A Texas girls' high school basketball game spiraled into pandemonium after players from Brenham High School and Bryan High School began fighting, and an adult woman allegedly grabbed a teenager around the throat and threw her to the floor, as reported by The New York Post.

The melee erupted in the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s game at Bryan High School in Bryan, Texas, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. What began as a battle for a loose ball quickly became a wild exchange of punches.

Bryan trailed 67 to 51 with two and a half minutes remaining when the team secured a rebound and raced down the court on a fast break, according to video obtained by KBTX. A Brenham player then knocked the ball from the Bryan player’s hands.

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Players from both teams dove for the ball, and the contest soon looked more like a boxing match. A mother in the crowd said one Bryan player allegedly kicked toward Brenham student athletes.

That alleged kick triggered several girls to begin throwing punches at opposing players, according to the mother’s account. Cameshia Mathis told KBTX, “It was a total of four girls on top of my daughter fighting her.”

Coaches and players from both schools tried to stop the fight, but several spectators then rushed onto the court. Amid the disorder, a woman in a pink shirt approached a Brenham player from behind.

The woman wrapped an arm around the teenager’s throat before hurling her to the ground. She had been watching from the opposite side of the court near the team’s bench.

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Mathis described the video of the alleged assault in stark terms. “Gut-wrenching. Heartbreaking. And it makes you feel rage. And all of the emotions,” she said.

Police and school officials opened an investigation into the brawl. An arrest warrant on an assault charge was issued for the unidentified woman accused of grabbing the high school player, KBTX reported.

Mathis criticized the adults who made an already violent situation worse rather than calming it down. “It’s heartbreaking, you know, that you have to worry about adults in this situation. Instead of de-escalating it, y’all are adding fuel to the fire,” she added.

Mathis’ daughter and the Brenham teammate thrown to the floor both went to the emergency room. Their injuries included bruises, scratches, and contusions, according to the account provided.

Coaches and officials eventually broke up the fight and separated the two teams. The game did not resume and was ruled abandoned, the Brenham Banner reported.

The score was later finalized as a Brenham victory. That result gave the Cubbettes their first win over the nonleague opponent in 12 years, according to the game recap.

Yet the confrontations were not finished when the teams left the court. Another altercation involving parents and players from both sides broke out as the visiting team tried to leave Bryan High School, according to the Brenham Banner.

The paper reported that the visiting team was confronted outside the locker room and in the parking lot. The altercation extended an ugly night that had already ended the game before the final buzzer.

Brenham head coach Brad Evans addressed his players’ response to the confrontation. “At the end of the day, they are still human,” Evans said. “They are going to defend themselves.”

A game with Brenham ahead by 16 points and only two and a half minutes remaining instead ended with an abandoned contest, emergency room visits, a police investigation and an assault warrant.

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