{"id":100807,"date":"2026-01-15T03:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100807\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:32:30","slug":"parents-descend-into-violence-at-catholic-youth-basketball-game-in-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100807\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents descend into violence at Catholic youth basketball game in Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Footage has captured the disastrous moment when multiple parents erupted into a massive fight during a Catholic youth basketball game last month in Staten Island, New York<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The violent courtside brawl unfolded on Dec. 20 at St. Teresa in Castleton Corners during a 6th grade boys game between the school and Saint Clare, according to SILive<\/a>. It was monitored by the Catholic Youth Organization, which oversees the parish-based sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Video obtained by the Staten Island Advance initially shows two moms<\/a> locked in a heated exchange that quickly escalated. Tensions boiled over when one shoved the other, sparking a furious exchange of chaotic punches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spectators, other parents, and school staff then rushed to the scene in an attempt to separate the two mothers, who had begun clutching each other by the hair, with one landing a relentless barrage of punches at the other\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

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A brawl erupted at a children’s basketball game on Long Island. (Silive)<\/p>\n

After several men finally pulled the two women apart, a separate fight erupted during the disruptive melee, the video shows. Chaos reignited as the women returned to each other, continuing their violent struggle amid the ongoing turmoil.<\/p>\n

According to CYO County Director Michael Neely, the two women were parents, and some of those who became involved in the altercation were their family members, SILive reported.<\/p>\n

Neely added that the two women, along with the family members who became involved, have been suspended indefinitely from attending CYO games.<\/p>\n

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Numerous parents spiral out of control as a fight breaks out at a children’s basketball game in Staten Island on Dec. 20.\u00a0 (Silive)<\/p>\n

“Two families got involved and in the end, their families have been banned from CYO indefinitely,” Neely said.<\/p>\n

Until now, leaders reportedly said altercations at Catholic Youth Organization games<\/a> were typically handled on a case-by-case basis,\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the fight has prompted officials, including Staten Island Borough President<\/a> Vito Fossella and CYO, to announce new rules on Tuesday aimed at preventing spectators from acting out of bounds.<\/p>\n

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Numerous men pull two women apart during a fight that broke out at a children’s basketball game. (Silive)<\/p>\n

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Spectators ejected by a referee for disruptive behavior at a CYO basketball game will now face a one-year ban.<\/p>\n

“The mission was about the kids,” Fossella, whose children played CYO basketball, said during a press conference. “The mission was about teaching them responsibility. The mission was about them having a good time: the kids. The kids are the center of this universe here. And every once in a while some spectators get out of control and ruin it for the kids and ruin it for everybody else.”<\/p>\n

Bonny Chu is a Digital Production Assistant at Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Footage has captured the disastrous moment when multiple parents erupted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[46197,560,9,24,63,233,319,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-100807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-family-genres","tag-kids","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-parenting","tag-sports","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}