PORT TOWNSEND — A football player from Life Christian Academy High School in Tacoma has been released from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after suffering a neck injury in Friday night’s game against Chimacum High School at Memorial Field.
Daniel Thatcher, a sophomore defensive lineman, was injured when he collided head-on with a Chimacum player who was blocking for a running back shortly before halftime, said Chimacum coach Shawn Meacham.
Thatcher, who Meachman said suffered a muscle tear in his neck from the collision, was airlifted to Harborview from Jefferson Healthcare hospital in Port Townsend at about 9 p.m.
The sophomore was conscious and mobile after the collision, but told medics that he felt pain from his neck down to his back, Meachman said.
Chimacum won the homecoming game 32-20.
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