FORT BRAGG — A positive COVID-19 test has led to the Clear Lake High School varsity boys basketball team withdrawing from the Fort Bragg Tournament following a 71-37 win over Potter Valley in first-round action Tuesday in Fort Bragg.
Tournament officials tested all players before first-round action Tuesday and Clear Lake senior Zane Robinson tested positive and was held out of the Cardinals’ win over Potter Valley. Clear Lake was scheduled to play again Wednesday afternoon without Robinson, but head coach Mike Damiata said he was informed early Wednesday by Lakeport Unified School District officials that the entire team would be quarantined for five days.
“They asked me if he (Robinson) practiced with the team on Monday and he did,” Damiata said of Robinson, one of the team’s top players. “The new (exposure) rules say you have to be quarantined for five days now instead of 10, so that’s a break because we have three (league) games next week and I didn’t know if I was going to have to reschedule them.”
Damiata said Robinson is currently showing no COVID-19 symptoms and “feels fine.”
Clear Lake’s entire roster will be retested Friday. If all the tests are negative, the Cardinals can resume playing Monday when they are scheduled to host St. Helena in a North Central League I game.
Clear Lake’s varsity girls team, which is also entered in the tournament, is not affected by the decision to withdraw the boys team.
The Fort Bragg Tournament runs through Thursday and tournament officials were scrambling early Wednesday to replace Clear Lake on the winner’s bracket side in preparation for Wednesday’s round of games.
