Baseball team home after deadly crash
From Times Wire Reports
Players on Bluffton University’s baseball team and their parents returned home, two days after a bus plunged off a roadway in Georgia and claimed the lives of four of their teammates and two others.
The father of deceased player David Betts wore the baseball cap his son had on the morning of the crash when he stepped off a charter flight at Toledo Express Airport. Since the accident, he said, he has spent a lot of time telling the players who came away with only minor injuries that “it was OK that they survived.”
About 30 people walked off the plane -- one player limping, another with his arm in a sling -- and greeted those waiting on the tarmac with hugs. A hearse drove to the back of the plane to transport two players’ bodies.