Covid has reared its ugly head once again knocking out a chance for the Washington Hatchet Football team to compete in the IHSAA 3A Football sectional championship at Sullivan this Friday night for the first time since 2009. Washington High School Principal Steve Petersen sent a press release yesterday alerting the community that the Hatchets will not be participating Friday due to contact tracing for Covid 19. WHS Athletic Director Larry Cochren says the game will end in a no-contest and Sullivan will be declared sectional champions moving on in the tournament. The Hatchets end a giant turn-around season as sectional runners up and a final record of 5 and 6. Once again, Friday night’s Hatchet Football game at Sullivan has now been cancelled. Cochren did tell us at this point no other sports have been affected and the first Lady Hatchet Basketball game of the season is still on for Saturday night at North Knox.
The Barr Reeve Vikings and Loogootee Lions continue practice this week for the Volleyball State Finals. Loogootee will play Pioneer at 10:30am, and Barr Reeve will face Wapahani for the 2A championship at Ball State. We will have live coverage on Saturday beginning at 10:15am Saturday morning on WAMW.
Loogootee has announced some schedule changes for the girls basketball season due to the deep post season Volleyball run. The Eastern Greene game scheduled for November 10th has now been moved to the 17th, the Forest Park game on November 14th will now be played on December 5th, and the Mitchell game November 17th has been cancelled with no make up date. Loogootee did add Brownstown to their girls basketball schedule for a match up on November 20th.
Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford missed practice Wednesday and has been placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list, the team announced. Stafford is considered a “high-risk, close contact” of a non-team member who tested positive for COVID-19. Stafford’s last contact with the individual was Monday, which means he would be eligible to come off the reserve/COVID-19 list Sunday and play against the Minnesota Vikings, pending five straight days of negative tests for him.
Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky suffered a right shoulder injury on the lone snap he played in Sunday’s 26-23 overtime loss to the New Orleans Saints. Coach Matt Nagy confirmed Wednesday that Trubisky injured his throwing shoulder on a designed quarterback keeper that gained 3 yards in the first quarter. The play marked Trubisky’s first regular-season snap since Nagy benched the former second overall pick in favor of Nick Foles in Week 3. Trubisky did not see the field again following the one rushing attempt.
Free-agent right-hander Trevor Bauer has rejected the Cincinnati Reds‘ $18.9 million qualifying offer for the 2021 season. Bauer remains open to discussing a return to Cincinnati and all other interested teams thru Free Agency. The 29-year old Bauer went 5-4 with a National League-leading 1.73 ERA in 11 starts last season and is a finalist for the NL Cy Young Award. He was one of six players in Major League Baseball to receive the qualifying offer. His salary in 2020 was $17.5 million.
Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky suffered a right shoulder injury on the lone snap he played in Sunday’s 26-23 overtime loss to the New Orleans Saints. Coach Matt Nagy confirmed Wednesday that Trubisky injured his throwing shoulder on a designed quarterback keeper that gained 3 yards in the first quarter. The play marked Trubisky’s first regular-season snap since Nagy benched the former second overall pick in favor of Nick Foles in Week 3. Trubisky did not see the field again following the one rushing attempt.
Free-agent right-hander Trevor Bauer has rejected the Cincinnati Reds‘ $18.9 million qualifying offer for the 2021 season. Bauer remains open to discussing a return to Cincinnati and all other interested teams thru Free Agency. The 29-year old Bauer went 5-4 with a National League-leading 1.73 ERA in 11 starts last season and is a finalist for the NL Cy Young Award. He was one of six players in Major League Baseball to receive the qualifying offer. His salary in 2020 was $17.5 million.
