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Cincinnati Enquirer

The Middletown City School District plans to assess its plan for its fall athletic programs on Sept. 8, according to Middletown communications specialist Elizabeth Beadle. 

“We needed to make some decisions now because teams are scheduling and they wanted to hear if they’re gonna be playing Middletown or not,” Beadle told The Enquirer. “We’re going to cancel our games from now until Sept. 8, then reevaluate and hopefully have a concrete answer then.” 

Middletown is still starting the 2020-21 school year virtually. Beadle said that students are picking up laptops and hot-spots this week. 

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On Aug. 14, Middletown partially lifted its suspension of fall extracurricular activities. Middletown is currently in the first phase of the OHSAA’s Return to Play Guidelines with fall sports and marching band currently training. 

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Tuesday that both contact and non-contact fall sports could move forward and the new health order was released on Wednesday. 

With the high school football season slated to kick off Aug. 28, the district’s decision to reevaluate on Sept. 8 would mean the Middies would miss their first two games of an already abbreviated season.