3 Women's College Basketball Players Arrested, 5 Expelled After Brutal Beating

FAIRFIELD (CBS13) — Three women's college basketball players are behind bars, accused of beating up a student with baseball bats and crowbars.

Solano Community College says the three players have been expelled, along with two others.

Dalana Bluford recognized her attackers as players on the women's basketball team. She says they smashed up her car, and beat her up too.

We met her father, Larry Bluford, at the Fairfield auto shop where workers patched up her daughter's car. The sedan had broken windows and dents.

Dalana has a broken bone near her eye, and her face it cut up and bruised from an apparently vicious attack.

"Right now every time I look at that picture, I want to cry," Larry said. "That's my only little girl, and she means the world to me."

Dalana's right eye is still swollen shut. The Solano Community College student says she went to Allan Whit Park on Monday night to help her friend settle an argument. Instead, she's the one who got jumped.

"I kept saying, 'I didn't know;' I kept repeating that," she said.

The suspects were three members of the women's basketball team—Justice Robinson, Janice Robinson and Kiara Beacham. The trio was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.

Dalana says people she considered close friends brought bats and crowbars.

"We called each other family, and for them to just like watch me get beat and be a part of it is just the sad thing," she said.

Longtime head coach Matt Borchert said off camera that he's never seen such a senseless act of violence in his 15 years.

Athletic Director Erik Visser says he hopes the incident won't overshadow all the good work going on at the school.

"As a community and as an athletic department, we're very saddened," he said.

Larry actually feels lucky that his daughter's injuries aren't worse.

"She's an A student. She's in college, working two jobs. She doesn't do anything to nobody, and nobody's kid deserves this," he said.

Though there have been three arrests, the school says it expelled five players. The Fairfield Police investigation is ongoing.