As the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association’s Disciplinary Committee continues to come down hard on teams for use of ineligible players, Innswood High and Kellits High have found themselves on the bitter end of the whip.

Following investigations and a meeting on Friday, ISSA’s Disciplinary Committee in a release said both teams were found to have used ineligible players in their respective competitions and their actions were met with severe punishments.

Both the St Catherine-based Innswood and Kellits, situated in Clarendon, have been booted from the remainder of this year’s Digicel Manning Cup and Wata DaCosta Cup competitions and have also been barred from participating in next year’s staging.

However, ISSA’s release pointed out that the suspension only applies to the Manning and DaCosta Cup Competitions.

“ISSA will continue its investigation into the breaches committed by both schools and where applicable, apply appropriate sanction(s) to any individual(s) found to be complicit in this matter,” the statement said.

Unlike Jamaica College and Hydel, who were both docked three points and placed on a three-year probation, for a similar offence, ISSA’s competitions director Ewan Scott clarified that the cases presented different scenarios.

He explained that in the case of Jamaica College, the player was registered but did not meet eligibility criteria, while Hydel’s case was one in which the player’s registration, though incomplete, was allowed to play based on the school’s misinterpretation of the rules.

“For cases three and four (Innswood and Kellits), the players are not registered nor eligible to play, but fraudulently presented identification to participate. Clearly the same punishment could not be applicable in all cases,” he shared.