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School officials, parents and players remained puzzled Sunday over what caused 19 members of a high school football team in northwest Oregon to suffer muscle damage three of whom required surgery following a fall camp.

School officials, parents and players remained puzzled Sunday over what caused 19 members of a high school football team in northwest Oregon to suffer muscle damage three of whom required surgery following a fall camp.

A doctor sums up the illness that hit 19 members of a northwest Oregon high school football team as very weird. They all suffered muscle damage after a preseason camp. Three of the McMinnville High School players also were diagnosed with a rare soft-tissue condition called compartment syndrome, which caused soreness and swelling in their triceps.

Mimi Greenlee, vice president in charge of this weekends annual Westport Public Library book sale for the Friends of the Library, instructs a group of Staples High School football team members today who are among more than 300 volunteers working on the sale.