Grapevine baseball player suffers head injury
05:35 AM CST on Friday, February 23, 2007
From Staff Reports
A Grapevine High School baseball player was hospitalized after suffering a head injury before a double-header Thursday afternoon at the campus.
The varsity player, who hasn't been identified, was hit by a line-drive batted baseball shortly before 2 p.m., according to Grapevine Police Sgt. Bob Murphy.
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WFAA-TV's Craig Civale reports
The injured player was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. His condition was not available.
The school's baseball games were canceled for the day. Several Grapevine High School officials declined to comment.
Phone calls placed to the school district's spokesperson were not returned.
"It's kind of one of those freaky bounce things," said Tracy Evatt, president of the Grapevine High baseball team's Tenth Man Club. "He was sitting up and was alert and conscious. They put an ice pack on him. He kind of blacked out again."
Marissa Alanis This was the preliminary coverage by the Dallas Morning News today. Evidently the players were warming up in the batting cages and a batted ball went through holes in two of the protective nets and hit the young man in the back of the head where it joins his neck. He was sitting up and conscious at first but blacked out and was taken to Parkland Hospital ( Dallas trauma center) and is listed in grave condition. We need to pray for this young man.
Thank God for BB&B and the many people who donated the money to relace the worn out batting cage nets at JC Love.