Summit Hill police charged a Tamaqua man after a disturbance at a youth soccer match on the fields behind the Panther Valley High School Saturday afternoon.

Matthew Sitlinger, 44, faces disorderly conduct after he got into a verbal altercation with a referee and was escorted off the field by security, police said.

Sitlinger, a Tamaqua youth soccer coach and soccer league president, then was driving erratically in the parking lot, police said.

A social media post after the incident said a Tamaqua coach got into a heated argument with another coach at a nonschool affiliated match. Reports said the coach also threatened a referee.

The Tamaqua coach left the school property “spinning his tires and doing doughnuts in the parking lot,” the post said.

The incident occurred at 2:40 p.m. Saturday, police said. The investigating officer arrived after the incident and the Tamaqua coach had left the area, police said.

Panther Valley School District Superintendent David McAndrew Jr. said school officials are also looking into the incident, even though it was a nonaffiliated match. The incident took place on school grounds.

“If the allegations that he made threats are true, he will be banned from Panther Valley (School District) property,” McAndrew said.

The school will be waiting for the police to release their report, he said.

Tamaqua Area School District Superintendent Ray Kinder said he was not aware of the incident, but it did not involve any of his district coaches or school property.