Texas college baseball pitcher faces expulsion for attacking opponent

A university baseball bottle from Weatherford University (Texas) is encountering feasible expulsion for assaulting a challenger as he rounded the bases throughout a crowning achievement trot. 

“We are surprised and also let down at what occurred in our video game today,” Weatherford baseball trainer and also associate sports supervisor Jeff Lightfoot said in a statement on Wednesday. “This sort of actions cannot be endured.”

The event taken place throughout the the top of the 6th inning in between Weatherford and also North Central Texas University in Weatherford, Texas, when very first baseman Josh Phillips struck a permission crowning achievement off bottle Owen Woodward to place NCTC up 3-2.

As Phillips rounded 3rd base, Woodward billed his challenger and also tackled him to the ground, knocking Phillips’ safety helmet off his head. The incident was shared on social media.

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The viral video clip reveals Phillips’ colleagues tornado out of the dugout and also overdo top of Woodward. Both were divided and also Woodward’s colleagues accompanied him to their dugout. In spite of the hit, Phillips, a fresher, stood up and also tipped on home base. 

“After the event umpires put on hold the video game till additional notification,” Weatherford University introduced in a statement shared on Twitter.

Weatherford University stated its examining the event, along with the Weatherford University Authorities Division. Woodward, a student, encounters possible corrective activity “as much as and also potentially consisting of expulsion,” the declaration checks out. 

Dr. Brent Wallace, Chancellor of NCTC, stated he’s “operating in combination with them to identify the complete level of this occasion.”

U.S.A. TODAY Sports connected to Weatherford University for added remark. 

Although Woodward had “no previous cases of any kind of kind,” Lightfoot stated Weatherford University is “totally shamed by this event.”

“We do not excuse this sort of actions. We have actually striven to construct a program with the greatest of requirements,” Lightfoot stated.” We ask forgiveness to North Central Texas University and also the followers of WC baseball.”

Wallace stated the event will certainly “be made use of as a mentor minute for our trainee professional athletes to aid make certain these cases do not take place in the future.”

“NCTC anticipates our trainee professional athletes to display the highest degree of gamesmanship both on and also off the area,” he included a declaration. “We value the stability of the Weatherford Management in connecting with NCTC.”

Weatherford University and also North Central Texas University are arranged to play each various other once again on Saturday. Weatherford University is around 60 miles miles from of Dallas.

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