2 college baseball players whose team just won championship killed in head-on crash in Georgia

Two LaGrange College baseball players whose team had just won a conference tournament championship were among three people killed in a head-on crash in west Georgia, authorities said.

Jacob Brown, 19, of Duluth, Georgia, and Stephen Bartolotta, 18, of Palm City, Florida, died in the crash on Saturday, the college said in a statement. The wreck happened hours after LaGrange won a fifth straight USA South Tournament title with a 10-7 victory over North Carolina Wesleyan University.

LaGrange College President Susanna Baxter said the deaths of Brown and Bartolotta, who both were freshman pitchers, hit members of the baseball team particularly hard.