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Soft-Brawl: Grown Men Fight At Tenn. Softball Tournament (WATCH)

An argument during a softball game at a Cookeville tournament erupted into a post-game brawl caught on video.

COOKEVILLE, TN -- An in-game dispute grew into a brawl in Cookeville over the weekend.

"She came at him with a bat!" one person says in the video - which contains other, more graphic descriptions - posted on the "Make Softball Great Again" Facebook page.

Two teams - one from Tennessee and another from Cincinnati - playing in an adult slow-pitch softball tournament at Cookeville's Cane Creek SportsPlex couldn't leave it on the field, throwing punches and tossing one another to and fro.

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Michelle Howard, who was keeping score at a nearby game, told Cincinnati's Fox 19 the fight began after members of one team were ejected from a game for using profanity.

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"I witnessed four guys get knocked out, sucker-punched -- one guy got hit with a bat," she told the station. "One guy was threatening to go get a gun and kill people. It ended up with three different teams all involved."

Police were called, but no one was arrested. Several people, including the man who was hit in the back with a bat, were hurt.

The teams involved were expelled from the tournament.

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