UMES Throws In The Towel

University of Maryland Eastern Shore has announced they will forgo athletics for the remaining 2020-21 school year due to ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. A Division I member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, the Hawks Softball squad finished a pandemic shortened 2020 season 3-18. The move coined by an institutional release as “out of an abundance of caution and concern for the welfare of student athletes”, seems to be more about financial stability and lack thereof by schools of similar size and level like UMES.