On a day that COVID-19 outbreaks claimed multiple scheduled SEC football games this weekend, the pandemic took the remainder of the season for a Mississippi college.
In a release issued late Tuesday afternoon, Copiah-Lincoln Community College announced it had cancelled the rest of its scheduled junior college football season for the Wolves.
The Wolves had played three games and had one game already postponed when it and Hinds Community College could not compete in October. They had set a contest to be played that would wrap up the regular season for both teams Thanksgiving week.
Instead, that game plus two more Co-Lin had on its schedule – at Jones College in two days and its regularly scheduled regular-season finale on Nov. 19 at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College will not be played.
“Unfortunately, we will be unable to complete the remainder of this football season,” Co-Lin President Dr. Jane Hulon Sims said in a release from the school that announced the move. “We are disappointed for our student-athletes, coaches and fans. Our top priority remains to be the safety and well-being of our students, faculty and staff.”
Mississippi Association of Community College Conference Commissioner Steve Martin also addressed the move in a release.
“Out of an abundance of caution, we've taken this action to continue to protect our student-athletes, coaches, fans and administrators,” Martin said, per the release.
Co-Lin opened its season with wins against Southwest and Pearl River before it felt to East Central, 13-10, in overtime on Oct. 29.
The Wolves have not played a game since that contest.