No charges filed in
attack on referee

The good news is, Shantel Marumoto isn't seriously injured.

Marumoto, a Kalaheo guard, suffered a back injury during Saturday's game against Kaiser. She was transported to Castle Medical Center, examined and released.

"She has a bruised back," Kalaheo coach Chico Furtado said. "She has a doctor's appointment Monday."

Marumoto was numb on her left side and felt a sharp pain on the right part of her back.

"The doctor said it's bruised from the middle of my back down to my tailbone," she said last night. "I can't really walk on my own right now."

The events that immediately followed Marumoto's injury have officials and administrators in the Oahu Interscholastic Association on edge.

With Marumoto on the floor, a parent raced to midcourt and struck an official with a forearm to the back of his head.

Furtado, tending to his player, didn't see the assault.

"I heard a ruckus and turned around. There were two guys pulling back a fan," he said.

The attacker, restrained by his wife and a friend, soon left the gym. A police report was filed, but as of last night, he had not been charged or arrested.

Officials didn't comment after the game, but yesterday head referee Tom Yoshida said: "I filed a report to the OIA office and commissioner of officials Louis Fuentes." Yoshida was not the official who was hit.

The game was delayed for 40 minutes until more police officers arrived. Another fan was ejected from the gym following an altercation.

"It got scary," Kaiser coach Lisa Mann said of some hostile fans in attendance. "I was concerned for my girls and our supporters."

Marumoto had a word for the adults who seemingly escalated the intensity.

"If people in the crowd could control themselves and keep the comments to themselves, it wouldn't be out of control," she said.

Two months ago, Big Island Interscholastic Federation basketball official Mason Souza was assaulted by a Konawaena boys player. Souza filed a report and pressed charges against the player, who is 18.