By Bryant Carpenter and Greg Lederer Record-Journal staff
CHESHIRE — A winter sports season is still a possibility for high school athletes in Connecticut. It just won’t be starting on time.
In an email sent Thursday, Nov. 5 to its member superintendents, principals and athletic directors, the CIAC announced it is delaying the start of winter sports, which had been scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 21, in order to have time to review upcoming recommendations from the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Also, teams in those sports won’t be able to travel or host teams from out of state. Lamont also pulled the plug on high-risk sports for the rest of 2020. Those sports include wrestling and 11-on11 tackle football. The CIAC announcement came as COVID-19 case numbers are on the rise.
“We’re doing everything we can to allow our sports and schools to go as best as we can, doing everything we can to keep you safe because we’re not out of the woods yet,” Lamont said Nov. 5, Regarding the winter season, several days after rolling Lamont decreed that athletes back some elements of his who play moderate-risk Phase 3 re-opening plan. sports, such as basketball, hockey and gymnastics, will “We’ve got some work to do, and that’s true of our state, have to wear masks while competing. While the CIAC is still waiting on the DPH report, some of the likely elements can be gleaned from some major announcements made by Gov. Ned Lamont.
See CIAC, A16
Petit, Martin are reelected In the Connecticut House of Representatives, Democrats and Republicans traded two prominent seats: the ones held by Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby. Neither leader sought re-election, and both flipped. Aresimowicz, a union official retiring after four years as speaker and 16 in the House, barely won re-election two years ago against a last-minute challenger, evidence of the 30th District becoming more favorable to Republicans.
The race this year was not close: Republican Donna Veach prevailed by about 2,000 votes.
Democrat Mary Welander of Orange, the winner of Klarides’ seat in the 114th, was running for the second time in a district deemed competitive once Klarides retired. In the Senate, Democrats flipped two Republican seats, defeating Sen. Gennaro Bizzarro, R-New Britain, in the 6th District and Sen. George Logan, RAnsonia, in the 17th.
State Rep. William Petit
Logan was bested by his Democratic challenger Jorge Cabrera. Bizzarro won a special election over Rick Lopes in 2019, but a rematch in a presidential year favored the Democrat in the 6th See Reelected, A13 State Sen. Henri Martin
Trump tops Biden in Plainville As Election Day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust President Donald Trump from the White House. Late-counted ballots in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia continued to keep Biden in the lead and offered him multiple paths to victory. The questions, rather, were these — where he would win, when it would hap-
pen and by how much. On Saturday, Biden captured the presidency when The Associated Press declared him the victor in his native Pennsylvania at 11:25 a.m. EST. That got Biden the state’s 20 electoral votes, which pushed him over the 270 electoral-vote threshold needed to prevail. See Trump, A11 R233461
CIAC delays start of winter season
And, if played, it certainly won’t look the same.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
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