Del Campo High School stripped of playoff win after parents attack umpires

Del Campo High School stripped of playoff win after parents attack umpires

In a high stakes playoff game game with the Del Campo Cougars, they won on an allegedly controversial play and it caused hater to attack umpires in the parking lot.

[boatymcboatface]

I've coached youth sports for the last 8ish years. I rarely have issues with opposing coaches. I rarely have issues with referees. I rarely have issues with kids. I have constant issues with parents.

[eagle]

If parents paid as much attention to academics as sports....

[bradleyhahn]

Parents are by far the worst part of youth sports.

[jellyroll]

Blue made the right call. Left hand got in prior to making the tag. Close but safe.
Parents have ruined everything. It's a shame.

[michaelbrown]

I would be ashamed if my parents acted like this, especially over a baseball game. This world is becoming a scary place.

[ecdzzzc]

As an official of sports for 22 years, this is exactly why there are no officials for any sports.

[jesserichardson]

The fact that the kids are laughing at the violence just goes to show the times we are in very very sad

[swankgd]

Am I crazy or is this a completely misleading report? It's presented as the game was forfeited because of the fight. But 1:16-1:26 clearly says that CIF made the forfeit because they took batting practice when they weren't supposed to take batting practice. They forfeited because they broke competition rules. NO ONE was punished for the fight.

Sure, it seems like CIF is dropping the ball in terms of responsibility for the fight. But they did NOT punish Del Campo as a result of the fight as the reporting implies (and everyone in the comments seems to have taken away from it). They punished them for breaking rules.

[jasonj]

I get so tired seeing those doing nothing wrong being punished for those who are breaking rules or laws. Those parents attacking the umpires need to be punished either by law enforcement or banned from watching the games, but they should be the only ones to suffer.

[SchillerDuval]

The parent (and sometimes coaches) situation in youth baseball is the worst it has ever been. There are two solutions: 1) ban all parents from attending games. 2) have police officers be at every game and stay until the umpires leave. It has come to this because adult children have decided to go crazy over a game.

[james]

Parents are the problem. I’m not sure if the laughing is related, but hearing kid’s laughter while the assault was taking place is really disturbing

[umpireva]

Umpire association should refuse to work those schools.

[henrybenak]

Years ago my daughter played softball. I was at the game with both sides screaming at the umpire, which I thought he was doing a good job. About midway through the game, parents from both sides got into a brawl. After awhile, the umpire called the game. I could not believe that these parents acted like 5 years olds with temper tantrums. My daughter quit playing the sport after the season was over. Problem was I saw a lot more of this behavior from parents.

[Namath]

The forfeit was NOT because of the fight. The forfeit was because De Campo took batting practice during the school day

[mydobie]

What the heck!!! And we wonder why kids are out of control. Kick parents out of games. Hope those parents are jailed.

[alvinroyston]

The real reasons for the forfeiture of the game was because of batting practice not the fight?

[tiggersdad]

Blanket punishments are ridiculous. The INDIVIDUALS that created the disturbance need to be held accountable, not everybody. The individuals should have been arrested and IF their kids were on one of the teams then only those kids need to go

[MrManAmong]

I mean… if taking batting practice during the school day on a game day is against the rules, then it is what it is. If they forfeit their win because obvious fans of the losing team attacked the umps, that’s absolutely ridiculous.

[washedupwarvet]

So they cheated and the coach is mad that they got caught. He's using the fight as a smoke screen for taking batting practice during the school day. Are we not going to talk about that? This journalist needs to do better

[SwordsforAlex]

Del Campo (Home team) broke the rules of taking batting practice during class time which the traveling visitors weren't allowed to do.