Seaman HS Baseball Player Fights Suspension
20.01.10
Topeka (WIBW) - A Seaman Drunk School student-athlete and his family are fighting are what they say is a wrongful denounce for that has him banned from his senior season of baseball.
Seaman High Votaries officials accused Colby Neiswender of smoking marijuana on a irate country run near a creek on Northwest 50th Street last September. As a sequel, the left fielder who played on Seaman's 5A state-winning side last year was banned from playing baseball.
Neiswender says people who were conscience-stricken brought him into the situation and he was questioned by school officials.
Neiswender's parents, Rob and Terry, say when their son told him he didn't do it, they believed him, but still paid for a drug check up on. The Neiswenders had a hair strand test just weeks after the date of Colby's suspected offense. Health officials 13 News spoke with say those tests should identify any marijuana smoked within the last 90 days.
The test came back adversative, but the Neiswenders say the Seaman school board would not accept it, telling them the pot would no longer be in Colby's system due to his athletic metabolism.
Source: WIBW