Update: R.I. team wins Pop Warner title, despite fight
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The Edgewood Eagles, who were allowed to play in this afternoon's Pop Warner Division II Midget Super Bowl Championship Game in Florida despite an altercation involving the team, won the game. The Eagles, of Cranston, soundly defeated the Goulds Rams of Miami, Fla. by a score of 30-8, according to the Pop Warner Web site. The ruling had allowed the Edgewood team to play followed a disciplinary review board hearing last night, said Pop Warner spokesman Jason Howarth. The Edgewood team was involved in an altercation yesterday where members of the Dorchester Eagles, Mass., Midget team assaulted members and adults affiliated with the Edgewood team, according to Howarth. Both teams were evicted from the their hotel In Florida, where the national competition is under way. The two teams consist of players ages 11 to 15. Once something such as a hotel eviction happens, Howarth said, a Pop Warner team or teams involved become in violation of the Pop Warner Code of Conduct policy -- policy coaches of all the teams in Florida -- some 64 -- must sign. The code violation generally triggers a disciplinary review board, made up of three neutral regional Pop Warner officials -- for which a hearing can be held in as little as four hours but within 24 hours. Howarth said that Pop Warner reached out to see if both parties wanted to hold a hearing last night. The Rhode Island team did so but the Dorchester team failed to respond, he said -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney There have been "multiple behavior issues" involving the Dorchester team this week, he said, and due to that and security concerns the team's sports complex credentials were revoked. A hearing for the Dorchester team was slated for 12:30 p.m. today. The review panel, at last night's hearing, decided to grant the Edgewood team a one-day waiver of the requirement that teams must be on the competitions grounds -- which was not the case once the teams were evicted from the hotel in Lake Buena Vista -- the Orlando area -- where the competion is held. The review board also determined that the Edgwood Eagles could potentially receive further sanctions as Pop Warner continues to investigate the incident. 
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It is such an embarassment that a team representing RI would be involved in such an incident. It is known throughout RI Pop Warner that the Edgewood team has broken numerous rules in the last few years only to be protected by the President of RISMA Pop Warner. She will defend them to the end no matter if they are wrong or right. Other teams in Pop Warner of RISMA who do things the right way are "picked on" and disciplined by the RISMA president without the full consent of the rest of the board of directors. This comes to show you that people who hold themselves in higher light than their other peers dont do themselves any favors and the truth will always come out. The Eagles feel as if they can take a group of Providence/Cranston kids and hold them to standards, even though they have not one member of their staff with the training or the where with all to do this. THEY are a bunch of frauds that become the players friends and not their coaches and mentors that they should be.
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