It started out as a scene that plays out on youth softball fields across the nation every spring and summer.
After a tournament game Saturday at Dalton’s Heritage Point Regional Park, the two teams, composed of 7- to 8-year-old girls, lined up to tell each other “good game,” according to video of the event and one of the tournament directors.
Then the situation took a turn that is anything but normal for youth softball.
Meredith Haskew Grant was arrested for alleged battery by the Dalton Police Department after video caught on GameChanger, an app for streaming and recording baseball and softball games, showed Grant shoving, pulling hair and punching the opposing team’s coaches, according to an arrest report from the Dalton Police Department.