(EAST LANSING) – Suspended, not canceled.

That's how Michigan High School Athletic Association Executive Director Mark Uyl describes the situation they are in, following the announcement Sunday by Governor Gretchen Whitmer of an epidemic order that is in place from November 18 to December 8.

The order, in addition to temporarily closing restaurants to indoor service and moving all high schools to at home learning, has also suspended the remaining Fall sports tournaments and put a halt to practices for Winter sports.

Uyl says the MHSAA is going to do everything possible to see the Fall sports season come to an end like they would under normal circumstances. ...... {LISTEN}.

Uyl says the MHSAA will meet this week to put a plan in place for the remainder of the Fall sports season. ...... {LISTEN}.

Uyl says if the epidemic order is extended, then the MHSAA will look at their plan and adjust it. He says they want to do everything possible to end the Fall sports seasons before January 1.