COVID derails starts of football seasons for these Rock Hill, Lancaster County teams
Editor’s note: Chester and Lewisville high schools have found opponents to play on Friday. That update has been reflected in the story.
The Lancaster High School football team won’t play for at least two weeks.
Several members of the Lancaster High School varsity football team have tested positive for COVID-19, the Lancaster County School District said in a statement to The Herald, and the whole team will be quarantined due to “not being able to contact trace during drills at practice.”
The Bruins were originally scheduled to play in a preseason jamboree featuring all four high schools in Lancaster County — Andrew Jackson, Indian Land, Buford and Lancaster — but they had to pull out of the event because of the coronavirus issue.
“The district continues to follow guidance from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) and S.C. DHEC (Department of Health and Environmental Control),” the statement read.
The South Carolina high school football season is set to begin on Friday. The Bruins were supposed to open their season against Crestwood before playing Fairfield Central the next weekend.
Lancaster isn’t the only school in the area with COVID issues: The football team at Legion Collegiate Academy, a public charter school in Rock Hill, is currently in quarantine, athletic director Strait Herron told The Herald. The Lancers’ season opener against Providence Day has been canceled, Herron said, and their debut in the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association will now be Thursday, Aug. 26, at Cannon School. (Legion was originally scheduled to play Cannon on Friday, Aug. 27.)
In other news: Lewisville was originally slated to play Laurence Manning Academy, but LMA delayed its school opening by a week, so now the Lions are hosting Columbia High.
Chester was originally slated Friday to play Union County, which has positive COVID-19 cases within its program, per reporting by GoUpstate.com’s Joe Dandron. Chester now will play Charlotte Providence at 7 p.m. on Friday.
Aug. 20 high school football schedule (for now) in York, Chester and Lancaster counties
All kickoff times are at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Greenville at Rock Hill
Nation Ford at Indian Land
Fort Mill at Catawba Ridge
Clover at Dorman
Mauldin at York
Great Falls at Whitmire
Chester at Charlotte Providence (7 p.m.)
Columbia at Lewisville
South Pointe at Northwestern (Saturday, Aug. 21; 7 p.m.)
This story was originally published August 16, 2021 at 3:18 PM.
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