Connors State College basketball player Ethan Dietz dies after in-game injury

A Connors State School basketball participant died after struggling a head damage in the course of the recreation, college officers mentioned.

Sophomore Ethan Dietz died Tuesday, the college mentioned a statement posted on his Fb web page.

College spokesperson Shannon Rigsby mentioned preliminary studies point out Dietz suffered some type of head damage.

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The ball falls by means of the ring in the course of the third quarter of a Mid-American Convention common season ladies’s basketball recreation between the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks and the Toledo Rockets on January 25, 2023 at Savage Area in Toledo, Ohio. (Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs)

“The Cowboy household has suffered an unimaginable loss. As you understand, sophomore Ethan Dietz was injured throughout a males’s basketball recreation on Saturday. He handed away this morning, November 25,” the college’s assertion mentioned.

“Ethan exemplified what it means to be a Cowboy, to worth exhausting work and to be a part of a workforce. Because the workforce and the Cowboy group course of our personal grief, our ideas exit to his household and associates.

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A number of matches had been canceled after Dietz’s dying. (iStock)

“The lack of Ethan reminds us all how treasured life is and the way a lot of an affect the individuals round us have on our lives. As we course of this loss collectively as a group, we’re impressed by Ethan’s spirit, friendship and love.”

A number of males’s and girls’s faculty basketball video games had been canceled after Dietz’s dying.

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Dietz averaged 11 factors per recreation. (iStock)

Dietz was a 6-foot-4 ahead from Vilonia, Arkansas, who averaged 11 factors per recreation by means of eight video games this season. He had eight factors and 4 rebounds in 20 minutes on Saturday earlier than getting injured.

A vigil in his honor is deliberate for December 1 on the college’s campus in Warner, Oklahoma.

The Related Press contributed to this report.