Fall sports in Lynnfield are back on after a two-week delay.
After the town was reclassified as a “yellow” district based on the Department of Public Health‘s (DPH) metric of average daily cases per 100,000 residents on Wednesday, the Lynnfield School Committee voted once again to resume fall sports in the “Fall Sports I” season that will run until Nov. 20. The school committee had previously voted to approve fall sports in early September, but the Pioneers had to put those plans on hold after the town was classified as “red” by the DPH two weeks ago.
School districts designated as “red” based on the DPH’s metric of average daily cases per 100,000 residents and which therefore have their high school students learning remotely at the start of the season must postpone their entire season, including practices, until the “Fall Sports II” season that will run from Feb. 22 to April 25.
But once the town flipped back to “yellow” in Wednesday’s weekly report by the DPH, the school committee met the next morning and voted to proceed with the season.
Tryouts and practices for boys and girls soccer, field hockey and cross country began at the high school on Thursday afternoon.