There is no question that we are living in times that can only be described as nothing less than utterly surreal, it's like The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits and Believe It Or Not all rolled into one. On Thursday afternoon we convened at McCaskey for the bus ride north into Lebanon County for the games at Cedar Crest. The JV game started in good order right on time at 6:00 and the first half proceeded without incident. At halftime my counterpart and I compared scorebooks, as I was walking towards the locker room the school's game manager came on the PA to announce that the evening's activities were over immediately due to health concerns. When I got to our locker room I told the coaches what had been announced, within fifteen minutes we were on the bus and headed for home. Freddy explained it to the players as it had been told to him: apparently a member of their junior varsity has been sick for several days, on this night he was not present. His parents called the school to tell them his condition had worsened so out of caution the game was stopped at halftime. For our side there is little to worry about since the young man was absent and there was no direct exposure, the concern is for the Cedar Crest players who have spent time with him recently. There was no immediate word on a makeup date, chances are it will be varsity-only since the JV had played a full half (and the JVs usually get the dirty end of it in situations like this anyway). With it all I was home by 7:45, about two hours before I figured to be under normal conditions. The boys are scheduled next for a non-league date at Central Dauphin East on Saturday the 23rd. Take care, thanks for reading.
