By Carla Zanoni
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
INWOOD — A game held to determine the champions of the Dyckman Basketball tournament was cancelled midway Thursday night after a brawl in the crowd sent people running from the courts, witnesses said.
TnP was ahead of Team 914 33-13, with 18:02 left on the clock when the fight broke up play at the Monsignor Kett Playground, on 204th Street and Nagle Avenue.
Police said they had no report of a fight taking place during the game - they said they did however arrest one person in attendance for smoking marajuana - but Twitter lighted up afterward.
“DYCKMAN HAD A RIOT TONITE. GAME NEVER FINISHED,” Tweeted Inside Street Ball, a basketball blog. Twitter was flooded with people posting messages about the fight and rush to get away from the scene.
Washington Heights resident Rosita Perez, 23, said she ran from the courts when three men started lobbing punches at one another and the crowd swarmed around the men.
“Everyone panicked,” she said. “It was almost a stampede.”
Organizer Isaiah Brown said, "Gentlemen started fighting and ... the crowd began to panic and started exiting the park at the same time causing a huge chaotic scene.
"We could have finished the game but we would have been going against our better judgment."
The teams were scheduled to resume the tournament match Friday night at 7 p.m.
