Mike Remillard, who coached the Leavitt Hornets to their first and only appearance in the state Class A basketball tournament two years ago, was fired as boys’ varsity coach Wednesday.

Remillard said he was dismissed after meeting with Leavitt Area High School Principal Patrick Hartnett and athletic director Doug Conn on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting came one day after an alleged attack after a game at Morse High School in Bath in which he said he was assaulted by the father of one of his players.

“They asked if I wanted to resign, and I refused to resign,” Remillard said Wednesday night. “I refused because if I resigned, I was giving up on my kids, and I refuse to give up on my kids.”

Hartnett declined comment Wednesday night on whether Remillard had been fired, citing SAD 52 policy.

“I don’t comment on any matters that are personnel matters,” he said.

Remillard said junior varsity coach Christian Gurney had been named as his successor.

Leavitt’s next game is scheduled for Friday night, at home, against unbeaten Edward Little. He said administrators did not refer to the Tuesday night incident when they talked with him Wednesday, but told him he had been let go for “inappropriate conduct and methods on my part” as coach of the team.

According to Remillard, the alleged incident in question took place after Tuesday night’s win over Morse. A father of one of the players, whom Remillard declined to identify beyond saying the man’s son had started earlier in the season but was no longer starting, confronted him in the locker room.

“I had my suit coat in one hand and a duffel bag in the other, and he put two hands on me and shoved me,” said Remillard, who was not injured in the incident. “I backed away, and I said, ‘Get out of here. Get out of here before I have you escorted by police.'”

Remillard said he did talk with a Bath police officer on duty at the game about the incident but did not file charges.

“The officer escorted me to the bus, and I immediately called Doug,” he said.

He added that he has had verbal “run-ins” with the parent in the past. While he initially didn’t intend to press charges, he said he has changed his mind because he feels school administrators are not backing him.

Sgt. Daniel Coutere of the Bath Police Department said Officer Michelle Small responded to a report of an disturbance in the visitors’ locker room. The disturbance was over when she arrived, and she interviewed Remillard and a couple of witnesses, but not the alleged attacker. Small took down several names and plans to follow up when she returns to duty on Friday, he said.

Leavitt is 7-8 this year and 23-47 under Remillard since he took over as coach in 2003. In 2005, the Hornets made it to the quarterfinals of the Eastern Class A tournament, the furthest they’ve gone in the postseason in the program’s history.

Ron Gauthier, whose son Colin is a sophomore who plays both varsity and junior varsity for Leavitt, said the team was informed of Remillard’s firing by Conn and Hartnett at Wednesday night’s practice. He claimed the firing was forced by “vindictive” parents who have been pressuring administrators to get rid of Remillard for some time.

“I think this is a bad mistake and symptomatic of what’s wrong with the athletic program at Leavitt,” Gauthier said. “The parents run the program.”