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"Friday's home-opening series for the Sacramento State baseball team, vs. UC Riverside, was interrupted by a bench-clearing brawl.It appears on a force-out, a Riverside player was tagged out. He might have tried to grab the glove of a Sac State athlete, and a push or a shove later, the fight was under way.View photosFans said the fight made the home-opener unforgettable.\u201CI was just shocked,\u201D said Dave Soto, the father of one of the Sacramento State players involved in the brawl.\u201CIt\u2019s pretty surprising -- pretty entertaining,\u201D said George Whitson, a fan of the Hornets.KCRA 3 was there when the fight broke out in the third inning.\u00A0Looking closer at the video, it appears the fight started when Riverside\u2019s Eddie Young got caught in a run-down.\u00A0As Young is tagged out, he appears to hold on to the glove of Sacramento State\u2019s Andrew Ayers.Ayers pushes Young, then Young comes back and punches Ayers hard enough to knock his glasses off.Even the coaches were stunned by the hay-maker.\u201CThere was some serious swinging going on out there,\u201D Riverside head coach Doug Smith said. \u201CI haven\u2019t seen something like that in one of our games in probably six to eight years.\u201D\u201CAyers retaliated the way he should have,\u201D Sacramento State head coach Reggie Christiansen said.\u00A0 \u201CI didn\u2019t think he did anything wrong. Their guy retaliated.\u201DOne Sac State player was ejected, and three players from Riverside were thrown out.The Hornets opened the four-game series with Riverside at 2 p.m. at John Smith Field. A doubleheader is still scheduled for Saturday.Riverside ended up winning Friday's game, 2-1."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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