RFP Staff
♦ North Rowan High School and Salisbury High School Basketball Teams were banned from post season competition after Friday’s bench-clearing scrap between the players and some spectators. The melee broke out in the third quarter and caused officials to halt the game. Big deal–adolescents act like adolescents. At least nobody got shot, stabbed, or rocked. Sportsmanship is ideal, but in the heat adolescent competition, tempers flair.
Friday night after the “bench clearer” both teams were taken to their respective locker rooms and were kept there until North Rowan was loaded onto buses.
Talk about overreaction: The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) banned North Rowan and Salisbury from post-season competition and each school has to pay a $1000 fine.
Allegedly the NCHSAA claimed that in accordance with the association’s handbook policy the penalty for the violation is the loss of 2016 basketball playoff privileges and a $1,000 fine. Both schools appealed the decision, but were denied.
Please note that both high school teams had outstanding records: North Rowan High School went 20-2 and Salisbury High School owned an 18-5 record.
(Editor’s note: Haven’t these alleged officials ever viewed NCAA bench-clearers at basketball and football games? Even in NBA and NFL Contests? Get real. During my high school days when I played football at Germantown High we regularly scrapped with other schools during the game and after the game. I vividly recall my teammates and I putting on our helmets and ducking down in our seats as the window glass went flying on our team bus. We got “rocked” by Simon Gratz High school students as we pulled out of their field. Nobody got sanctioned or fined. This was Philly sports back in the day. It still is. (We romped Gratz 50 to zip so I guess they were sore)
Overreaction NCHSAA.
