Sheriff’s deputy, umpire arrested after brawl at teens’ baseball tournament in Mississippi
A bit of league baseball tournament in Starkville, Mississippi took an unsightly flip Sunday as a coach began a fistfight with an umpire.
Darrell Holley, a lieutenant with the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office and a coach of a Starkville under-14 workforce, bought right into a brawl with umpire Jeff Akins after a Grand Slam baseball tournament. The struggle began shortly after the tip of the third recreation of the day, which SPC Select 14U, the workforce Holley coaches, misplaced 13-5.
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Video of the altercation reveals Holley showing to elbow Akins close to the pitcher’s mound, main Akins to retaliate with a push earlier than the 2 started punching one another. Holley’s son additionally bought concerned in the struggle, per the Commercial Dispatch.
Both males have been arrested and charged with misdemeanor preventing, per Starkville police.
Holley has since been terminated by the sheriff’s workplace, in line with an announcement shared with native TV station WCBI. Sheriff Shank Phelps cited a zero-tolerance coverage for Holley’s conduct in the assertion.
Tournament director Mike Narmour informed the Commercial Dispatch that there was “no place for” that sort of preventing and the battle was brought on by “stupidity all the way around.” Narmour was away from the tournament when the brawl broke out.
“Grand Slam Mississippi is sickened and devastated by these types of events, and there is no place for this whatsoever in youth sports or adult sports,” Narmour mentioned. “There’s blame for the umpire, there’s big time blame for the coach and the [involved] kids of that team. “There’s no right for that and there’s no place for that in front of those kids.”