((HT: Cincinnati Enquirer/Ernst))
Bishop Brossart school officials on Wednesday cancelled Friday’s downstate football game at Elizabethtown after a Brossart player came down with a confirmed case of the H1N1 flu. Other players on the team, Brossart principal Richard Stewart said, have similar symptoms.
“Hopefully we’re pretty lucky and it was pretty confined,” Stewart said. “Right now, football’s a secondary concern.”
The Alexandria community was notified of the potential outbreak Wednesday afternoon, hours after Brossart officials called Elizabethtown to notify its school officials of the situation. Both sides agreed to cancel the game.
“One of my main concerns is that it was an away game,” Stewart said. “You don’t want to put a bunch of sick kids on a bus and send them all the way down and all the way back.
Brossart, a school of just 374 students, is in Class 1A – Kentucky’s smallest football classification. The Mustangs, in just their third year of varsity football, started the season 3-0 after losing the first 20 games in program history.
“We hate to do it, especially with the team on a roll,” Stewart said. “But the bottom line is we’re worried about kids’ health and safety.”
Brossart’s football team has just 34 players on its roster – freshmen through seniors. School officials said they hope the illness won’t further affect the schedule, but they can’t rule it out.
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