ANNVILLE, Pa. (Convention News) – The Center Atlantic Conference (MAC) has declared a forfeit coverage for convention contests that can’t be played as scheduled owing to COVID-19.
The MAC forfeit plan goes into outcome for tumble sports conference contests that are not able to be performed thanks to COVID-19 elements applies as follows:


In drop athletics with convention schedules and qualifying postseason occasions (soccer, area hockey, soccer, volleyball), meeting contests that can not be performed owing to COVID-19 grow to be automated forfeits for the staff resulting in the cancellation.
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- Any contest that is not able to be done due to COVID-19 relevant challenges will quickly be considered a forfeit for the purposes of convention standings. The contest will not be able to be rescheduled and count for meeting standings.
- A decline will be supplied to the crew unable to contend, and a earn for the opposing group. This will only have an affect on the convention documents for the functions of the standings to seed the conference tournaments. Over-all information will not obtain a acquire or loss. These contests will officially be thought of a “no contest” by the NCAA.
- Disagreements pertaining to which crew is “liable” for the pause will be settled by the meeting business office in consultation with the MAC Executive Committee. If each groups are established equally responsible, equally teams will obtain a decline.



The convention will go on to check the pandemic as the academic 12 months moves into the wintertime and spring sport seasons. The plan is subject matter to transform right after the tumble period.
ABOUT THE Center ATLANTIC Conference

Found in Annville, Pa., the Center Atlantic Meeting is an NCAA Division III meeting comprised of the Middle Atlantic Convention (MAC), Center Atlantic Conference Commonwealth (MAC Commonwealth) and Middle Atlantic Convention Freedom (MAC Liberty).
Its 18 member establishments, found across three states, are: Albright University (Reading through, Pa.), Alvernia College (Reading through, Pa.), Arcadia College (Glenside, Pa.), Delaware Valley University (Doylestown, Pa.), DeSales University (Center Valley, Pa.), Jap University (St. Davids, Pa.), Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus (Madison, N.J.), Hood School (Frederick, Md.), King’s College (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), Lebanon Valley Higher education (Annville, Pa.), Lycoming College or university (Williamsport, Pa.), Messiah College (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), Misericordia College (Dallas, Pa.), Stevens Institute of Engineering (Hoboken, N.J.), Stevenson College (Owings Mills, Md.), Widener University (Chester, Pa.) and Wilkes College (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), and York Higher education of Pennsylvania (York, Pa.).
The MAC at this time sponsors 27 intercollegiate sports that contend in the NCAA Division III. A lot more than 7,000 scholar-athletes take part in baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross nation, area hockey, soccer, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s indoor observe & discipline, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s out of doors keep track of & discipline, softball, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s volleyball and wrestling.


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