ELLSWORTH, Wis. – A Wisconsin student faces a felony battery charge after he allegedly broke a classmate’s face during a heated dodgeball game in October.

Ellsworth High School student Jacob Sigler, 18, was charged with a single count of substantial battery last month over a fight with a classmate during a game of dodgeball Oct. 11, InForum reports.

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The 16-year-old victim told Ellsworth police he was playing dodgeball during gym class when Sigler and three other students targeted him with several balls. The student said he returned one of the balls at Sigler, who threw several back before he “closed his fist and punched (the victim) in the face,” according to the complaint.

The students were hauled to the principal’s office after the incident and a CT scan later revealed the victim suffered a facial fracture, the boy’s mother told police. The injured student said he’d had problems with Sigler in the past.

When police confronted Sigler, “he said the preceding dodgeball volleys were ‘a friendly fight, just a competitive game of dodgeball,’” and alleged his classmate was the aggressor, according to the news site.

“He said he was struck from about 2- or 3-feet away in the face when he wasn’t looking by a ball thrown by the victim, which he thought was excessive,” InForum reports.

Sigler told police the game then got “really heated” and he thought his classmate was preparing to tackle him so “I punched him,” according to the police report.

He also disputed the claim that the two had quarreled in the past.

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“I don’t have a problem with him now,” Sigler allegedly told police. “Just at that moment, I had a problem with him.”

Wisconsin statute 940.19 classifies substantial battery as a Class I felony. The charge carries up to a $10,000 fine and or a prison sentence of up to three years and six months, according to CriminalDefenseLawyer.com.

Sigler was charged on Dec. 15, and is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 3, InForum reports.