st johns players expelled.

attgig · 02-06-2004, 11:36 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=1728226

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ESPN.com news services
PITTSBURGH -- St. John's expelled one basketball player and permanently suspended two others Thursday night, hours after a woman was arrested for falsely claiming she was raped by several players she met at a strip club.

After the woman was charged, St. John's said it had expelled senior Grady Reynolds, who was arrested before last season on charges he pushed a female student against a wall.

University athletics spokesman Dominic Scianna said the school also permanently suspended leading scorer Elijah Ingram, a sophomore, and senior Abraham Keita, pending expulsion hearings.

Two other players, freshman Lamont Hamilton and senior Mohammed Diakite, were also suspended, and another player, freshman Tyler Jones, would be disciplined, the school said. The players were not immediately available for comment.

St. John's officials did not describe how the players violated team rules.

Hamilton and Diakite reportedly went to the strip club, but were not involved in the hotel escapade, the New York Daily News reported.

Sherri Ann Urbanek-Bach, 38, of Astoria, N.Y., was charged Thursday night with fictitious reports, attempted extortion and prostitution, hours after she claimed she was raped in a hotel by players she met in a strip club following the Red Storm's 71-51 loss to Pittsburgh on Wednesday night, Pittsburgh police said.

A telephone listing under Urbanek-Bach's name in New York was disconnected and she could not immediately be reached for comment.

According to police, several players went to a club after the game Wednesday night. The woman told police she met the players around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, then went with them to a hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, where she told police she was raped.

According to a New York Daily News report, the players said the woman agreed to have sex with them for $600, but after three players allegedly had sex with her while a student manager and others watched, they refused to pay the woman, at which point she called the police and claimed she had been raped.

Only Urbanek-Bach was charged with a crime on Thursday night, after police examined a recording on one player's cell phone camera, the News reported Friday.

The recording documented threats by the woman to file a rape claim after the players refused to pay her the $600 for sex, police and team sources told the paper. The players reportedly offered to pay the woman $6.

The players, whom police did not identify, were interviewed and released.

"It's a business deal gone bad," a team source told the paper.

St. John's is 5-14. Interim coach Kevin Clark replaced Mike Jarvis on Dec. 19.

St. John's next plays Boston College at home Sunday afternoon.

something doesn't seem quite right here.... perhaps the woman was w/o a pimp...but yeah...

bachviet · 02-06-2004, 02:46 PM

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Originally posted by DarkFury
I guess she didn't realize that most college students are poor...

So it's prostitution if you pay and rape if you don't. Interesting.

I guess 'cauze she didn't enjoy it...

eSDee · 02-06-2004, 06:32 PM

Don't go there.

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