Mass Hockey overturns Lynn Youth Hockey’s decision to suspend twin 9-year-olds

LYNN – Mass Hockey has ruled that Lynn Youth Hockey was wrong to suspend two 9-year-old twins after their mother, Holly Foglietta, filed a complaint with the league about the alleged conduct of the boys’ coach, Bill Norcross.Mass Hockey in a four-page decision “reversed and rescinded” Lynn Youth Hockey’s decision to forbid Austin and William Foglietta from playing in the league and to bar their parents n Holly and Bill Foglietta n from league games.The Salem parents first told The Daily Item that Norcross screamed at Austin Foglietta during a Jan. 21 game in Tewksbury, and then later threw a bag of pucks at the twins’ brother.?Lynn Youth Hockey violated the bylaws, rules, regulations of Massachusetts Hockey and USA Hockey when it suspended/ expelled William and Austin Foglietta from their squirt team without a hearing,” Jeffrey S. Brown, Chairman of Mass Hockey’s Discipline Committee wrote in the decision.Read the complete story in Tuesday’s Daily Item.