Five Injured by Falling Batting Cage in Gym

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It wasn’t the action on the court that got fans’ hearts pumping at a high school summer volleyball match held at Goshen College Recreational-Fitness Center in Indiana this past Monday.

Roger Schneider | The Goshen NewsJust before a match was scheduled to start, the steel cables of a ceiling-suspended baseball cage broke, causing the structure to fall onto a section of bleachers. 

"There was a large pop and then one of the sides came down and there was more pops and then I saw the nets coming down,” Goshen student Sam Heberling told Goshen News. “I was reffing on that court. I was under it. It came down on me. It hit me in the hand and wrist and it is a little sore.” 

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