Duda: Media Interest Follows Unruly Hoops Crowd

Kearney radio station KKPR (98.9 FM) Sports Director Doug Duda says his phone has been ringing nearly non-stop after word got out that the Nebraska School Activities Association was investigating an incident that occurred during a basketball game Duda broadcast Tuesday night.

Duda was calling the action in the St. Paul girls basketball team's game against Centura in Cairo when St. Paul Coach Todd Alberts was ejected late in his team's 57-50 loss. Duda told Omaha World-Herald sportswriter Stu Pospisil that Alberts was calm after receiving his second technical foul, but more than a half dozen fans became unruly and had to be escorted from the gymnasium.

Several objects were thrown onto the court at the end of the game, Duda said, and at least a dozen law enforcement officers were called in to help control the crowd and protect the officials working the girls game and the boys game that followed.

Duda said no area TV stations were on hand to capture the fracas on video. In addition to Duda, KNLV (1060 AM) Sports Director Walt Smith of Ord also called the game.