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WARNER, Okla. (AP) — A basketball participant at a junior school in Oklahoma who was injured throughout a sport has died, college officers stated.
Connors State School sophomore Ethan Dietz died Tuesday after he was injured throughout the second half of a sport Saturday in Texas, the varsity stated in an announcement posted to its Fb web page. A spokesperson for the faculty, Shannon Rigsby, stated preliminary reviews point out Dietz suffered some sort of head harm, however that she didn’t have any extra info.
“Ethan exemplified what it means to be a Cowboy, to worth arduous work and being a part of a staff,” in line with the assertion from the varsity. “Whereas the staff and the Cowboy group are processing our personal grief, our hearts exit to his household and mates.”
Messages searching for remark have been left Wednesday with the faculty’s athletic director and males’s basketball coach.
A number of of the faculty’s males’s and girls’s basketball video games have been canceled following Dietz’s demise.
Dietz was a 6-foot-8 ahead from Vilonia, Arkansas, who was averaging 11 factors per sport by way of eight video games up to now this season. He had eight factors and 4 rebounds in 20 minutes of taking part in time Saturday earlier than he was injured.
A vigil in his honor was scheduled for Dec. 1 on the school’s campus in Warner, Oklahoma.
