Naugatuck High football fined for violations

CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) — Naugatuck High School's football program has been fined $7,500 and placed on two years of probation for improper payments made to the families of three prospective transfer students.

The three players from Sacred Heart High School also have been banned from playing in the first four games of this season.

The Waterbury Republican-American reports the penalties were approved Thursday by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference.

Investigators say former coach Rob Plasky and Frank Johnson Jr., the football booster club president gave one player's family $1,000 to help facilitate a transfer, and paid $300 for the players to attend a football camp at Central Connecticut State University.

Plasky, who coached at the school for 11 years, resigned in August after the scandal came to light.