Edgar Co HS Baseball Player Dies After Being Hit In Head With Baseball

(Edgar Co., IL) — A high school baseball player from Edgar County is dead after being hit in the head by a baseball last week. The Peoria County Coroner’s Office says 15-year-old Chrisman High School sophomore Bentley Wolfe was hit in the head by a line drive during baseball practice. Bentley was pronounced brain dead last Friday. An autopsy showed the teen suffered detrimental head trauma due to blunt force trauma.

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