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A sheriff's deputy and a youth baseball umpire were arrested after a brawl at a kids' tournament in Starkville, Mississippi. The fight erupted following a game where the deputy's team lost 13-5.
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Sheriff's deputy, umpire arrested after brawl at kids' baseball tournament in Mississippi
A little league baseball tournament in Starkville, Mississippi took a turn on Sunday, as a coach started a fistfight with an umpire.
Darrell Holley, a lieutenant with the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office and a coach of a Starkville under-14 team, got into a brawl with umpire Jeff Akins after a Grand Slam baseball tournament. The fight started shortly after the end of the third game of the day, which SPC Select 14U, the team that Holley coaches, lost 13-5.
Video of the altercation shows Holley appear to elbow Akins near the pitchers’ mound, leading Akins to retaliate with a push before the two began punching each other. Holley’s son also got involved in the fight, per the Commercial Dispatch.
Both men were arrested and charged with misdemeanor fighting, per Starkville police.
Holley has since been terminated by the sheriff’s office, according to a statement shared with local station WCBI. Sheriff Shank Phelps cited a zero-tolerance policy for Holley’s conduct in the statement.
In a statement to the Commercial Dispatch, tournament director Mike Narmour said that there was “no place for” that kind of fighting. Narmour was away from the tournament at the time that the brawl broke out, but said it was caused by “stupidity all the way around.”
“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 said. “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.”
The brawl was triggered by a confrontation between Darrell Holley, a sheriff's deputy and coach, and umpire Jeff Akins after a game.
Both Darrell Holley and umpire Jeff Akins were arrested following the altercation during the tournament.
The incident occurred at a little league baseball tournament in Starkville, Mississippi.
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