A helicopter waits to take a junior varsity player to the hospital during a pause in the Spring Hill v. Mountain Pine varsity game Friday night.

A call to Sheila Gadberry, the Mountain Pine School District's Public Relations coordinator yielded this information. The young Mountain Pine football player who was taken by helicopter to a hospital during the Spring Hill v. Mountain Pine Varsity game Friday night, she said, "has been released and is in his home recuperating."

Gadberry said she could not release the name of the injured athlete pending parents' permission.