A 12-year-old baseball player who had just arrived with his Utah team for its first appearance in the Little League World Series, underwent surgery Monday for a severe head injury sustained in a fall from the top bunk of a bed in a dormitory.
that he fell about six feet from the top bunk onto a hardwood floor. A teammate alerted others and Oliverson was taken by helicopter to Geisinger Janet Weis Children’s Hospital in Danville, Pa., with skull and cheekbone fractures as well as bleeding between his skull and the outer covering of his brain, according to the St. George News. It cited a message sent Monday to Snow Canyon parents that said he was in intensive care after successful surgery.
Easton’s father, Jace, is an assistant coach with Snow Canyon, the Mountain Region champions. Parents do not stay with children in the dorms, but exceptions are made if a parent is also a coach. Other members of Easton’s family were en route to Williamsport Monday. “We have been told from his family that his current condition is critical but we are optimistic with some of the early signs he has recently shown,” the team said in a statement Monday afternoon. “We join the family in asking for prayers on his behalf.”
The team’s first game is at 1 p.m. Friday against the winner of Wednesday’s game between Tennessee and Massachusetts. Snow Canyon participated, as scheduled, in Monday’s parade of teams in Williamsport. Spoke to the family of Easton Oliverson who sustained critical injuries after falling from a bunkbed late last night in Williamsport, PA.
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