BOWLING GREEN — The baseball program at Bowling Green State University will be eliminated effectively immediately, the school said Friday.
The program will be cut as part of the school's effort to shave $2 million off the department of athletics budget following the coronavirus pandemic. The university as a whole is projecting a $29 million shortfall for the next fiscal year.
The school says the decision to cut baseball will save about $500,000 annually.
Bowling Green director of athletics Bob Moosbrugger — a former Falcons baseball player — said the move was needed.
“Clearly, I know that fans and donors and certainly baseball alumni will be disappointed in this decision, and in me,” Moosbrugger said in a virtual press conference.