{"id":8143,"date":"2025-09-17T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8143"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:05:33","slug":"sherrard-forfeits-games-with-princeton-citing-illness-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/?p=8143","title":{"rendered":"Sherrard forfeits games with Princeton citing illness – Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"


Princeton quarterback Gavin Lanham tries to stay ahead of a crowd of Rockridge defenders earlier this season. <\/span>(Mike Vaughn)
The Princeton Tigers<\/a> will have an unexpected Friday night off.
Princeton athletic director Jeff Ohlson said he has been informed by Sherrard High School that it must forfeit Friday\u2019s scheduled Three Rivers East opener at Sherrard due to an outbreak of illness.
Monday\u2019s frosh\/soph game will also be forfeited, Ohlson said.
Princeton has released the following statement:
\u201cSherrard has forfeited the varsity and sophomore games on Friday, Sept. 12, and Monday, Sept. 15, due to an outbreak of illness among players on their team. We are disappointed to lose the games, but do appreciate [Sherrard] for thinking of the health and well-being of our athletes.\u201d
With the forfeit, Princeton picks up its first win of the season to stand at 1-2. They will host longtime rival Kewanee next week, Friday, Sept. 19.
Sherrard falls to 0-3.
Princeton coach Ryan Pearson was disappointed about the news.
\u201cI feel bad for our kids. They had a great week of practice and now don\u2019t get to play,\u201d he said. \u201cIt just stinks. As a coach you hate to lose a game like that because it does make you rusty the following week.
\u201cWe\u2019re just going to have to practice like normal, but you you lose that valuable game experience with a very young team. You lose that coaching time because you don\u2019t have film to evaluate to see if you\u2019ve corrected some of the mistakes from the previous two weeks that we made.
\u201cBottom line, I just feel bad for our kids, especially our seniors because that\u2019s a game that they don\u2019t get to play in their final year as a Tiger.\u201d
Pearson said he will give the team the day off for a night of team-bonding. He and his staff may go to the Monmouth-Roseville at Kewanee game to scout their next two opponents.
This is the second time in 20 years that Princeton will have Week 3 off. In 2005, Chicago Collins elected not to make the trip to Princeton and the Tigers could not find a replacement. They did not receive a forfeit, however, because there was no signed contract. Princeton had played at Chicago Collins the year before and it was planned for Collins to make the trip south in 2005.
Kevin has been sports editor of the BCR since 1986 and is Sports Editor of Putnam County Record. Was previously sports editor of the St. Louis Daily News and a regular contributor for the St. Louis Cardinals Magazine. He is a member of the IBCA and Illinois Valley Hall of Fames. He is one of 4 sportswriters from his tiny hometown Atlanta, IL<\/p>\n

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Princeton quarterback Gavin Lanham tries to stay ahead of a crowd of Rockridge defenders earlier this season. (Mike Vaughn)The Princeton Tigers will have an unexpected Friday night off.Princeton athletic director Jeff Ohlson said he has been informed by Sherrard High School that it must forfeit Friday\u2019s scheduled Three Rivers East opener at Sherrard due to an outbreak of illness.Monday\u2019s frosh\/soph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princetonillinois.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}