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Michigan high school cancels game over available player shortage due to injuries
By Paul Harvey
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One high school in Michigan had to make the unfortunate call to cancel an upcoming game due to injuries.
According to Josh Van Dyke with MLive.com, Holton High School is canceling its Week 8 game against North Muskegon. The reasoning for the cancellation is related to the number of available players for Holton this week, particularly related to injuries.
Holton head coach Tommy Moore said the team is currently down its first- and second-string quarterbacks and has just two available upperclassmen for the week.
“We were already low number-wise, and then we have a game Friday and get banged up pretty bad in that one,” Holton head coach Tommy Moore told MLive. “We lost our second-string quarterback to a concussion and our original starting quarterback isn’t even back yet either. We also lost some other kids to injuries, so we are down to two available upperclassmen on our roster right now. We have 13 total kids who could potentially play right now and putting that many underclassmen up against teams who are going to be primarily 17 and 18-year-old kids wouldn’t be safe for them.”
As of now, Holton is not making a call on the Week 9 game on the schedule. Moore says that the game will depend on the recovery process for key players, but the team is “hoping” to field a healthy team against Hesperia.
Paul is a lifelong fan and student of all things college football. He has been covering college football since 2017 and the B1G since 2018.