Two LaGrange Faculty baseball gamers whose staff had simply gained a convention match championship have been amongst three folks killed in a head-on crash in west Georgia, authorities stated.
Jacob Brown, 19, of Duluth, Georgia, and Stephen Bartolotta, 18, of Palm Metropolis, Florida, died within the crash on Saturday, the faculty stated in an announcement. The wreck occurred hours after LaGrange gained a fifth straight USA South Event title with a 10-7 victory over North Carolina Wesleyan College.
LaGrange Faculty President Susanna Baxter stated the deaths of Brown and Bartolotta, who each have been freshman pitchers, hit members of the baseball staff notably arduous.
"Approaching the heels of the staff's convention championship win yesterday, this information hits our baseball gamers particularly arduous," she stated in an announcement. "There merely aren't any phrases."
The 2 have been in a car that collided with one other car pushed by Rico Dunn, 25, who additionally was killed, WGCL-TV reported. The wreck occurred in Troup County on Georgia 109 when one of many automobiles was making an attempt to go, state troopers stated.
Dunn's brother Nicholos Legon advised WAGA-TV the crash occurred shortly after the household had been celebrating their sister's twenty eighth birthday.
"Rico was a really, very, very, very loving, such as you simply do not perceive how loving a younger man and he actually, actually, actually loved spending time with the youngsters, all his nieces and nephews, taking them out fishing and simply exhibiting them nature and loving life," Legon advised the station.