The Diman Regional Vocational Technical high school football team recently had its Week 7 win against Old Colony erased from the books.

 

According to Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association assistant director Jim Clark, the Bengals informed Old Colony and the MIAA earlier last week that it is forfeiting that game because of a violation of an ineligible student athlete.

 

Diman had defeated the Cougars in its Week 7 matchup, 48-7. Instead, the Cougars are now credited with a 14-0 win.

 

The MIAA handbook states the Rule 86: Participation of an Ineligible Student:

The principal of a school which plays a student who is later found to be ineligible, whetherbecause of the student's own misstatement or lack of care on the part of the school authorities,shall notify in writing the principal(s) of the opposing school(s) and the Executive Director of theMIAA, forfeiting every competition in which the ineligible student competed.

 

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