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Page A-46 Shelton-Mason County Journal — Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 Sports &0utdoors v North Mason High School football players run on to the field before a fall 2019 home game at the Belfair school. Journal photo Justin Johnson State, WIAA set metrics for prep sports return to play By Justin Johnson justin@masoncounty. com With updated guidance from Gov. Jay Inslee and the state Department of Health, the pathway to the return of high school sports in Mason County is clearer. Inslee’s two-phase “Healthy Washington” corona- . virus reopening plan allowed low— and moderate-risk outdoor sports to being training Monday. Inslee’s After long year, return of high school sports in sight 0 say the past 10 months I have been a “long. year” would border on understatement. Back in March, when the nov— el coronavirus rapidly shut down the sporting world, it seemed impossible to me that its effects would still be felt even a few months later. Yet as we near the one-year . mark since the first reported case in the United States landed By JUSTIN JOHNSON plan groups each of Washington’s 39 counties into one of eight geographic regions. Mason County joins Kitsap, Jefferson and Clallam counties in the N orth- west Region. The metrics used to determine corona- virus activity from the combined four-county region will be used to determine what phase the region is In. . Aniong those sports that were allowed to fully resume training are girls soccer and boys and girls cross country. In addition, other sports were allowed in Snohomish County, our entire way of life is still upended. Making things worse has been the uneven response to the pandemic. While the. three West Coast states have remained in lock- down since March, which in- cludes shutting down in-person schooling and education-based sports, those states immedi- ater to the east had no such restrictions. The Rocky Mountain states of Idaho, Montana, Utah and N e— vada all returned students to the classroom and teams to the field. The scene was especially jar- ring on state’s eastern border, in places such as Pullman or Clarkston, where just across the border in Idaho, high school teams played complete seasons in Moscow and Lewiston. In my home state of Utah, Where I have several good to resume individual or small~group activities in pods of five or fewer. On Jan. 6, the Washington Interscholastic Ac— tivities Association —- the state’s governing body for high school sports and activities — changed its com- petition calendar to move the start of traditional fall sports to Feb. 1. The updated activities calendar, combined with see SPORTS, page friends coaching, almost all com- pleted their season — including one whose team captured Utah’s 6A state soccer championship. ’ Meanwhile, here in the Ever— green State, our fields and gyms have been mostly empty and 'dark since the shutdowns began 10 months ago. Over the past few weeks, signs have emerged that it might see POST, page AL47 i