those games will have a reporter from the Eagle providing coverage.

“I have my favorite high school team, everyone has his favorite high school team,” Benson said. “Let's get out there and cheer them on, then enjoy the Eagle's expanded coverage.”

The Butler Eagle sports staff will also debut its weekly high school football discussion and analysis show on the

Eagle sports Facebook page this week.