BROCKTON (AP) – The second of two Bridgewater State College students pleaded innocent to a murder charge in the stabbing death of a 27-year-old alumnus at a bar near campus.

Wearing a cast over two fingers nearly severed in a knife fight, James Bing, 19, of Easton, was ordered held without bail by Judge Richard Savignano. Ben Dreyer, 19, of Northampton, was arraigned Monday and also ordered held without bail.

Both are charged with killing Jody Martyniak, 27, of Raynham, following a fight last week at Our Place Saloon. Bing and Dreyer are due back in court on Feb. 27.

Prosecutors said the fight began inside the bar over a comment Martyniak made about Dreyer’s girlfriend and that it spilled outside. Martyniak suffered seven stab wounds to the chest and head, prosecutors said, including one that penetrated his heart.

Dreyer and Bing are both freshmen at Bridgewater State College. Martyniak, a communications major, graduated from the school in 2002.

Bing was a high school basketball star at Oliver Ames High School in Easton, where he was named the league’s most valuable player.

He was arrested Friday afternoon at a Boston hospital where he’d gone for treatment of hand injuries. Dreyer was arrested later Friday at his home.

Riding in an ambulance at the same time that Martyniak’s body was being taken to Brockton Hospital in another, Bing told police that he hurt his hand fending off a knife attack. Prosecutor Dan Hourihan said two of Bing’s fingers were nearly severed.

-Associated Press