NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – A high school football player on a weekend recruiting trip to Merrimack College in Massachusetts has been accused of raping a female student after a chance meeting on the campus quad.

Jamad Thomas, 18, of East Orange, New Jersey, was arraigned in court Monday afternoon on the rape charge. He was released on $20,000 cash bail and ordered to stay off the campus and have no contact with his accuser.

The police investigation report gave conflicting accounts from Thomas and the student over what happened.

The student told officers she and a friend were approached by Thomas, who appeared lost, while walking back to their dormitory at 1:05 a.m. Sunday. She said they invited him to “hang” with them at their dormitory room, the police report said.

At some point, the student told police, she used the men’s bathroom across the hall, and asked Thomas to stand guard outside, but that he followed her inside and raped her. She said she later told a male friend and the friend called campus police.

Thomas told police he agreed to stand guard outside the men’s room door, but the student invited him inside and they had consensual sex in a bathroom stall. He told police two of the student’s friends later came into the bathroom to ask if she was “good,” and that she replied “she was good and not to worry about her because she was fine.”

The police report said both students admitted they had been drinking earlier that night.

Thomas’ attorney, Benjamin Faulkner, said his client “asserts his innocence completely and believes when the facts show themselves in court, his innocence will be proven.”

Faulkner said Thomas graduated in 2015 from a New Jersey high school, where he starred in football, and had recently completed studies at East Coast Prep School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Merrimack is a 3,000-student Catholic college located in North Andover, 25 miles north of Boston. It was founded in 1947 by the Saint Augustine religious order.

Details for this story were provided by The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.