Brawl breaks out at softball game between Central East and Clovis High Schools

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A combat broke retired aft a adjacent precocious schoolhouse softball crippled betwixt the Central East High Bengals and the Clovis High Cougars.

Video from the country shows the crippled tied astatine 6-6 successful the eighth inning. During past Friday's game, the Bengals, who were wearing achromatic jerseys, scored and began celebrating their win.

Moments later, a miss successful achromatic pants confronted a Clovis High subordinate successful bluish and the 2 began shoving each other.

Fists past started flying arsenic players and parents from some teams rushed successful to interruption up the fight. Tensions besides flared betwixt spectators.

It is unclear what was said to spark the confrontation.

Action News reached retired to the Central Unified School District, which said it is alert of the incidental and is taking it seriously. In a connection said:

The District is alert of the incidental and takes these matters precise seriously.

The concern was addressed promptly, and due disciplinary measures are being taken successful accordance with District policies.

We stay committed to maintaining a harmless and respectful situation and proceed to clasp our students to precocious standards.

Former Central East High student-athletes Zeke Leyva and Matthew Sherman said rivalries tin tally blistery but they judge this incidental went excessively far.

"The heated rivalry betwixt Central schools and Clovis schools. I mean increasing up playing sports for 4 years, seeing the aforesaid faces astatine Clovis, you're destined to privation to beryllium amended than them," Leyva said.

"I consciousness similar it's unnecessary due to the fact that I didn't bash worldly similar that. But astatine the extremity of the time similar helium said, it tin person heated emotions," Sherman said.

Multiple Clovis High parents who did not privation to spell connected camera told Action News the video was shocking, disappointing and showed mediocre sportsmanship.

No players were ejected due to the fact that the combat happened aft the game. However, Central Section CIF Commissioner Ryan Tos said determination is simply a strict sportsmanship argumentation successful place.

"They're each competitory and radical marque atrocious choices. Not conscionable students, we're seeing a batch of adults being ejected precocious arsenic well. This clip of year, those ejections tin pb to missing clip successful the playoffs," Tos said.

Clovis Unified besides issued a connection pursuing the incident:

Incidents similar that which occurred aft the past play of Friday's Central East and Clovis High softball crippled bash not bespeak the modular of behaviour and sportsmanship that we expect from pupil athletes and spectators. In collaboration with administrators astatine Central East and the California Interscholastic Federation, our schoolhouse medication completed an probe and recovered that players from Clovis High were not astatine responsibility successful the incident. We admit the seriousness with which the coaching unit and medication astatine Central are treating the incidental and volition proceed to clasp to a precocious modular of behaviour expectations successful our diversion programs.

The CIF said its bylaws already code spectator behavior, but caller rules are being considered to specifically code fans who participate the tribunal oregon tract during games, with imaginable violations starring to ejections oregon sanctions against schools.