Two women’s college soccer players had to be pulled off each other after getting into a bitter scrap during a game Sunday, with the warring forwards banned from their teams’ next two games.
It was just 10 minutes into the second half of the Rutgers vs. University of Massachusetts game in Amherst, Massachusetts, when Gia Girman, a Rutgers forward, was called out on a foul. She was picking herself up off the grass when Ashley Lamond, one of the UMass forwards, came over to scoop up the ball.
Footage from the field shows the two players soon tussling and then slinging punches at each other as they tumble back to the ground. They continued pulling at each other’s hair until they were pulled apart by their teammates.
