A brawl burst out on Feb. 24 during the last game of the girls basketball season between the Fremont Tigers and Oakland High Wildcats. The game was at Fremont.

The fight took over a large part of the Fremont court and involved players, parents and guests. Others jumped in to try to stop it.

The question was: Who started the fight?

One Fremont player told her side of how the fight broke out late in the third quarter.

"The girl pushed me and choked me," said Fremont guard Kiki Jones. "I shoved her out of the ay and another girl came at me."

Benjamin Schmookler, the principal in charge of athletics at Fremont, said he thought the Tigers started the fight.

"It seems like a hard foul was given to the other team (Oakland) and we started a fight," he said.

Oakland High officials had no comment, according to The Aegis.

Athletes from both schools seemed unhappy.

"I was very upset because it seemed like we were being attacked," said Tigers forward Michelle Foketi. "I'm not embarrassed that we fought because we stuck together as a team and defended one another."

But some people, including Jones, were bothered that parents entered the fight.

"Parents made it worse," she said.

Noil Angelo, one of the security officers at the game, agreed.

"Parents sometimes get too excited about the games," he said. "They need to control themselves."

The California Interscholastic Federation's rule for students involved in game fights is to bench them for the next two games of whatever sport they participate in.

That meant some Fremont softball players sat out their first two games. It was unclear which girls sports, if any, were affected by suspensions at Oakland High.