UPDATED: COVID Delays Season Opener For Framingham High Girls Hoop & Wrestling Teams

FRAMINGHAM – There will be no tip-off tonight for the Framingham High girls basketball team, as a handful of players on the varsity squad have tested positive for COVID.

Tonight’s season’s opener against Wayland High on the road has been postponed and the team’s games for at least the next week have been postponed due to a recent outbreak of cases at the high school.

Between Wednesday and Thursday, more than 2 dozen positive cases of COVID-19 have happened at the high school, of more than 2,500.

The Flyers wrestling team has also been impacted, with 2 or 3 players with a positive COVID case.

Practices and the season opener for that team have also been postponed.

UPDATED: The boys basketball home and season opener was to have taken place tonight, but late this afternoon it was postponed as well.

Framingham Public Schools announced this week it has seen a surge in COVID cases since the Thanksgiving break.

There have been 148 cases since Thanksgiving.

In total, there have been 330 cases total this school year.