Church Ball Brawl

I don't know how many have seen that t-shirt that says: "Church BasketBall, The Brawl that Begins with Prayer." Well at our Young Men's basketball game today we had one of those games. We are in the play-offs. I am coaching the team and so far we hadn't lost. We were playing this team known for their tempers (their Old Men team too). So the game is going along just great. The game was pretty close. There had not been a lot of fouls or physical play until four minutes left in the game. There ends up being a loose ball and two players grab it, one from my team and one from their's. The referee's call a foul on our player and after the whistle the two players were still fighting for the ball. The other team player pushes our guy, he pushes him back, then their player shoves our guy, and our guy throws like a chest pass back at the guy and the ball hits him in the thigh. At this point I'm thinking oh no our guy is going to get a technical foul, after a few seconds the opposing player decides it's not over and runs at our guy and tries to kick him. So now I start yelling and heading over there to break it up and before I can get over there the opposing player throws two closed fisted punches at our player and hits him in the eye. Our player basically walks away as we break it up. He had one big shiner. It was crazy, never seen that happen before in a game. We ended up losing by a few points which isn't important. Our guy is okay but the thing that makes me mad is the Stake Young Men's President doesn't think the player that threw the punches should have to sit out the rest of the tournament. I think something's wrong here. So we will wait and see what happens. So there was my exciting Saturday. Got to love Church Basketball.