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Middle schooler dies after basketball game

The Associated Press
11/21/02 8:12 PM


SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy collapsed and died after he fell during a middle-school basketball game.

Gordon Matthew Gantt Jr. was helped off the court after falling in Wednesday night's game. He gave a "thumbs-up" sign to his parents and went for a drink of water and later returned to the bench. But after the game he collapsed and was airlifted to University Hospital.

A preliminary report from the Bexar County medical examiner's office said the boy died of complications from liver lacerations in an area of a malignant tumor, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

"It was not until after the game that he experienced the problem," Cole Junior High assistant principal Linda Monk told San Antonio's WOAI-TV.

Gantt's family had moved to San Antonio from Fort Polk, La., about a month ago.


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