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SC high school football player fighting for his life after crash

Single-car accident has left Wren high player hospitalized in critical condition

Gary Adornato

Wren High (South Carolina) running back Isaac Wigington is fighting for his life after a single-car accident on Sunday.
Wren High (South Carolina) running back Isaac Wigington is fighting for his life after a single-car accident on Sunday. / Wren Football Instagram

Isaac Wigington, a senior football player at Wren High School in Anderson County, South Carolina, is fighting for his life tonight after being involved in a single-car accident on Sunday.

Wigington was critically injured when his vehicle, a 2011 Toyota 4Runner SUV, crashed just before 2 a.m. His vehicle went off the left side of the road and struck a light pole before overturning several times, according to North Carolina State Troopers.

Both Wren High School and the Anderson School District One have declined to confirm anything about the accident but the school did place a post on its Facebook page showing students gathered in a circle of prayer under the heading WigingtonStrong.

Two rival schools, the Byrnes Rebels and the Woodruff Wolverines, Wren's scheduled football opponent for this week, has posted on social media asking for prayers for Wigington.

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Gary Adornato

GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

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