BALTIMORE, Md. (April 24, 2015)-The Morgan State softball team will travel to Princess Anne, Md. this weekend for a MEAC Northern Division series against the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
 
The series gets underway with a doubleheader on Saturday, beginning at 1 pm, before closing out the series with a single game on Sunday at noon. This weekend will be the final home series for the Lady Hawks, who will be honoring their seniors. In a classy move on the part of the UMES coaching staff and softball program, Morgan State's three seniors will also be recognized during the Lady Hawks' Senior Day festivities.
 
UMES currently sits in fifth-place in the league standings, while the Lady Bears are in sixth. Only the top four teams in the division will advance to the MEAC Tournament. 
 
The Lady Hawks (7-26, 4-8 MEAC) are coming off a non-conference doubleheader home loss to the University of Delaware on Wednesday, by the scores of 11-0 and 17-0.
 
The Lady Bears (4-28, 3-8 MEAC) moved up in the northern division standings from seventh to sixth-place yesterday without even playing a game, following Coppin State's doubleheader loss to Norfolk State on Thursday afternoon. The first-place Spartans and Coppin State conclude their series with a single game today.
 
Morgan State, which is on a four-game losing skid, is coming off a non-conference doubleheader series loss at rival Towson on Wednesday. The Lady Bears would drop the first game 4-3, before falling to the Tigers in five innings, 11-3.
 
The Lady Bears, who have lost 7 of their last 8 MEAC games, dropped their last league series at home to Howard (April 18-19). The visiting Lady Bison regrouped from dropping the opening game to win the final two games to capture the series win, thus spoiling Morgan's Senior Day.
 
The Lady Bears are 14-1 against UMES since the 2010 season and have won five straight series. The last time UMES defeated Morgan State was on April 27, 2013, 13-10 in Game 2 in Princess Anne, Md. The Lady Hawks' last series win against Morgan State came in 2009, with UMES winning two out of three games in Baltimore.