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An NCAA Division II school soccer recreation between the Central State College Marauders and Fort Valley State College Wildcats descended into chaos Saturday after the ultimate whistle blew.

Central State defeated Fort Valley State 18-14, spoiling the Wildcats’ homecoming day. However the motion did not finish there.

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Sign poles and down markers are seen earlier than the Division II Soccer Championship to be held at McKinney ISD Stadium on December 21, 2024 in McKinney, Texas. (C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Pictures through Getty Pictures)

A video posted Journalist Kalan Hooks’ social media confirmed two Wildcats gamers getting right into a battle with a Marauders participant. The gamers started to pile on prime of one another, throwing some punches into the commotion. Simply as issues gave the impression to be cooling down and the gamers had been separated, one other skirmish occurred close to the stands.

“Coaches, take away your gamers from the sector,” the announcer was heard saying.

The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Convention (SIAC), which incorporates each soccer packages, introduced Monday that twenty gamers have been suspended as a result of controversy: eleven gamers from Central State and 9 from Fort Valley. Each head coaches had been additionally suspended.

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“Acts of unsportsmanlike conduct haven’t any place in intercollegiate athletics or throughout the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Convention,” SIAC Commissioner Anthony Holloman mentioned in a press release. “I’m extraordinarily disillusioned that this occasion has overshadowed an in any other case very aggressive soccer match.”

The convention mentioned each colleges had violated its code of ethics and had been fined an undisclosed quantity.

Element view of a penalty flag throughout a soccer recreation on November 7, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Cooper Neill/Getty Pictures)

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“We is not going to tolerate conduct that doesn’t meet these requirements, and we’re taking the mandatory steps to make sure that our student-athletes perceive the significance of representing the college with wild delight and professionalism each on and off the sector,” Fort Valley State mentioned in a press release.

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