A brawl involving two Hawai'i Pop Warner football teams and a team from Baltimore landed one child in an Orlando hospital and led to the families being thrown out of a Walt Disney resort.

Seventy O'ahu residents were asked to leave the Orlando resort at 3 a.m. Saturday following a fight in a video-game arcade that sent a 15-year-old Kahalu'u boy to the hospital with a broken nose, according to family members and Walt Disney Co.

"Emotionally, he was shaken up, and we jumped into the ambulance and physically he was in pain. He is scheduled to see a nose specialist on Friday," said April Kong, Kahulu'u Pop Warner association president who was on the trip and returned to Hono-lulu on Monday night. "It was a pretty scary, awful ordeal to go through. We had no ties with this team (from Baltimore) at all."

Kong was not at the fight but was trying to find out from other parents what happened.

The teams were the Westport Patriots of Baltimore, the Kahalu'u He'eia Broncos and the Wai'anae Tigers.

The brawl broke out in the arcade at about 1 a.m. Saturday and involved an undetermined number of players from the three teams.

Jerry Neuman, president of Pop Warner football in Hawai'i, said he cannot comment other than to say "there was a fight that had taken place while several players were returning to their rooms."

"This is the first time since we've been involved in the national championship that something like this has happened," said Neuman, who was told of the fight by Pop Warner Hawai'i board members who had accompanied the teams.

Neuman said he will talk to Pop Warner national committee members in Philadelphia by phone today.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department sent six units to the scene, and along with Disney security, had the situation settled by 2:20 a.m., according to Jim Solomons, a spokesman with the sheriff's department.

No arrests were made, he said.

The Pop Warner Super Bowl takes place in the first week of December every year in Orlando.

The teams had finished the final day of competition and were preparing to enjoy the weekend in Orlando.

Shortly after the fight, at about 3 a.m., the 70 players and family members from O'ahu as well as families from Baltimore were given written notices from the Walt Disney resort informing them that they had 20 minutes to vacate the property or Orange County sheriff's deputies would be called to remove them.

The notice prompted panic. Entire families, including small children, were awakened and told to gather in the corner of a parking lot as emergency lodging arrangements were made, Kong said.

"It was frantic, trying to find us a place to stay. The little ones were scared just being woken up and pulled out of bed. They were crying and wondering what was going on," said Kong. "We felt abandoned and helpless. We understand they have a no-tolerance rule, but we didn't appreciate how they handled it."

DISNEY POLICY

According to the Walt Disney World Web site, Disney's group package policy includes a provision that if "one or more person(s)" in a party takes part in a violent act, everyone will be forced to leave.

"This was unfortunate, but with thousands of guests staying at the resort, we have to maintain a safe environment for everyone," Jacob DiPietre, a spokes-man for Walt Disney World, said Monday. "All participants were made aware of our strict zero-tolerance policy regarding any physical disturbances. Any teams involved in fighting are subject to disqualification and eviction. We were in direct consultation with both Pop Warner officials and law enforcement throughout the course of the event."

Florida Pop Warner officials did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment yesterday.

ROOMS FOUND BY 4:45

Many people were upset by the way Disney handled the early-morning eviction. Kong was able to find the families rooms at a Holiday Inn by 4:15 a.m. Saturday after organizing a convoy of taxis to transport baggage and people.

"They could have handled it so much better, you know? They really could have," said Labryanna Kubo, a parent traveling with the Hawai'i teams, speaking to Central Florida News Channel 13.

"They could have said, look, you know what? Fine, you guys have to leave in the morning," Kubo said. "Then our babies — we have 1-year-old, 2-year-old, 3-year-olds — that we had to just jerk out of bed and they were just crying. You know it was just a bad scene. It was really a bad scene."

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