The superintendents representing the 10 South Coast Conference schools voted 7-3 on Wednesday to cancel the league’s sports schedules for the fall 2020 season due to COVID-19 fears.

Somerset Berkley Regional and Joseph Case High School are members of the SCC.

All Massachusetts spring sports seasons were cancelled last school year.

The SCC vote deferred the traditional fall sports to a later season, possibly the the newly-created Fall II wedge season (Feb. 22 to April 25) between the winter and spring seasons. Fall sports football, cheerleading and unified basketball had already been required by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association to move to the wedge season.

The SBR School Committee had voted one night earlier to proceed with fall sports seasons for field hockey, girls’ and boys’ soccer, golf and cross country. SBR Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Schoonover on Wednesday did not vote in favor of the motion to cancel the SCC’s fall 2020 season.

After the motion passed, Schoonover said in a text, the SCC superintendents agreed to support the decision regardless of how they had voted.

Schools whose leagues choose not to compete in fall 2020 can still choose to build and play independent schedules. Schoonover said SBR will not exercise that option.

“Knowing that our main competition will not be participating this fall, I would support playing in the fall II season with everyone else to give our students the best opportunity to compete against other schools,” he said in a text message.

The MIAA had allowed most fall sports to operate in 2020, but with modifications to game/event rules. The modifications were particulary game-altering for soccer and field hockey.

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