Two school baseball gamers died in a horrific head-on collision on a Georgia street Saturday hours after their staff received the convention title.
LaGrange Faculty freshmen baseball pitchers Stephen Bartolotta, 18, and Jacob Brown, 19, have been killed within the crash that occurred on Roanoke Highway in LaGrange at about 9:15 p.m., in accordance with Georgia State Patrol.
Brown, who was on the mound for Saturday’s sport, was behind the wheel when he tried to move a automobile in entrance him by crossing the double yellow line, however wound up hanging a pickup truck heading in the wrong way, police mentioned.
The driving force of the pickup truck, Rico Dunn, 24, additionally died within the wreck.
Each Brown and Bartolotta have been pronounced useless on the scene.
Dunn, who had celebrated his sister’s birthday earlier the identical day, in accordance with WSB-TV, was rushed to an space hospital, the place died of his accidents early Sunday morning.
Rico Dunn, the motive force of the pickup truck the gamers crashed into, was additionally killed. GoFundMe
“I’m deeply saddened to make you conscious that we now have suffered the lack of two college students final night time,” LaGrange Faculty President Dr, Susanna Baxter mentioned in a Sunday assertion to the school group. “Baseball gamers Stephen Bartolotta and Jacob Brown have been each killed in a tragic automotive accident.”
The 2 pitchers and their Division III staff, the LaGrange Faculty Panthers, had simply crushed North Carolina Wesleyan for his or her fifth straight USA South Match title. With the victory, the Panthers acquired the automated bid within the upcoming NCAA Division III nationwide event.
“Approaching the heels of the staff’s convention championship win yesterday, this information hits our baseball gamers particularly exhausting,” Baxter mentioned. “There merely aren’t any phrases.”