Limestone hazing investigation shifts to soccer team
2/16/06
GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) - The investigation of hazing at Limestone College has shifted from the baseball team to the men's soccer team.
Limestone President Walt Griffin said he learned late Tuesday that freshmen members of the soccer team were half-clothed in an apparent hazing incident last August.
Griffin said two of the team's five spring games have been canceled. Twenty of the 32 team members have been disciplined and must perform 25 hours of community service.
That's the same punishment given 34 baseball players.
Limestone officials are trying to determine the scope of the problem with their NCAA Division II programs.
Griffin said both hazing incidents occurred off campus and alcohol was involved. Photographs depicting the hazing were posted to public Internet sites. The pictures of freshmen baseball players, wearing jock straps or boxers covered with chocolate and molasses and sprinkled with flour or cereal, were sent to college officials.
Griffin forfeited three baseball games and said Monday that 24 players on the baseball team would be suspended one to three games, based on their culpability. Two captains were stripped of their titles.
