The South Alabama women's basketball team on Wednesday won their second round game in the Sun Belt tournament 80-70 over Coastal Carolina despite a fight breaking out late in the fourth quarter in which seven of their players—and one of Coastal Carolina's—were ejected.
The fracas began with 5:40 remaining in the game when South Alabama forward Cordasia Harris, positioned in the paint near her counterpart, Tracey Hueston of the Chanticleers, had words for the Coastal Carolina forward, who immediately threw a punch that missed Harris and appeared to hit referee Ryan Durham. Referee Marla Gearhart was knocked down in the midst of the scrum, and was laying motionless on the court for a few moments.
