Posted on 04/16/2007 7:34:18 AM PDT by Flavius
Pittsford (AP) - Funeral services will be held Monday for a high school freshman who died after being struck in the head with a lacrosse ball.
Jeff Milano-Johnson, 14, died Thursday. He was struck in the back of the head with a ball during warm-up drills before a game on Wednesday.
He was a freshman at Pittsford Sutherland High School near Rochester.
A "Celebration of Life" will be from 4 to 7 pm in the gymnasium at the Church of the Transfiguration in Pittsford. A service of Christian Burial will be held at noon on Tuesday at the same church.
Members of U.S. Lacrosse are honoring Jeff by creating decals with his name and jersey number, 23. The idea is for the players to put the decals on their helmets.
Would be ironic
if his parents encouraged
him to play lacrosse
instead of something
dangerous like hockey or
football. Giant Oops!
Slightly softer than a hockey puck is right and one of our coaches remembers seeing a player from Syracuse that shot the ball through the net....it did not bounce off the net but it actually tore a hole in the net....the ball is hard a flies fast....
And you, being an intelligent person, are well aware of the probable answers to that question. So why bring something up which is not relevent to the boys death?
Sorry, perhaps you did not intend it that way, but what I am reading into your comment is probably the same thing that many others will read into it.
Which is why I requested that you not read anything into it.
On FR, I am astoundingly literal. What I type is what I mean.
Perhaps he actually died from a subdural hematoma. Could have been the result from a pre-existing vascular abnormality.
Regardless of the cause, a tragedy for all involved.
A LaCrosse ball is a solid rubber ball, roughly the size of a tennis ball that is THROWN, not "hit".
What a shame. Prayers for his family.
Essentially it is like a ball of very dense concrete, only bounces slightly better.
I didn’t know that. I guess I always sort of assumed that they were sort of the consistency of a hockey ball (a relatively light, non-bouncy, air-filled ball), or something like that. But then there’d be no need for a goalie to wear the gear that they do if that was the case.
This boy was hit it the heart at an angle the doctors described as a fluke.
Very tragic for his school, so much so they created a fund raiser on his behalf to support juvenile diabetes research .
Good grief. What an inane comment.
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
Only slightly softer than a hockey puck.
Weighs 5-5.5 ounces, which is a LOT at 60 mph.
Weighs about the same as a baseball, but is somewhat smaller, and doesn’t have all the compressible wool wrapping and cork core the baseball has.
Think Sears Craftsman rubber mallet.
A couple of months ago, a high school baseball player here in the Dallas-area was killed by a baseball during warmups.
Yep, I am surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
Would that you had spared us your comment.
What a terrible tragedy. Prayers for his family.
What, I’m not allowed to ponder the interesting but irrelevant?
That’s a strange drill, that allows for a kid to be hit in the back of the head by accident.
I got hit in the mouth by a lacrosse ball when I was in high school. I was throwing the ball in the air and catching it, and I lost the ball in the sun and never saw it coming back down. I ran in the house to look in the mirror to see if my teeth were broken. They weren’t but they have hair line fractures in the enamel, on bothe the upper and lower incisors.
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