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College baseball player kicked off team for tweet about Mo'ne Davis

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- A Bloomsburg University baseball player has been dismissed from the team for an offensive Twitter post about Little League World Series star Mo'ne Davis.

The user account belonging to Joey Casselberry had been deactivated as of Saturday night, but screen captures of the tweet show that the player called Davis a "slut" while criticizing news that a Disney Channel movie was being made about Davis.

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Screencap of a tweet (since deleted, along with the account) from Joey Casselberry, former baseball player at Bloomsburg University. CBSSports.com

Casselberry made reference to Davis' loss to Nevada during the LLWS.

Bloomsburg announced the dismissal of the junior first baseman on Twitter. The university in Pennsylvania said it was "deeply saddened" by the player's tweet.

Davis, from Philadelphia, was the first girl to earn a win and pitch a shutout in the LLWS last summer, and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

According to CBSSports.com, Casselberry, a junior first baseman, had been batting .389 for the 2015 season with two home runs in 18 at-bats.

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