Lower Cape May forfeits football game

Posted by Brian Cunniff NJ Shore Sports at 9/22/2009 2:09 PM
Categories: football

The Lower Cape May Regional High School football team has forfeited its football game at St. Augustine Prep scheduled for Friday night. LCMR athletic director Mark Schiffbauer confirmed the decision to us Tuesday afternoon, citing low numbers and injuries.

“We are not playing that game,” Schiffbauer said. "I went into a meeting in a classroom with the kids (on Monday) and there were only 18 kids in there and two of them are hurt. When you have a team of 16 10th-, 11th- and 12th-graders, obviously there’s a numbers issue. We had eight (reserve) players on the sideline Friday night (against Holy Spirit) and three of them were freshmen, which basically gave us five players to put in the game. Had we gotten any more injured (this) Friday night we may not be able to finish the season.”

Lower Cape May lost its season opener to Holy Spirit last weekend, 56-6.

Schiffbauer said he has informed the Cape-Atlantic League, through league president Don Robbins of Vineland, and athletic officials at St. Augustine Prep of Lower's decision not to play the game.

Schiffbauer said Lower has full intentions of playing the rest of the games on its 2009 schedule, beginning with a home game against Bridgeton on Oct. 2. Schiffbauer said a handful of injured players are expectedeto receive medical clearance to play for next week's game.


You can read more about this story in this week's editions of the Wildwood Leader and the Gazettes.

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