Local News in Brief : Tustin : 2 of 7 Girl Lightning Victims Are Discharged

Two of the seven young softball players struck by lightning Saturday morning were discharged from hospitals while the others were reported in good condition Monday.

The girls suffered second- and third-degree burns when the lightning struck an oak tree in a softball field before a game at Edgewood Elementary School on Lassen Drive in Tustin.

Kaylee Whitfield, 9, has been discharged from Childrens Hospital of Orange County. Teammates Tiffany Thompson, also 9, and Beth Carrillo and Katie Maggard, both 8, have been transferred out of the critical-care unit of that hospital and are in good condition.

Wendy Ann Meyers, 10, was discharged from Western Medical Center in Santa Ana, while Julie Throckmorton, also 10, and Theresa Farnum, 8, were listed in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The girls in Western were visited Sunday by former Angels baseball player Rod Carew. Pediatrics head Debbie Simpson said Carew “left them pictures and baseballs and all that good stuff.”

The girls were warming up for a softball game in the Tustin Bobby Sox League, a 31-team organization for girls ages 5-15 in Tustin, Orange and Santa Ana.