GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut Tenth-grade hockey participant has died after falling to the ice and being lower at the neck by means of the skate of any other participant right through a recreation, college officers and police mentioned.
The coincidence happened Thursday because the junior varsity workforce on the Brunswick college, a school preparatory college for boys in Greenwich, performed St. Luke’s Faculty, a personal co-educational college from New Canaan.
St. Luke’s known the participant Friday as Teddy Balkind. He fell to the ice and the opposite participant used to be not able to prevent and collided with him, Greenwich Police Capt. Mark Zuccerella mentioned Friday.
Brunswick Head of Faculty Thomas Philip mentioned in a commentary that Balkind suffered a lower to his neck. He mentioned those that have been on the recreation described the play as “totally customary and unremarkable within the recreation of hockey.”
“I need to commend our clinical, training and safety workforce for all that they did in essentially the most horrible of instances to maintain the boy till the ambulance arrived,” Philip wrote.
No categories have been hung on Friday on account of a storm from snow, however St. Luke’s Head of Faculty Mark Davis mentioned the development could be open within the afternoon in order that the group may just acquire to grieve.
“There aren’t any phrases ok to this second, and I do know all folks will fortify each and every different as best possible as we will,” he mentioned.