{"id":414695,"date":"2025-10-02T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/414695\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:29:12","slug":"pair-of-newark-hs-football-teams-disqualified-from-playoffs-after-bench-clearing-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/414695\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Newark HS football teams disqualified from playoffs after bench-clearing brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Newark high schools, Weequahic and West Side, have been disqualified from the 2025 state football playoffs following a bench-clearing brawl during their game on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association cited its \u201cteam 3-DQ rule,\u201d which bans teams with three or more player ejections for unsportsmanlike conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The melee erupted with 6:40 left in the fourth quarter, triggered by a West Side player slamming a Weequahic opponent to the ground. Multiple players left the bench area, escalating the fight, while fans stormed the field and additional altercations broke out in the stands and nearby streets.<\/p>\n<p>Newark police restored order but made no arrests. Weequahic, leading 24\u20130 at the time, was declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p>The district is cooperating with the investigation and emphasized its zero-tolerance stance on misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY High School Sports Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatodayhss.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/football\/2025\/10\/01\/west-side-weequahic-playoff-ban-bench-clearing-brawl\/86459026007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bench-clearing brawl leads to disqualification from football playoffs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bench-clearing brawl leads to disqualification from football playoffs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Newark high schools, Weequahic and West Side, have been disqualified from the 2025 state football playoffs following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[70834,70833,7,70828,70832,6,84,70830,70831,70829],"class_list":{"0":"post-414695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-bench-area","9":"tag-bench-clearing-brawl","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-new-jersey-state-interscholastic-athletic-association","12":"tag-newark-high-schools","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-playoffs","15":"tag-state-football-playoffs","16":"tag-weequahic","17":"tag-west-side"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115305759651649347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}