Hours after winning their conference championship Saturday, two LaGrange College baseball players were among three people killed in a car crash in Georgia.
Freshman pitchers Stephen Bartolotta, 18, and Jacob Brown, 19, died in the crash, Troup County Coroner Erin Hackley confirmed to USA TODAY. Rico Dunn, 24, was in another vehicle and was the third victim killed in the head-on collision.
The deaths of the two players came hours after LaGrange College defeated North Carolina Wesleyan 10–7 on Saturday to win a best-of-three series. The win gave the Panthers a fifth consecutive USA South championship and an automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Baseball tournament.