Allegations are latest in series of racial incidents involving district schools
Justin Murphy – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 10/2/21
Pittsford Mendon High School students and fans are accused of using racist slurs against Black opponents during boys and girls soccer games against Greece Arcadia earlier this week, the latest embarrassing episode for Pittsford.
The incidents are said to have happened Tuesday during the boys soccer game and on Wednesday during the girls soccer game, just as other Pittsford students were organizing an antiracism protest. Both games took place at Pittsford Mendon.
On Tuesday, fans at the boys soccer game are said to have made monkey sounds toward Black Greece Arcadia players.
In an email Friday evening, the Greece Arcadia boys soccer coach, Matt Vergamini, stressed that the Pittsford Mendon players were not the ones at fault.