
Pandemic puts winter sports season on the bench, local towns virus rate too high
By LORENZO RECUPERO
The Monday after Thanksgiving is supposed to be the day high school basketball teams get to dig in.
In Everett, it’s marked the first official day of the winter sports season, when nets are set free and shots go flying.
This past Monday, though, Everett High School’s gymnasium remained shuttered to sports events, blocked by the ongoing pandemic still denying organized sports in the area.
Everett and other surrounding communities, including Chelsea and Revere, are still ‘Red Zone’ areas where COVID infection rates are too high to allow organized team sports within the public schools.
So, instead of athletes bouncing balls, the court at EHS remains scuff-less and is now being used as an E-Learning center to accommodate students who are unable to learn from home.
What would have been a day of excitement and try-outs turned into a day without basketball, a development something Head Coach Stanley Chamblain laments.
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