Devils entering uncertain season with two-week COVID-19 delay

By Clay Counts
Special to The Courier

claycounts21@yahoo.com

LIBERTY — The offseason has been a long and stressful one for high school football coaches, players and fans around the state and nation, but the long wait is finally coming to a close for most South Carolina teams, with season openers set for this Friday night.

The Liberty Red Devils, however, will have to wait at least a couple more weeks after some members of the team tested positive for COVID-19 recently.

School District of Pickens County spokesman John Eby announced last Friday that all football activities at LHS had been suspended for two weeks due to the positive cases on the team. Eby said all close contacts of the positive cases had been notified, and games are being rescheduled as necessary in accordance with the South Carolina High School League.

Liberty is entering the pandemic-shortened 2020 season coming off a 3-8 finish a year ago, although the Red

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