Christian County High School is delaying the start of the boys basketball season after a player tested positive for COVID-19, district officials announced Saturday.
In addition to the positive case, 11 players will be in quarantine until Jan. 15, under the Safe at School close contact rules, district spokesman John Rittenhouse said in a news release.
Games with South Warren High School on Jan. 8 and Hopkinsville High School on Jan. 12 are postponed. Games with Louisville Male on Jan. 9 and the Evansville-Harrison Shootout on Jan. 15 and 16 are canceled.
Rittenhouse said parents of the players affected by the quarantine have been notified.
Students are scheduled to return to Christian County Public Schools on Jan. 6.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
