An Excel High School basketball participant who authorities say punched a referee in a face throughout a recreation earlier this week has been criminally charged.
The scholar of the Boston highschool has solely been recognized by age and gender in a launch by the Cohasset Police Department: a 16-year-old male, a 12 months youthful than the age launched within the preliminary studies following the Wednesday night incident at Cohasset High School.
The boy is scheduled to seem at Quincy Juvenile Court at a future date for a present trigger listening to on the police’s cost of misdemeanor assault and battery.
Dave Engelson, the president of the Massachusetts board of the International Association Approved Basketball Officials, wrote that the two,250 IAABO members in Massachusetts “are angered, frustrated and saddened — but, unfortunately, not shocked — by the in-game attack on one of our officials.”
“The shortage of officials, both in our state and nationwide, has been well documented. And while there may be a myriad of reasons for the crisis, the abhorrent treatment of officials by fans, coaches and players is at the top of the list,” he wrote. “And while the majority of stakeholders in high school sports do not fall into that category, the sad reality is that incidents like this continue to occur.”
He referred to as on “local authorities, Boston Public Schools and the MIAA to take swift action that includes appropriate punishment for anyone sharing in the responsibility for this dangerous attack.”
Police responded to the health club at Cohasset High School at round 6:45 p.m. Wednesday for a report of an assault on a referee by a member of the visiting Excel High School workforce. The recreation was instantly canceled following the alleged incident and the health club was cleared.
The referee didn’t require medical consideration, in keeping with the police assertion.
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association wrote “There is no place for violence or physical anger in sports” in an announcement following the incident.
“Our schools work to develop young athletes within the structure of interscholastic competition,” the affiliation added. “Our students play the game for the love of sport. Behaviors that run contrary to this have no place on our athletic fields, court, or hockey rinks.”
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