[Always Right]

Very unfortunate accident. Prayers to the family.

[garyhope]

Condolences to the family.

I hope the ball wasn’t hit by a Duke Lacross player driving an SUV.

[MinuteGal]

Was he wearing his helmet....or perhaps wearing an ill-designed helmet?

"Back of the head" sounds like no helmet, eerily reminiscent of the recent "no seat-belt" gubernatorial accident.

Leni

[toast]

The idea is for the players to put the decals on their helmets.

Was the player wearing his helmet?

[OldFriend]

Have a LAX helmet right here and have to wonder if the player was wearing his helmet which is well padded.

How tragic for his family, prayers of course.

[MAexile]

This is terrible! How long are we going to have to wait for Congress to pass common sense lacrosse ball control? /sarc.

[Flavius]

Boy, 14, dies in varsity lacrosse accident
4/12/2007, 7:58 p.m. EDT
The Associated Press

SPENCERPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A 14-year-old lacrosse player died at a Rochester hospital Thursday after being hit in the head by a ball fired by a teammate during a pre-game, warm-up session.

Jeff Milano-Johnson, a high school freshman who plays varsity lacrosse in the Rochester suburb of Pittsford, was retrieving a ball in front of a goal Wednesday when he was accidentally struck in the back of the head just below his helmet, police said.

He was placed on life support in guarded condition at Strong Memorial Hospital before he died Thursday, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported.

[Xenalyte]

Me, I’m curious why a teenage boy has a compound surname. You usually only see that on gender feminists.

[-YYZ-]

Are lacrosse balls very hard? I haven’t got a clue.

[NautiNurse]

Democrat & Chronicle

a ball struck him in the back of the head just below
his helmet during pre-game warm-ups Wednesday.

[kenth]

What a shame. Prayers for his family.

[Clint N. Suhks]

A boy from my son’s high school died from being hit with a lacrosse ball several years ago.

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 .

[Sue Perkick]

What a terrible tragedy. Prayers for his family.

[Eva]

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.