Incident halts Colton sports

A threat of violence caused the administration at Colton High School to cancel all sporting events on Tuesday.

"There was an incident on campus at the end of one of the lunches involving several students," Colton athletic director David Drake told Prep-dog. "I don't know what it was about because I was in a meeting. But it caused our administration to order not a lock-down, but something just below that. I was told to cancel all sports, including the away trips."

Also cancelled Tuesday night at Colton was night school and ROP classes.

Colton was scheduled Tuesday to have an array of events against both San Gorgonio and Cajon. They have all be re-scheduled.

Yellowjackets football coach Harold Strauss shed a little more light on what happened Tuesday on the Colton campus.

"Last Thursday a kid was busted for drugs," Strauss said. "He was a gang-banger kid and he accused another kid of snitching him out. Things escalated (Tuesday) and there were some verbal threats and things went back and forth, but there were no (fisticuffs). There was a big police presence, as well as the presence of staff members. It was just one of those crazy situations."

Strauss said that by 3 p.m. Tuesday when the various sporting events would have started, things were quiet. But by then, the events were suspended. Here are the make-up plans, according to Drake:

Girls softball
San Gorgonio at Colton (today)

Swimming
Cajon vs. Colton at the Gonzales Center (today)

Golf
Colton vs. Cajon at Shandin Hills (Thursday)

Baseball
Colton at San Gorgonio (Friday)

Boys tennis
Cajon at Colton (Friday)