Glendale Coach Is Suspended : Junior college baseball: Coots will miss one game because his team had two ejections in WSC play.

Glendale College baseball Coach Steve Coots has been suspended for one game by the Western State Conference in the wake of his team’s brawl with Santa Monica players after a game between the teams this week.

The fight broke out after Santa Monica beat Glendale, 11-10, on Tuesday. Santa Monica police were called to break up the fight but no arrests were made.

Mark Vail of Glendale and Martin Schmidt of Santa Monica were named instigators by the umpires, and each player was suspended for one game. Glendale is scheduled to play Oxnard at home today and Santa Monica is at home against Moorpark.

Assistant Randy Thompson will coach Glendale today.

Jim Sartoris, Glendale athletic director, said Friday that Coots was penalized because a Glendale player was ejected from a game earlier this season for arguing with an umpire.

“The (conference’s) decorum rule has a provision that even if you have two separate ejections, even in separate games, the coach must sit out a game after the second ejection,” Sartoris said. “He’s not sitting out because of anything he did in the Santa Monica game.”

The WSC and the schools are still investigating the cause of the fight in which Glendale outfielder Joby Lewis was kicked in the head. Lewis was taken to a hospital and released later Tuesday night.

WSC Commissioner Aviva Kamin said Friday that she is asking umpires and school officials to help prevent future problems.

“We are calling and sending notes to the (umpires) that they are to enforce the behavior rules more stringently,” Kamin said. “We are going to have the athletic directors meet with their teams and tell them to cool things off.”