The Puerto Rico Women’s Superior Basketball League (BSNF), through tournament director Fernando Quiñones, imposed disciplinary sanctions over the violence during and after the quarterfinal playoff game between the Explosivas de Moca and the Criollas de Caguas at the Coliseo Dr. Juan Sánchez Acevedo in Moca on the night of Tuesday, November 10. Caguas won 78-72 to take a 2-0 series lead.
After the game, confrontations and assaults culminated in numerous fans entering the court, endangering both teams and officials; the Puerto Rico Police reported one person injured with an open head wound. Caguas coach Xavier Aponte got a $100 fine for a fourth-quarter technical and, for his postgame argument with Moca coach Leonel Avilés, a one-game suspension and an additional $250 fine; Avilés got the same for the argument.
Moca’s Sonia Román (No. 13) got a one-game suspension and $150 fine for pushing co-owner Omar Vargas. Cierra Burdick (No. 28, Moca) got one game and $150 for throwing a ball that hit Aponte in the head, plus a discretionary extra game and $500, totaling two games and $650. Natasha Alequín (No. 7, Moca) got the harshest penalty, the rest of the 2026 season and the first five games of 2027 plus a $1,000 fine, for punching Vargas in the face without response.
The league found Vargas did not physically attack Burdick, did not start the later assaults and did not respond to Alequín, and that later physical interventions against spectators came as he and Caguas operations manager Cindy Nieves faced assaults without adequate protection from local security; still, his initial confrontation with the player intensified the situation. He is barred from the bench, court and restricted areas for the rest of the 2026 quarterfinal series and fined $500.
Moca assistant Ivaniel Hernández got three games and $400. Moca was fined $500 for each of four Rule 6.4(i) failures (protecting referees during removal of hostile spectators, preventing expelled people from re-entering, controlling court access after the game, and security and evacuation routes for visiting staff), totaling $2,000. Under article 7.19, the Coliseo is ordered closed for BSNF games for the rest of 2026 and Moca’s first three home games of 2027.