There was no heroes' welcome for a group of costumed college students who raced across a high school soccer game in Cleveland.

The six men behind the masks — Spider-Man, a ninja and four Power Rangers — were arrested and charged Tuesday with disrupting or interfering with a school function.

"We were all young ... you throw a can at a sign or you knock a mailbox over," said Capt. Jim Couch, spokesman for White County Sheriff's Office. "But when you do something like this and you're (that) old and you disrupt a ballgame, that's just not right."

In all, eight Truett-McConnell College students were booked into White County Detention Center for their alleged roles in a joke aimed mainly at the Gainesville High School girls' soccer team.

The incident took place around 8:30 p.m., minutes before halftime, coaches said, with the host White County High School team and Gainesville tied at 1-1.

The suspects - Josh and Kevin Kesler of Nicholson, Josh Stanley of Duluth, Wade Scott of Canon, Branson Sanders of Cornelia and Christopher Parks of Commerce — jumped over a fence, ran across the soccer field and approached Gainesville's goalkeeper, paused to exchange a proposal, then kept running, according to deputy and witness reports.

"(It) distract(ed) me from my game of play, caused extreme chaos for me and my team," the Gainesville player wrote in her statement to deputies. "Words said were meant to be funny, but weren't. ‘May I please take your hand in marriage?' "

Gainesville coach Mark Wade viewed the scene as a "childish joke" on Wednesday. But at the time he pictured a worst case scenario playing out instead of a soccer game.

"You look back at your keeper and there are a bunch of people surrounding her. I was scared for her safety," Wade said. "You immediately start thinking about the bad things you see on TV."

Wade gave credit to White County High's administrators, coaches and even students who pursued the suspects after they quickly dashed over another fence and into a wooded area.

Most of the suspects were taken into custody behind a log cabin by the school's baseball field, reports said. Another was found, still clad in his Spider-Man suit in the backseat of a vehicle being operated by female accomplices, deputies reported.

Jessica Porter of Gainesville and Ashley Kirkman of Lilburn were also arrested for their roles in dropping off and attempting to pick-up the mischievous heroes in Porter's white Jeep Liberty, deputies said. All the suspects were between ages 18 and 22, according to reports.

"All six male subjects were dressed in various superhero costumes and stated that they had ran out on the field as a prank and that they were bored," the report said.

The soccer game resumed a short time after the spectacle and ended in overtime with White County winning the match, 2-1.

"It's a scary incident for a player when someone charges the field because you don't know what to do," said White County coach Nathan Adams. "It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in a sport event. They were completely covered, masks, all the way down to their feet."