Add Frontier Regional to the list of schools that will be competing in the Franklin County basketball league this winter.
After the Deerfield Board of Health voted last week to allow Red Hawk teams to practice but not play games, the BOH met again Friday night and in a 3-0 vote, voted to allow games to be played for the first time next week.
“I’m recommending we go ahead with the games,” Deerfield BOH member Carolyn Shores Ness said. “Our numbers are coming down in Deerfield, our numbers are looking good. They’ve only had 13 clusters related to basketball in the entire state. It’s very low. I feel like this week is relatively safe.”
Every school in the Franklin County bubble played basketball games last week except for Frontier and Mohawk Trail, the latter of which is slated to open its season with boys and girls basketball games on Tuesday.
The BOH said it will continue to go week-by-week with games, and they plan to meet again next Friday to determine whether to keep moving forward with competition outside the school.
“If we have an issue, we’re watching this closely,” fellow member Trevor McDaniel said. “If we see something crop up like with the schools, we’d shut down pretty quick.”
The Red Hawks have rescheduled the games that were canceled last week to later in the season. Like all other schools in the bubble, there won’t be fans allowed inside Goodnow Gymnasium this winter. Instead, all Frontier game will be streamed on Frontier Community Access Television.
Frontier basketball teams are expected to begin action Tuesday with games against Hopkins Academy.