14 players from both Jose Rizal University and De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde were handed suspensions for their actions in their NCAA Season 98 game that was stopped after JRU's John Amores charged the Benilde bench and threw punches at several players on Tuesday.
11 Heavy Bombers and three Blazers were meted sanctions, as announced in a statement released by the NCAA Management Committee on Wednesday.
Amores was suspended indefinitely for the following reasons: intentionally bumping the referee, pointing a finger at the referee, disrespecting JRU ManCom representative Mr. Paul Supan, disrespecting court officials, charging towards the bench of Benilde, instigating a brawl, making provocative gestures meant to ignite a fight/brawl, and throwing punches against four Benilde players, namely Mark Sangco, Jimboy Pasturan, Taine Davis, and Miguel Oczon.
Eight JRU players were suspended for one game for "entering the playing court without recognition from the table officials during a brawl". These players were Jason Lendl Tan, Joshua Guiab, Jason Celis, Marwin Dionisio, Jan Marc Abaoag, Jonathan Medina, Karl De Jesus, and CJ Gonzales.
Ryan Arenal was suspended two games for "committing disrespectful acts before ManCom representatives while the representatives were pacifying the participants."
William Sy, meanwhile, was suspended one game for entering the playing court and two games for committing disrespectful acts, for a total of three games.
On the Benilde side, Sangco and Chris Flores were given two-games suspensions while Ladis Lepalam was suspended one game for the same reasons.
The penalties imposed, the statement said, were in accordance with the NCAA Manual of Operations.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
