(Union Mills, IN) - A South Central High School football player is home after taken by a medical helicopter during a Friday night preseason scrimmage game.

Superintendent Ben Anderson said the boy seems to be doing very well now after experiencing some tingling in his hands and other parts of his body.

Anderson said the boy suffered what was described as a stinger to the spinal cord on a hard hit delivered on the home field.  The boy ran off the field to the sidelines before much of the tingling began to set in.

He said the boy, a sophomore, was taken to Memorial Hospital as a precaution and released the following day.

“Sounds like it was more of a scare than anything, thankfully,” he said.

Anderson said he hopes the boy returns to school this week but it might be a few weeks before he returns to the football field.