The two freshman pitchers from LaGrange College had been celebrating a major win with their team just prior to the crash.
A Georgia university is in mourning after the sudden deaths of two student-athletes who recently helped the school win a title. Stephen Bartolotta and Jacob Brown, freshman pitchers at LaGrange University, were killed in a car crash on Saturday, only hours after their team, the Panthers, won the conference championship. The team defeated North Carolina Wesleyan and won its way into the NCAA Division III national championship, according to 11 Alive News. The pair had been celebrating with the rest of the team before the crash took place. Georgia State Patrol responded to the incident at around 9:15 p.m. local time, finding that three vehicles had been involved in the crash. Alongside Bartolotta and Brown, the Troup County coroner confirmed one other death caused by the crash, that of 24-year-old Rico Dunn.
