West Virginia High School wins big the day after their start football player was killed running across the interstate

Playing a football game is not an easy task as it is, but imagine suiting up and playing 24 hours after learning your star football player was killed in a car accident?

Well, that is what happened at Cabell Midland High School in West Virginia.

Caige Ryder a seventeen year old star senior football player for Cabell Midland tragically lost his life last Thursday when he was struck and killed by a Jeep on Interstate 64 near his high school.

His coaching staff and team had a decision to make and boy did they make the right now. They went out played with heavy hearts the next night after losing their star player, and they whooped Riverside 42-14.

There were so many fans in the stands wearing his jersey number to honor him and his family.

According to Cabell County Sheriff Chuck Zerkle, Rider was involved in an altercation at the school Thursday, which prompted his mother to pick him up. Rider got out of his mother’s vehicle, ran toward the back side of the campus, across the football field, and onto the interstate where he was tragically hit by a passing vehicle.

Rider was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later.

Please keep the family in your prayers, and if you would like to donate a Go Fund Me was set up to honor Caige.