A 12-year-old baseball player was critically injured after falling from a bunk bed at a player dormitory in Williamsport, Pa., over the weekend.
Easton Oliverson is a member of the Snow Canyon Little League all-star baseball team — Utah’s first team to reach the Little League World Series.
According to Southern Utah outlet St. George News, Easton got hurt sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning after falling from his top bunk onto a hardwood floor.
After the 6-foot fall, the boy was transported by helicopter to Geisinger Janet Weis Children’s Hospital in nearby Danville, about 35 miles southeast of Williamsport.
The boy’s uncle, Spencer Beck, confirmed the tragic incident in a Facebook post on Monday.
“While living the dream and having the opportunity of a lifetime in Williamsport, last night my little nephew Easton fell off the bunk bed,” Beck wrote.
“He has made it thru a successful surgery and his brain is reacting well. Please keep my little buddy Easton and our family in your prayers,” he added.
The boy suffered fractures to his skull and cheekbone with bleeding between the inside of his skull and the outer covering of the brain, St. George News reported.
He remained in intensive care as of Monday afternoon.
“At the request of his family, Little League International encourages all to join us in keeping the Snow Canyon Little League player and his family in our thoughts and prayers, as we wish for a full and complete recovery,” Little League officials said in a statement Monday.
Easton’s dad Jace Oliverson — who’s an assistant coach for the team — told local television station KSL-TV that he has always been a “firm believer of prayer and the power that comes with it, and I feel like if people continue to rally around us that he will make a full recovery.”
Late Monday afternoon, the team released a statement saying that the kid’s father, Coach O, “expressed his desire for Team Utah to finish what we started and compete and enjoy this amazing experience. … We teach our players to do everything with a purpose — that hasn’t changed. It has perhaps been added to with something far greater than ever.”
According to the statement, the boy’s condition is “critical” but team officials are “optimistic with some of the early signs he has recently shown.”
The Snow Canyon team is scheduled to play its first game on Friday at noon CST.
