Punahou School graduate Abe Markowitz, the backup center for USC, will miss Thursday’s season-opening football game against the University of Hawai‘i due to a broken right foot, Trojans’ head coach Lane Kiffin told the Star-Advertiser today.

Markowitz, a 6-foot-1, 185-pound sophomore, was expected to see duty at center and guard until suffering the injury in Sunday’s practice.

“Unfortunately, he is going to have to have surgery and will probably miss the trip,” Kiffin said. “It just happend last night.”