Another football player sustains neck injury

The Tri-City area had its second scare in a varsity football game in less than a month Friday when Morgan City High School’s Scott Comeaux injured his neck during the game against Vandebilt Catholic.
Comeaux fractured the sixth vertebrae but is expected to make a full recovery, Morgan City High School coach Scott Tregle said.
Comeaux was injured with 11:50 remaining in the fourth quarter when he was tackled shortly after fielding a Vandebilt Catholic punt.
Tregle said Comeaux had movement in his extremities and wanted to get up and walk off the field but wasn’t allowed to by medical personnel because of the soreness in his neck.
The game was delayed more than 15 minutes and resumed after he was transported from the field by Acadian Ambulance.
Both teams as well as their cheerleaders gathered in the middle of the field in prayer during the injury timeout.
Tregle said Comeaux originally went to Teche Regional Medical Center and then was transported to Children’s Hospital in New Orleans. He was released from the hospital Sunday.
He will heal in a neck brace with no surgery required, Tregle said.
“I thought the (athletic) trainers did a good job of isolating him,” Tregle said of the two Nicholls State student athletic trainers and Vandebilt Catholic’s athletic trainer onsite. “When they found out it was the neck, they rolled him over real slow and they cut his helmet off. I thought they did a real good job of that.”
Comeaux is the second area athlete to fracture the sixth vertebrae in his neck as Charlie Solar suffered the same injury Oct. 2 while making a tackle on a kickoff return against Centerville, Central Catholic coach Tommy Minton said at the time.
He, too, also is expected to make a full recovery.