(KLZA)-- One to six years in prison is the sentence issued to a former Peru State College basketball player in Nemaha County, Nebraska District Court. 

25-year-old Jeffland Neverson, from Booklyn, New York was sentenced Wednesday morning for the September, 2016 assault of a Peru State football player. 

Neverson entered a plea of no contest to a charge of assault in April. Originally Neverson was charged with two felony counts.

Two Bobcat football players and another basketball player suffered stab wounds during the incident during a party at a home near the Peru State campus. 

Neverson was allowed credit for 106 days service in jail.  In addition, he must pay courts costs in excess of $1,300.