Saturday’s football season opener between the California Golden Bear and the Washington Washington Hucks has been canceled after a Calo player tested positive for coronavirus, Pack-12 announced Thursday.
“Pac-12 has approved Cal Cal’s request to cancel Washington in the Cal Cal football game on November 7,” Pac-12 said in a statement. “The decision was made under the Pack-12’s policy of canceling the football game because Kell did not have the minimum number of scholarship players available for the game as a result of the positive football student-athlete COVID-19 case and as a result additional football students were excluded. “Cathlets under contact tracing protocol.”
Kelly reported the case after returning positive after daily antigen testing and was later confirmed by PCR testing.
As a result, some football students-athletes are different due to contact tracing, a statement said yesterday.
The school did not announce how many players were in quarantine as a result of contact tracing and said the player who tested positive is asymptomatic.
“It’s very disappointing that we won’t be playing the 2020 season against Washington this Saturday night,” coach Justin Wilcox said in a statement. “My heart goes out first and foremost to all our players who have been going through a lot since the epidemic started and worked hard to prepare themselves to play in difficult circumstances.
As per the Pack-12 policy, the game will be declared a contest.
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