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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 Okitibbeha 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. Holleys son also got involved in the fight, per the Commercial Dispatch.Both men were arrested and charged with misdemeanor fighting, per Starkville police.A coach and umpire were arrested and charged with misdemeanors following a physical altercation at a 14U baseball game. The player involved is the coach's sonThe coach is also a deputy with the Oktibbeha County Sheriffs Office in Mississippi pic.twitter.com/KaMtDJHxVg Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 4, 2026Holley has since been terminated by the sheriffs office, according to a statement shared with local station WCBI. Sheriff Shank Phelps cited a zero-tolerance policy for Holleys 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. Theres blame for the umpire, theres big time blame for the coach and the (involved) kids of that team. Theres no right for that and theres no place for that in front of those kids.
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