High Schools to Stage Basketball, Volleyball Outdoors

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Most schools in the San Jose (Calif.) Unified School District have either found a way to provide COVID-19 testing to offer indoor sports, which demands negative results within 48 hours of competition, or opted out entire sports seasons. The only other alternative is to stage games outdoors — and six district high schools are doing just that.

There was no other choice, Pioneer High School athletic director and boys’ basketball coach Joe Berticevich told The Mercury Newsof San Jose. The district is not providing the mandatory testing for indoor play, and Santa Clara County is stuck in the state's "orange" reopening tier, so Berticevich helped organize a three-week round-robin season in boys’ and girls’ basketball and boys’ volleyball, with the first contests starting Tuesday, May 4, at Saratoga High’s outdoor sport courts.

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