(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of Eastern Shore Hawks, Posted on Facebook on June 19th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Princess Anne, MD) The University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Maryland announced the hiring of Ambridge graduate Justin Thomas as its new head baseball coach as of Friday. Thomas most recently spent the previous three seasons as pitching coach at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. Thomas will now lead the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks baseball program, which competes in the Northeast Conference (NEC), where the Hawks have been an associate member since 2023.