There is a short story in Wednesday's paper about an incident that happened on a Cooper tennis trip. In short, one of the boys was injured and had to be treated at a hospital Thursday night following what principal Gail Gregg called a non-tennis related injury.

Now, I know there are already rumors flying about hazing, but I didn't use that word in my story. I don't plan to use it unless it is deemed by Gregg that what happened was, in fact, a form of hazing. The incident is being investigated and the results of that investigation should be known within the next couple of days.

But before you start worrying about the state of high school athletics and bemoaning the lack of character in kids these days, take a breath and give this time to work itself out. I think that, once it does, this will go down as kids being kids and kids making a bad decision — a decision that, in all likelihood, had no sort of malicious intent behind it but was instead just a group of teenage boys acting like, well, teenage boys.

If that’s not the case, I will certainly report the facts. I will do the same if the opposite is found to be true. Either way, let’s hold off on passing judgment until we actually know what happened.