Jeremy Medina, a pitcher and catcher for the Gainesville High School baseball team, was accidentally hit in the head by a baseball bat on Nov. 20 at the school’s batting cages.

Jeremy Medina, a pitcher and catcher for the Gainesville High School baseball team, was accidentally hit in the head by a baseball bat on Nov. 20 at the school’s batting cages.

An 18-year-old baseball player died in a single-car crash, rattling a “tight-knit” North Carolina community, officials said. William “Blake” Hughes is remembered as a hard-working high school senior ...