[Sports] Section V announces dates for high-risk high school sports

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NEWARK, N.Y. (WROC) — The Section V Athletic Council has announced the dates for the sectional tournament for high-risk sports. In January, New York state updated its COVID-19 guidelines to let local county health departments determine if higher-risk youth sports can be played, effective February 1, 2021. Shortly after, Monroe County Executive Adam Bello and Public Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza signed off on the idea. High-risk winter sports began their season this week. Boys and girls basketball, and ice hockey will have a closed sectional tournament in which only the top eight teams in each classification will make their sectional tournament.  Wrestling will hold class sectional tournaments starting on March 12, 2021. The “Fall II” sports season — which includes boys volleyball, competitive cheerleading, football, and girls volleyball — will begin on March 1 and the regular season will end on April 23.  Sectionals must be completed by May 2. The start date for the spring sports season — which includes baseball, boys golf, boys lacrosse, boys tennis, girls lacrosse, softball, and track & field — is April 19. “We will continue to be sensitive to spring sports that already missed a complete season and sectional/state championships last year due to the pandemic.” Indoor Track & Field is now looking to host a sectional tournament starting on Thursday, March 4.