{"id":450505,"date":"2026-09-02T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450505\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:16:08","slug":"san-franciscos-lowell-high-school-baseball-team-required-to-forfeit-games-replace-head-coach-after-racial-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/450505\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco&#8217;s Lowell High School baseball team required to forfeit games, replace head coach after racial incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; The San Francisco Unified School District will require Lowell High School&#8217;s varsity baseball team to forfeit games and replace its head coach following a racial incident involving the team last spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The district released findings from its investigation Sunday during a virtual meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to SFUSD, the incident involved alleged race-based taunting by varsity players who attended a junior varsity game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The California Interscholastic Federation also conducted an investigation and found that Lowell High violated sportsmanship rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As a result, three games will be forfeited, and the school will hire an interim head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a statement, SFUSD said, &#8220;There is no place for racism, discrimination, or radicalized harm in the Lowell community or anywhere in the district.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The disciplinary measures follow the district&#8217;s investigation and the CIF&#8217;s findings related to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) &#8212; The San Francisco Unified School District will require Lowell High School&#8217;s varsity baseball team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[178184,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-450505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-178184","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}