The Junction City Brigade and Sabetha Bravos battled for nearly four hours Tuesday night at Rathert Field before the Bravos pulled out a 9-8 win. The game included controversy.
Junction City rallied from an 8-4 deficit in the 7th inning to tie the contest. Later in the 8th a member of the Bravos Wilfredo Aguilar was called out in a play at home plate before the scoring the winning run in the top of the ninth inning.
Players and coaches became involved in heated discussions on the field during the latter part of the game and at one point Brigade General Manager Cecil Aska called in police to help restore order. Two uniformed officers arrived and talked to the involved parties over the right field fence before the game resumed.
At one point during the heated on-field discussions in the eighth inning an umpire informed a Bravos assistant coach that he was suspended for four games.
Aska plans to file a report with the Mid Plains League office.
The tension followed a game between the Bravos and Brigade Monday night in Sabetha that went 15 innings with Junction City coming out on top 4-3. In that contest the head coach for the Brigade and a player were both tossed out of the game.