Rhode Island senior catcher Sonny Ulliana was doing a season long blog for URI Athletics this year. His most recent post went into the decision to cancel the rest of his last season in Kingston.
Going into that trip, we were unaware of what was to come. In an effort to limit the spread of the virus, many schools – Rhody and Delaware included – had decided to play games in front of no fans for at least a few weeks. The Ivy League took a harder stance and canceled their spring sports seasons altogether
It was a weird feeling getting on the bus, knowing that at any moment we could have to turn around and go home and not play. In a time like this, you do your best to keep things normal and stay positive by thinking everything will go according to plan. Only, that’s not what happened.
Suddenly, we pulled the bus over into an empty movie theater parking lot. Coach C stood up and told us that the University of Delaware had a case of Coronavirus, and that they were in the middle of a meeting to determine how to proceed. The bus got silent while we waited for the news on whether or not we were going to play.
Then the news came.
Coach C told us that Delaware has suspended their season, and like that, we were going home. At the time, we had no idea what this meant for our own season.
Time continued to pass as we headed home. Eventually there was another announcement from Coach.
“Guys, we just got word that our season has been suspended until April 3rd.”
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