It’s been a good-news week for Orange County high school teams in several sports.
There will be a season for football, water polo, baseball, softball, lacrosse and soccer now that the COVID-19 adjusted case rate for the county dropped to 11.9 per 100,000 this week. That is below the state’s new threshold of 14 per 100,000 for a county to allow inter-team competition for those contact outdoor sports.
It still doesn’t look good for basketball and volleyball. As indoor moderate- and high-contact sports, the adjusted case rate needs to drop much further before those sports can be played indoors. CIF leadership is working with the California Department of Public Health to determine what that rate needs to be to allow basketball and volleyball to be played indoors.
Changes could be made, including possibly moving those sports out of the hardest-to-reach tier, yellow, in…
