Top-ranked Mater Dei (California) is now 0-1 instead of 1-0 after its was forced to forfeit Friday night’s win over Bishop Amat (California). The news was broken by Steve Fryer of the Orange County Register on Twitter.
Mater Dei has forfeited its game of last week vs. Bishop Amat because MD used an ineligible player in that game. The player is a senior who transferred to Mater Dei. It has been discovered the player already used up his 8 semesters of athletic eligibility @ocvarsity pic.twitter.com/L3yeoeANh4
— Steve Fryer (@SteveFryer) August 22, 2018
Mater Dei principal Pat Murphy said MD will dig deeper into transcripts of its student-athletes to try to avoid having ineligible athletes. “We’re going to put more sets of eyes on it,” Murphy said. (MD forfeited last week’s football win over Bishop Amat, used ineligible player) pic.twitter.com/hYrV6pKuZM
— Steve Fryer (@SteveFryer) August 22, 2018
Since those two tweets, Fryer has written a story that contains a statement from Murphy that reads as follows:
“The player in question was admitted to MDHS as a result of academic official transcripts which indicated that this Fall season would be his 7th semester of high school enrollment. However, in the process of reviewing this student-athlete’s NCAA eligibility requirements, Mater Dei High School discovered additional academic transcripts from his native country (not the United States). These new transcripts indicate that this is actually the student’s 9th semester of high school enrollment which makes him ineligible to participate in CIF athletic competition.”
The name of the player was is ineligible hasn’t been released.
