according to SILive<\/a>. <\/p>\nIt was monitored by the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), which oversees the parish-based sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Video obtained by the Staten Island Advance initially shows\u00a0two moms\u00a0locked in a heated exchange that quickly escalated. <\/p>\n
Tensions boiled over when one shoved the other, sparking a furious exchange of chaotic punches.\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
Parents erupted into a massive fight during a 6th-grade boys basketball game on Dec. 20 at St. Teresa in Castleton Corners. Silive\/YouTube<\/p>\n
After several men finally pulled the two women apart, a separate fight erupted during the disruptive melee, the video shows. <\/p>\n
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
Spectators and school staff rushed to intervene as the two mothers grabbed each other by the hair, with one delivering repeated blows to the other\u2019s head. Silive\/YouTube<\/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
\u201cTwo families got involved and, in the end, their families have been banned from CYO indefinitely,\u201d Neely said.<\/p>\n
Until now, leaders reportedly said altercations at\u00a0Catholic Youth Organization games\u00a0are typically handled on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n
However, the fight has prompted officials, including\u00a0Staten Island Borough President\u00a0Vito Fossella and CYO, to announce new rules on Tuesday aimed at preventing spectators from acting out of bounds.<\/p>\n
Michael Neely, the CYO County Director, said the two families involved have been banned from CYO indefinitely. Silive\/YouTube<\/p>\n
Spectators ejected by a referee for disruptive behavior at a CYO basketball game will now face a one-year ban.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mission was about the kids,\u201d Fossella, whose children reportedly played CYO basketball, said during a press conference. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage has captured the disastrous moment when multiple parents erupted into a massive fight during a Catholic youth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9895,7052,37882,57,9,56,63,65,64,134,58,12164],"class_list":["post-101028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-catholic-schools","tag-fights","tag-mad-brawls","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-staten-island","tag-us-news","tag-youth-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101028","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=101028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}