The Mountain View High School soccer workforce has determined to forfeit their Conference 12 League championship recreation on Thursday night time, due to 5 gamers being suspended over an inappropriate social media put up.
After Mountain View’s 14-0 win over Rosemead High School last week, a picture exhibiting several Mountain View gamers pretending to make gun gestures with their arms surfaced on social media, according to Fred Robledo of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
Police automobile positioned outside of Mountain View High School in El Monte, Calif.
“It was an inappropriate post and our players should be better. Our school determined it was a dangerous post. You shouldn’t be making gun gestures,” Mountain View head coach Mark Paredes was quoted as saying.
“It’s too bad. We should have been celebrating our first win over Rosemead in 40 years and getting ready to play for a (league) championship game. Instead, we’re talking about this and not playing a game. It’s a hard lesson to learn,” he added.
Mountain View coach Mark Paredes. (Instagram/@mtviewvikings). Instagram/@mtviewvikings
Paredes also claimed that Rosemead’s gamers also made a gun gesture on social media before the recreation, and his gamers’ doing so after the recreation was a response to that. But this allegation hasn’t been confirmed.
Mountain View, who is situated in El Monte, Calif., selected to forfeit Thursday’s night time’s recreation for security causes.
Paredes also addressed the determination to forfeit the recreation instead of enjoying with out the 5 suspended gamers.
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“We’re not a deep roster. You take five two-way starters away, it completely depletes us. It’s a real tough lesson to learn. Our kids come from tough neighborhoods, and they deal with a lot of obstacles, and this was a big opportunity for them. It is what it is. They will learn from it,” the SGV Tribune reported Paredes said.
Arroyo High School (6-4), who Mountain View (3-7) was meant to play on Thursday, now clinches the league title due to the forfeit.
Mountain View’s season is not over, as they had earned a assured playoff spot before forfeiting the championship recreation.
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