updated Friday, May 14 at 12:29 p.m. ET

May Madness has met its match in the pandemic.

A college lacrosse season defined by stringent health standards and unpredictable pauses continued its roller-coaster run this week, as three teams who were scheduled to compete in NCAA tournaments withdrew due to COVID-19 protocols.

Mercy became the latest casualty Friday, when the NCAA Division II women’s lacrosse committee announced the Mavericks’ first-round game against Bentley would be declared a no-contest. Mercy had already made the 300-mile trip from its campus in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. to the game site in Rochester before the committee's decision was announced.

The East Coast Conference runner-up, Mercy was one of the teams that received an at-large bid over Le Moyne, whose omission from the NCAA tournament was one of the most controversial developments of Selection Sunday.

Bentley, which earned its first-ever NCAA tournament berth after defeating Adelphi for the Northeast-10 championship, will play Roberts Wesleyan in the quarterfinals Sunday.

The Mercy men’s lacrosse team also withdrew from the NCAA tournament, sending Mercyhurst automatically to the quarterfinals.

The NCAA Division III men’s lacrosse committee previously announced Thursday that Endicott withdrew from the tournament due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing, giving Christopher Newport a pass to the second round Sunday.

Last week, Farmingdale State withdrew from the NCAA Division III women’s lacrosse tournament, though the committee’s statement did not say if COVID-19 protocols were the cause of the Rams’ withdrawal.