A high school football player cost his team their '最高の Bowl 選手権' after breaking 選び出す／独身 支配する of 'no celebrating'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 09:45 BST, 7 December 2011

過度の 祝賀 or 過度の use of 軍隊?

A Massachusetts high school lost a 明言する／公表する 選手権 game because a player raised his arm in 勝利 as he ran for what would have been a go-ahead touchdown.

The 刑罰，罰則 for the gesture by Cathedral High School quarterback Matthew Owens in Saturday's 分割 4A 最高の Bowl left the losing team Tuesday waiting for an 公式の／役人 報告（する）／憶測 from the 明言する／公表する 協会 to 決定する whether the school could challenge the 審判（をする）'s 決定／判定勝ち（する）.

Blue Hills 地域の Technical School 運動競技の director Ed Catabia told The Boston Globe on Sunday that the 審判（をする） made 'a 広大な／多数の／重要な call, the 権利 call.'

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不適切な: A student quarterback's touchdown to 勝利，勝つ the game has been 取り消すd after he raised his 握りこぶし in the 空気／公表する, showing 'celebratory or taunting 行為'

'We try and play by the 支配するs, and the 支配する is 'no celebrating,'' he said.

The 審判（をする） was 施行するing a sportsmanship 支配する that 禁じるs players from celebratory or taunting 行為 while 得点する／非難する／２０ing a touchdown.

The 18-year-old 上級の was racing for a 得点する／非難する／２０ as time 負傷させる 負かす／撃墜する in the game against Blue Hills.

ビデオ shows Owens 簡潔に raising his left arm as he approaches the end zone.

The 刑罰，罰則 無効にするd the touchdown, and Cathedral lost the game 16-14.

Cathedral's 運動競技の director James Lynch said the quarterback's 直感的に move to raise his 手渡す for a few strides as he approached the end zone could not be reasonably 解釈する／通訳するd as 過度の 祝賀, taunting or malicious.

'I just give people the analogy: imagine a basketball player making a clutch three-pointer 権利 at the end of the game, and he turns around and he just 肉親，親類d of shakes his 握りこぶし in the 空気／公表する 肉親，親類d of thing,' Lynch told The Associated 圧力（をかける） on Tuesday.

Challenge: The student's school is を待つing an 公式の／役人 報告（する）／憶測 from the 明言する／公表する 協会 to 決定する whether the school can challenge the 審判（をする）'s 決定／判定勝ち（する）

'And it was 簡単に just that and it was nothing else ... I don't think it was anything その上の than just excitement on the player's に代わって,' he said.

Lynch 追加するd: 'I think it was a wrong 解釈／通訳 of the 支配する and I think that our players 扱うd themselves in a sportsmanship manner ... for 尊敬（する）・点ing the other team when they received the トロフィー in the award 儀式 and how they 扱うd themselves and how they composed themselves during the game.'

Lynch said about a dozen football players are also on the basketball team and they 報告（する）／憶測d for basketball tryouts and 'just 肉親，親類d of moved past it.

'They understand that it was definitely a 議論の的になる call and something that should be looked into.'

Owens' father told the Boston 先触れ（する） that his son had a normal human reaction to an exciting moment.

Blue Hills 主要な／長／主犯 Michael Barrett and Catabia did not すぐに return calls or an email from the AP on Tuesday 捜し出すing comment.

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