Mars Hill Forfeits After Covid Outbreak

WAAY 31's Breken Terry spoke with the head coach who said forfeiting the game was a tough decision, but the right one.

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Happening now - mars hiil bible school is going virutal for a week after a coroanvirus outbreak!

Students will be online-only until monday - and all extra- curricular activities are on hold.

That includes this friday's football game!

Waay 31's breken terry spoke with the head coach who said forfeiting the game was a tough decision, but the right one.

Look live: mars hill football is ranked number one in two a - and took home the state championship in 2018.

But with several football players in quarantine - and at least one middle school football player testing postive - the coach here said safety comes before any titles.

Darrell higgins head football coach, mars hill bible school new at 5/ mars hill forefit's football game goes remote due to covid/florence, lauderdale county <higgins- were hoping to get all the cases cleared up and we can get back to normal activies next week.

Mars hill head football coach darrell higgins said stopping all activities for the rest of week is their best shot at containing the virus.

Higgins- it was a hard decision but it's something the school was really wanting to help slow down this corona outbreak were having and we followed the lead of the school.

Mars hill was scheduled to play american christian.

Higgins said it's something he and his players have been looking forward to - but they can't risk exposing that team and fans to covid-19.

Higgins- they also have a really good team and a chance to make a run in the play offs and i talked with coach smelly and we were both looking forward to playing the game because it would help both of us as we get ready for the play offs to play good competition.

Higgins said his players were disappointed - but they know they need to be healthy in order to get back on the field.

Higgins- it's something we will work through.

Our guys have got to come back and make sure they are ready to go and we are excited about the play look live tag: on monday - students will be back in class, and the football team will return to the field.

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Mars hill's first opponent in the playoffs will be lamar county.

The last games of the regular season are this