( CNN ) -- A preliminary investigation is under way into an altercation that left a high school football coach hospitalized with severe facial injuries after a Georgia football game , a sheriff 's investigator told CNN on Tuesday . Inspector Ricky Brown of the Hancock County Sheriff 's Department said initial interviews are being conducted into the incident , which occurred Friday night in Sparta between players from Hancock Central and Warren County high schools . Warren County head coach David Daniel was released Monday from an Augusta hospital after surgery to repair broken bones around his right eye , cheek and nose , said Warren County Superintendent Jean Carey . She told CNN he suffered crushed facial and ear bones and an irreparable injury to one of his tear ducts . Carey said Daniel was struck on the side of his head by a helmet when he tried to intervene in the fight , which occurred after Warren County , the visiting team , defeated Hancock Central 21-2 . Carey said Hancock Central players attacked Warren County players as they were trying to get into their locker room , which was locked . Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead told CNN that Carey had contacted the regional investigative office in Thomson , which covers Warren County , asking that the state agency investigate . `` However , the incident venue is in Hancock County , not Warren County and , under Georgia law a school superintendent can not initiate a GBI investigation , '' Bankhead said . `` That request would have to come from the Hancock County Sheriff 's Office , who is investigating this incident , '' Bankhead said . Carey told CNN that Daniel `` wants to come back to school and focus on ( this Friday 's ) game right now . But he 's got to take care of himself first . '' She added , `` All of Warrenton is just real upset . '' Daniel was promoted from defensive coordinator to head coach the week of the first game this season , after Marleau Blount , a Warren County alumnus , resigned under pressure for having practices with players who had not completed physicals . Blount is now Hancock Central 's defensive coordinator . `` It was real unfortunate , '' Blount told the Augusta Chronicle . `` I 'm upset at everything . '' Sporting events between the schools have been canceled for the rest of the academic year , the Warren County superintendent said . The two schools , which are about 25 miles apart in east-central Georgia , west of Augusta , are members of the same conference . CNN 's Chris Youd contributed to this report .
David Daniel , coach of the visiting team , suffered severe facial injuries in the fight . - The referee was not allowed to see replays and didn't know what happened until after the match had ended.