Many prayers are needed

I heard about this tonight. Prayers going out.

Just heard about this on the news. A freak accident but nonetheless every parent's worse nightmare. Prayers have already been said and will continue being said...

Will continue to pray for God' merciful healing for that boy. Makes you realize how it could happen to any of our boys.

Our families thoughts and prayers are with this young man and his family....

My prayers are being said for the player, the player's family, the team and all that know this young man...

We are all family when something like this happens so take care all!!!!!!!!!

Prayers sent.

A prayer for God's healing presence.

Prayers to the boy, his family, and his teammates.

This tragic incident was reported to our players and parents after tonights game and all are in our prayers for perfect healing and peace.

prayers sent

Chris is in our prayers along with his family and teammates. Please keep us updated as to how he is doing.

Our family is praying for him also. Our son broke his collar bone last night sliding into home but his prayers are for Chris.

threeboysdad: sending you a PM.

Keeping my prayers going for Chris, his family, his teammates and for the young man who was at bat when this happened I can't imagine what he is going through.....even though it was an accident this has got to be weighing heavily on this young man, he will need our prayers as well.

Here's the latest:

Investigation into baseball accident focuses on netting.

By DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR.
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
GRAPEVINE — A secondary protective screen netting was not in place in a batting cage when a Grapevine pitcher was struck in the back of the head by a line drive, according to a preliminary investigation by the Grapevine-Colleyville school district released Friday.

Chris Gavora, a junior pitcher, remained in grave condition Friday at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas where he was transferred immediately after he was hit by the baseball Thursday afternoon.

Gavora underwent surgery Thursday night, but no other details have been released.

The accident happened as Grapevine High School was warming up for a tournament game.

Gavora was in one of the four batting cages at the Grapevine High School baseball field, pitching to a teammate. He was behind a pitcher’s net, according to a news release by school officials.

Other teammates were in separate batting cages north of Gavora. A teammate in one of the north batting cages hit a line drive that went through an opening in the net, across an open area and through the other batting cage’s opening where Gavora was pitching. The ball hit Gavora’s head. Coaches and trainers who were on the field rushed to Gavora and began to administer first aid, the release stated.

All batting cages at Grapevine and Colleyville Heritage high school as well as the softball fields were being inspected Friday. The softball fields at Cross Timbers Middle School also were inspected.

Officials said the Grapevine High cages would not be used this weekend because of the continuing investigation.

Baseball and softball safety procedures also were being reviewed, according to the release.

Softball and baseball games at those high schools will play their games Friday.

“Our hearts and support have been extended to the family,” said Grapevine-Colleyville school district Superintendent Kay Waggoner. “It is always incredibly difficult when a member of our GCISD family is involved in an accident or injury of any kind, and we are keeping the student and his family, along with teammates, friends, staff and coaches, in our thoughts and prayers.”

A crisis counseling team was at Grapevine High School Friday to assist students and faculty staff. During morning announcements Friday, school officials honored the family with a moment of silence.

Domingo Ramirez Jr., 817-685-3822
ramirez@star-telegram.com

Scary scary incident I must say. Take it for granted way too often: throwing BP to a teammate or friend. My continuous prayers go out for the kid, along with everyone at Jesuit who knows about the incident. It could happen to any one of us. A friend of mine had a similar incident his freshman year, luckily it hit a screen that slowed it down some.

Collikar-son said this afternoon after the Northwest baseball game that Coppell was waiting to enter the dugout for their game. Before they entered, a Coppell player led both teams in prayer for Chris Gavora, his family, teammates, and friends.

Prayers going up from Virginia. There is also a thread about this young man in the General Forum.

All, CobraSon is on the GV Varsity with Chris. While I would not dream of speaking for the family, I'm sure they would appreciate your thoughts and prayers. I will pass this thread along to his family.

Our prayers go out to the the player his parents and his team mates. The same thing happened to my son two weeks ago. He was throwing batting practice and a line drive got through a small tear in the L-screen and hit him in the face. Luckily he only suffered a broken nose and a black eye. They may need to re think using the boys to throw BP. Either that or they may need to wear their batting helmets in there.

sad to read about this hope the young man pulls through.Its amazing how we can all come together to will this man to recovery.If we all realized how strong we could be together we could help out alot more people than we do.

once again I wish this young man the best.

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Originally posted by HSbaseballFan1:
They may need to re think using the boys to throw BP. Either that or they may need to wear their batting helmets in there.

Every player I've seen in the Keller cages all weekend have had their helmets on.