The Colorado High School Activities Association met with officials from and high schools Thursday to sort out the repercussions of a that resulted in the ejection of three players and three assistant coaches from a varsity baseball game Wednesday afternoon.
All ejected parties — two players and one coach from Mullen, and two coaches and one player from Regis — will serve automatic one-game suspensions, according to CHSAA’s bylaws.
Assistant commissioner Bert Borgmann confirmed that former Rockies shortstop Walt Weiss was one of the Regis assistant coaches ejected.
Borgmann said both schools are investigating the matter and will present CHSAA with further disciplinary measures. Borgmann said CHSAA has sanctions it could apply to either school — such as a ban on postseason play — if issues are not addressed to the organization’s satisfaction.
“Both schools are working very diligently at addressing what happened on the field at Mullen because it is troublesome in an educational activity for something like that to happen,” Borgmann said.
Mullen athletic director Tony Schenbeck said Thursday that the school was taking the matter seriously but did not want to make a “knee-jerk reaction.”
“We’re not ready to make a comment,” Schenbeck said. “We still have to obtain information from different sources, then I need to meet with our administration.”
A message left for Regis athletic director Kelly Doherty was not immediately returned.
What seemed like nothing more than your average competitive and mildly chippy encounter between the longtime parochial rivals boiled over at the end of the sixth inning of Regis’ 10-8 victory.
Words were exchanged between players amid a contentious at-bat, and contact between the Mullen batter and Regis first baseman on the subsequent groundout caused an uproar from the Regis bench. That led to more words, then Mullen’s first-base coach started yelling at a Regis coach, and soon players from both teams and coaches were yelling, grabbing, pulling and wrestling each other to the ground.
“I think both schools are embarrassed about what transpired,” Borgmann said.
