A unanimous vote held Friday at Beverly High School moved to grant the Greater Boston League schools (Everett, Malden Medford and Somerville) and early exit from the Northeastern Conference. The NEC school principals convened and the result was a 12-0 vote. The four GBL schools will leave the NEC in June.
In addition, an 11-1 vote was held in favor of allowing Revere to join the four GBL teams in leaving the NEC. Revere’s football team will remain in the NEC for the next two seasons. All other Revere athletic programs will depart the conference in June.
The results stem from an earlier vote that took place in January, when the NEC voted 7-5 in favor of ousting the four GBL schools from the conference. The four were originally slated remain with the NEC until 2021. In response, they motioned to be removed from the NEC in June, at the end of the school year.
The original GBL included Arlington, Cambridge, Everett, Malden, Medford, Revere, Somerville, Peabody and Waltham. The NEC-GBL merger started in the spring of 2017. It agreed upon as a two-year pilot program in 2016 after a 9-3 vote.
