LYNN – For the second time in less than a week, a thrilling sporting event involving a Lynn team ended with a postgame pushing and shoving match.Only this time, the players didn’t cause it. The adults did.The fracas ruined a tense, back-and-forth, hard-fought game involving English and Winthrop, with the Bulldogs pulling away at the end for a 68-51 win. However, as Winthrop coach Dave Brown noted, “The game was a lot closer. They kind of pulled away late, but it was a game to that point.”Click here for a photo gallery.The fracas started after the teams had finished their postgame handshake. It was during the handshake, last Wednesday, that hockey players from St. Mary’s and Arlington Catholic staged a brawl that resulted in the ejection (and ultimate suspension) of 10 players – five from each team.This time, the incident began with a heated exchange of words between some of the coaches, and other officials, from both schools. Things rapidly escalated to pushing and shoving on the part of both sides. Athletic directors from both schools, as well as English principal Andy Fila, were involved in trying to calm people down, and additional police were called in to quell the disturbance. However, no arrests were made.Brown and English coach Buzzy Barton made sure to get their players out of the gym and downstairs into their locker rooms.”It’s really too bad that a great game like this had to end the way it did,” Barton said. “That’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen coaching. It was just terrible.”We knew it would be a tough game, physical, hard-fought, and that’s fine,” Barton said. “We warned our kids before the game not to get involved ? and we even pointed to that St. Mary’s hockey game as an example.”Brown, a Lynn native who played basketball for St. Mary’s (and is a Winthrop police officer), agreed.”It was a tough game, but it was clean,” he said. “I didn’t see any cheap stuff, no unnecessary, or rough fouls or anything like that ? no real indication that something like this would happen.”However, Brown said, heated words were exchanged – some of them directed toward him – “and the next thing I know, there’s all this pushing and shoving.”As for the game, Winthrop tested the Bulldogs like no team has thus far this season.”Absolutely,” said Barton. “They’re tops in their division of the Northeastern Conference, and we’re tops in ours, so you knew, coming in, that this would be a battle. And it was.”It didn’t seem as if it would be in the beginning. English ran off to a 20-3 lead after one quarter, and still led, 20-11, midway through the second (though it would be more accurate to say it was English 20, Dino Mallios 11, as the senior guard, who finished with 27 points, scored all of the first 11).”I thought he had a great game,” Brown said. “And I thought we did a great job coming back after coming out flat the way we did.”Winthrop kept chipping away through the rest of the second quarter, and into the third, when – halfway through – Jarred Bingham capped off an 8-0 run with a hoop that gave Winthrop its first – and only – lead of the game (37-36).However, Jarell Byrd hit two free throws, Jordan Rogers followed it up with another, and Ryan Woumn (who finished with 23 points) added a traditional three-pointer to put English back up by six (43-37).English regained control by the beginning of the fourth quarter, going up by 13 (53-40) with 6:27 left.But Winthrop was not about to go away. The Vikings fought back again, and when Robert Swanson swished a three-pointer two minutes later, it was back to being a five-point game (55-50). Winthrop had a chance to cut it down to three, but couldn’t hit free throws, and Keandre Stanton and Woumn came up with back-to-back hoops to make it 59-50 with 1:57 left.From there, it was a matter of undefeated English hitting its free throws.Stanton finished with eight points, and Paradise Hogan had the hot hand from beyond the arc, connecting on all three of his trifectas to add nine points.For W