Due to sickness, illness, the flu, whatever you want to call it, Clinton Prairie has cancelled school Friday, October 16. Unfortunately for the Clinton Prairie athletes, that means all athletic events on Friday have been cancelled too. Even though the Gopher volleyball team is missing just one player, they had to cancel their match Thursday. The football team will miss their last game of the regular season against a number one or two ranked (depending on which poll you look at) Central Catholic team that was scheduled for Friday.

You can look at this cancelled football game from two angles: a negative one or a positive one. The negative side: for senior players on both the Clinton Prairie and Central Catholic squads, they are missing their last regular season football game EVER in high school. Kind of a bummer. The positive side: (Knight’s head coach Kevin O’Shea pointed this out) it gives both teams a chance to heal up. At this point in the season, many players are banged up and hurt to some extent. A Friday night off will give these players some extra time to regroup and heal before heading into the most important part of the season, post-season.

Now they just have to stay away from the sick kids at school.