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A win for youth sports happened in San Diego as a county judge granted a temporary order to resume youth sports activities.

It is "as long as they follow the same or similar COVID-19 protocols used for competition in professional and on collegiate sports, within the country," San Diego Superior Court Judge Earl Maas III ruled.

After local youth sports was shut down for 11 months since the start of the pandemic, the ruling was met with approval among the city's various sports clubs and youth athletic centers.

"The kids in California have been unfairly suffering now for ten months. We've seen depression at its height, inactivity at its height and we've seen kids lose out on college scholarship opportunities," Brian Enge, CEO of Surf Cup Sports told Fox News.

Marlon Gardinera, the Scripps Ranch football coach and the father of one of two high school athletes who filed a lawsuit contesting California's restrictions on youth sporting events, said "I'm still riding high. The idea that we have to ask politicians for permission to relieve our kids of the restrictions that they've been under for 11 months still seems absurd to me," ABC 10NEWS reported.

The ruling came on the same day Gov. Gavin Newsom detailed a plan for the return of youth sports by setting a standard based on the daily average of new COVID-19 infections.