In Chicago the scheduled Saturday baseball game between Walter Payton College Prep and Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep was canceled at the last minute and some are blaming the cancelation on racism.

According to ABC News Payton forfeited the game on Saturday to which Brooks coaches said they were told that Payton parents would not let their children travel to the South Side school because they felt it was in an unsafe neighborhood to be in at night.

"The parents didn't want to come down here due to the neighborhood we were in," Brooks' assistant baseball coach Bert Redmond said.

According to Redmond, the Payton coach actually came down to the South Side to apologize for the parents' behavior.

"They were in fear of their child's lives. They were afraid of being in a drive by shooting. I was kind of appalled."

However the Principal of Payton and an a Chicago Public School spokesperson have spoken out to say racism is not the case, Payton Principal Tim Devine stated, "There were other, less salacious, causes for the game's cancellation."

According to the Chicago Tribune the principal wrote in an email to the Walter Payton College Preparatory High School community that, "the reasons for the cancellation stem from leadership issues within the baseball program."

CPS officials said that the reason the team did not make the game is because parents and teammates were not informed of the game until the last minute and there was no transportation provided for the team.

Walter Payton College Prep is on the Near North Side, in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood. Brooks, also a CPS school, is in the Far South Side's Roseland neighborhood.

One Brook's parent, James Jordan said, "its elite kids going to both schools so I can't see why they feel the need to say their kids are better."

Both of the principles released a joint statement in which they said, "this has been a very unfortunate misunderstanding between our school communities. It is time to move past this and allow our student athletes to focus on their futures. We look forward to both of our schools meeting on the field again soon."