CHICORA — A summary trial will be held here next month for a youth baseball manager and coach accused of fighting following a playoff game in July.

Gilbert D. Rickert, 50, of Connoquenessing and Thomas W. Fair Jr., 48, of Renfrew are charged with disorderly conduct and harassment, stemming from the altercation July 19 at the Center Township Elementary School ball fields.

Rickert is manager of the Meridian team and Fair is coach of the Center Township team in the Allegheny River League’s Colt division, according to league officials.

The league is chartered with Pony Baseball. The Colt division is for youths ages 15 and 16.

Police and league officials said Rickert and Fair allegedly got into a fight after Meridian defeated Center Township in last month’s playoff game.

Neither man was reportedly hurt but the clash was apparently enough to warrant a call to police, who investigated and a week later filed citations against Rickert and Fair.

Rickert, who is a representative of both the Colt division and the Meridian team, immediately called league President Joel Hansen to tell him of what happened.

“(Rickert) was real apologetic,” Hansen said Tuesday. “He didn’t want it to happen.”

Hansen did not attend the game. He said he has tried unsuccessfully to speak to the Center Township team’s representative to get Fair’s account of what happened.

“This is a youth league so whatever the reason, this shouldn’t have happened,” Hansen said. “I don’t get it.”

Telephone calls to Rickert and Fair seeking comment were not immediately returned.

Hansen said the league has not ruled out disciplinary action against the men. But there is no timetable for when a decision could be made.

“We’re in the process of trying to figure it out,” Hansen said.

“I wasn’t at the game but I heard about it,” Dave Brestensky, the league’s communications director and former president, said Monday. “It surprised me because (Rickert and Fair) are good people. It appears they just got caught up in the heat of the moment.”

The defendants, who previously pleaded not guilty to the charges, are to appear for a summary trial Sept. 12 at the office of District Judge Lewis Stoughton.