November 25, 2020
By Paul McMullan/Catholic Review
Photos: Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff
While the traditional Thanksgiving Day football game between Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield was the highest-profile prep event affected by the coronavirus pandemic, few teams were as hit hard by the formal cancellation of fall athletics as the soccer team from Mount St. Joseph High School.
The Gaels had locked up the No. 1 seed in the four-team Baltimore Catholic League tournament, an innovation of six high schools spread across four jurisdictions. That tournament, along with all other remaining fall sports, was officially canceled Nov. 23.
The move was made by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, in response to an alarming rise in COVID-19 and local executive orders limiting outdoor gatherings. In Baltimore County, that had already led Calvert Hall and Loyola Blakefield to cancel the Turkey Bowl, pushing the 101st edition of their rivalry to 2021.
A Nov. 23 communication from the archdiocese to Catholic high schools, first reported by the Annapolis Capital, read: “In accordance with local jurisdictions that have recently issued orders prohibiting athletics due to the continuing surge of COVID-19 cases across the State of Maryland, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is cancelling the remainder of the Catholic high schools’ fall sports season effective Wednesday, Nov. 25.
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