McDonald coach, league face suit over injury

WARREN — A McDonald man acknowledges he hit a softball that struck a young girl in the head during a practice he was coaching two years ago.

He says he feels terrible about hurting the girl and is pretty sure she quit playing softball because of the injury.

Last week, the girl and her mother filed a lawsuit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court against Sean Murphy, the McDonald youth baseball and softball league, and the former league president for their roles in the accident.

“I didn’t swing with all my might, thank God. It just happened. It wasn’t intentional or anything like that,” Murphy said outside his Annabelle Avenue home this week when asked about the accident that occurred in the village’s Woodland Park fields.

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