The Northville Central School District announced the firing of high school girls basketball head coach Jim Zullo on Friday night, following a postgame incident with one of the Northville players. The incident occurred following Northville’s loss in the Class D state championship game.

A high school in upstate New York fired its Hall of Fame girls basketball coach over the weekend after he violently yanked the ponytail of his star player and then appeared to berate her following an emotional loss.

The coach of the girls’ varsity team in Northville, N.Y., was caught yanking a player’s hair on a television broadcast of a championship game on Friday.