NCAA sanctions Salem's sports programs

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SALEM, W.Va.: The NCAA punished Salem International University for major violations, putting the Division II school on three years' probation and cutting scholarships in several sports.

The NCAA Division II Committee on Infractions also vacated all games in which ineligible players participated in men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, baseball and women's golf. Scholarship cuts were ordered in these sports.

The committee said Monday the violations occurred from the school years of 2002-03 through 2007-08 school years. The NCAA said the school showed a lack of institutional control and allowed 16 ineligible players to play.

Six soccer players were paid for work they did not perform because the university didn't adequately track work-study hours.

Salem officials didn't thoroughly investigate violations when they were discovered, or when they should have become known, and didn't bar ineligible players from competing, the committee said. Violations weren't reported to the NCAA.


A call to athletic director Keith Bullion on Tuesday was not immediately returned. Bullion also coaches the men's and women's water polo and swim teams. Several other coaches oversee more than one sport. The committee said juggling multiple duties and titles was a "significant part of the issue."

The NCAA said Salem must inform all opponents in writing that the games have been vacated, plus remove all public mention of the vacated games. Salem's probation began Friday and will run through Nov. 20, 2011.

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