BREWER, Maine — A dislocated right hip suffered during last Friday’s Class B North football championship game will force Brewer High School three-sport standout Logan Rogerson to miss his final season of basketball with the Witches.
The senior quarterback was injured late in the first quarter of his team’s regional final at Brunswick as he attempted to scramble away from defenders on a fourth-down play.
“It all happened so fast,” said Rogerson, the son of Gary Rogerson and Cheryl Harvey. “I rolled out to the right and avoided about three defenders. Then I got hit, and someone’s helmet came down and hit me right on the hip. I was laying on the ground after that.”
Medical personnel from both schools quickly attended to Logan Rogerson, and within what he described as “30 or 40 seconds,” they were able to put his hip back into place.
Rogerson had X-rays taken at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bangor later that night and met Monday with with Dr. Kenneth Morse of DownEast Orthopedics in Bangor.
Rogerson said he will be on crutches for the next six weeks, then have a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan to determine the health of the injured area. If the outlook is good, he then would begin physical therapy.
Rogerson hopes his recuperation will be completed by late February or early March, in time to allow him to play his final season of varsity baseball at Brewer before he graduates to Husson University in Bangor, where he plans to play both football and baseball.
Brewer will return fairly veteran teams for the upcoming basketball and baseball seasons. The Witches’ boys basketball team advanced to the Eastern Maine Class A quarterfinals last winter, and the school’s baseball team was the Eastern A runner-up in the spring.
“Missing basketball is obviously going to be tough,” said Rogerson, a starting guard in basketball and the starting shortstop in baseball. “My younger brother [Kobe] is a sophomore, and this would be my last year to play with him, but I guess I’d rather take basketball off and play baseball than injure myself even more and miss both.
“Just missing the last three-quarters of that football game was pretty tough for me. This will be tough, too, but in the long run it will be what’s best for me,” he added.
Rogerson anticipates attending basketball practices and games to support his brother and his other teammates. He also plans to help coach the school’s unified basketball team, which begins its preseason in January.
“I thought that would be a great opportunity to be a leader in the community and help out other kids,” he said. “It will be fun, for sure.”
Hip dislocations are considered rare in football, but Rogerson’s injury was the second of its kind suffered by a prominent Maine high school player this year.
Foxcroft Academy quarterback Hunter Smith suffered a dislocated hip during a preseason game in late August and missed his entire senior football season with the Ponies.
Smith, a Division I college football prospect as a wide receiver, is expected to join his school’s basketball team this winter and also has been invited to play in the prestigious Blue-Grey North-South All-American Bowl football game on Jan. 9, 2016, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
