Youth Softball Umpire Punched In Face By Angry Mom

Parents need to chill in these youth sports leagues. On the night of April 9, 47-year-old Kristie Moore was umpiring a game when Kiara Nichelle Thomas, 32, the mother of a girl playing in the game, reportedly directed foul language at her and began questioning a call she made. She later ejected Thomas, but the woman stayed until after the game and punched her in the face...

Moore told WLBT...

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“It’s ridiculous,” she said. “The verbal abuse. And even now, the physical abuse now, at this point, and enough is enough. I also staff every USFA tournament in the state of Mississippi with umpires and it gets harder and harder to staff these tournaments because no one wants to listen to the verbal abuse and run the risk of what happened to me happening to them.”

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(The Spun)