Frazier softball player starts petition to save spring sports
March 16, 2020

Frazier softball player starts petition to save spring sports

By Mon Valley Independent

By Bill Beckner Jr.

Trib Total Media

A Frazier senior softball player has started an online petition to influence the PIAA’s upcoming decision on what to do with the spring sports season in the state.

Emi Curcio, a key player for the defending PIAA Class 2A champion Commodores, hopes the movement she began Friday will sway the state’s governing body for high school athletics to allow a spring season to play out, no matter how revamped it might look.

The PIAA has postponed the end of the winter season by putting its basketball and swimming championships on hold.

Gov. Tom Wolf ordered the closure of all schools until at least March 30 in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

As a result, baseball, softball, lacrosse, boys volleyball, boys tennis and track & field athletes won’t get to practice next week. The season was scheduled to open March 20 for all of those sports except tennis, which already was under way when the mandate came down.

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