Tragedy struck San Diego when a 16-year-old died on his birthday after suffering a freak incident in which he was struck in the chest with a softball during high school gym class.

As reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune and Ramona Sentinel, among other sources, Ramona (Ca.) High sophomore Taylor Dorman was struck in the chest with a softball while competing in a game of "Over the Line," a competition which is apparently a sort of modified version of baseball or softball.

Roughly 20 minutes after Dorman was hit with the ball he collapsed while walking across the school's football field. While he was quickly treated on the site, the teen was stabilized but couldn't be completely revived, eventually passing away hours later after being airlifted to a nearby medical center. The Union-Tribune reports that Dorman was in ventricular fibriliation when paramedics arrived and was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat at the hospital.

From the U-T:

According to the Mayo Clinic, ventricular fibrillation causes the heart to stop pumping blood, which cuts off blood supply to vital organs. It is often triggered by a heart attack.

The accident was made all the more tragic in that it occurred on the same day that Dorman was celebrating his 16th birthday, and that his collapse apparently came out of nowhere. While the teen was apparently taken aback by the initial impact of the softball, he showed no signs of being in serious injury in the immediate aftermath of the strike.

The Union-Tribune reported that he even joked with the student who hit the ball that struck him in the chest only minutes before he collapsed for the final time.

Dorman was remembered as one of Ramona's most beloved students by peers who held a candlelight vigil in his memory after word of his death spread. As one might expect, those on site to remember the teen were still struggling to come to grips with his sudden passing.

Prep Rally can only hope that this headline will not serve as the Sports Illustrated curse for what may be the greatest girls lacrosse team of all time. Still, the way that the Owing Mills (Md.) McDonogh High girls lacrosse program is rolling along, no curse in the sports universe may be powerful enough to bring it down.

The McDonogh girls lacrosse team has won a national record 80 consecutive games — Balitmore Sun via Facebook

The McDonogh girls lacrosse team has now won 80 consecutive games. Within two weeks of setting a new national record for consecutive girls lacrosse victories, McDonogh has already won six more games.

The Eagles now stand at 11-0 in 2013, and show no signs of letting up having captured the Fight for 5 Tournament title by routing powerful Ellicott City (Md.) Mt. Hebron Academy, 11-5.

Typically, McDonogh won the tournament with a very balanced attack, getting goals from nine different players in the victory.

Even more impressively, the victory over Mt. Hebron was McDonogh's second of the day; the Eagles had earlier knocked off Manchester (Md.) Manchester Valley, 21-6.

In case you haven’t noticed yet, Jahlil Okafor is wildly entertaining.

Whitney Young star Jahlil White, the world's biggest (size-wise) Pretty Little Liars fan — Rivals.com

The top junior boys basketball prospect in the nation, Okafor is a constant source of honest and unexpected feedback. The junior, who stars for Chicago (Il.) Whitney Young writes a blog for USA Today that is a legitimate must-read.

One week, he’s telling the world that no coaches know how to pronounce his name, the next unwittingly instructing the world about the unseen underbelly of recruiting … like the fact that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is among basketball’s slowest texters.

Or the fact that an Ohio State assistant coach has named a dog after Okafor (if that isn’t some kind of a recruiting violation, it probably should be).

That’s very good info, and it’s clear that it’s only offered up because Okafor just doesn’t care about recruiting as much as other things. Like his favorite show, "Pretty Little Liars."

Yes, that "Pretty Little Liars." The WB sitcom aimed at teenage girls. The show is full of melodrama and character manipulation. And Okafor is right along for the ride.

Throughout the 2012-13 season, Okafor has breathlessly kept his fans up to date on the show as a cap to his relatively frequent blog posts. When the season finale finally came, Okafor was even more excited about the outcome than usual, though such analysis of his comments seems outright banal when compared with Okafor's more enthusiastic reaction.

OK, so you know I’ve gotta give y’all the rundown on my show, Pretty Little Liars.

The season finale was last week and it was crazy!

I just can’t believe what happened. Some girl was supposed to have been dead for the last three years and they ended up seeing her rescuing them out of the fire. It was crazy. It really left me hanging too.

It’s so hard to wait for the next season. Eventually, my thirst for the show will die down, but right now I just can’t wait.

In honor of the National Spelling Bee, and its impending format changes, let's start this story this way:

Flying squirrel; n: 1) a woodlands rodent that leaps between trees at a distance that makes it appear to fly; 2) U.S. Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas; 3) U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Ellis Coleman; 4) The incredible, awe-inspiring wrestling move you see above.

That flip turn, ladies and gentlemen, is one fantastic 'Flying Squirrel'. Even more incredibly, it came in the most dramatic circumstances possible: During the final 10 seconds of a national championship match, with the successful wrestler -- Cheektowaga (N.Y.) High star Renaldo Rodriguez-Spencer -- needing the points he scored with the move to escape with a national title.

As reported by the Buffalo News, Rodriguez-Spencer was in the third period of a junior 138-pound class bout against a Maryland wrestler named Alfred Bannister and was trailing by a score of 4-3. He needed two points to earn a victory which would land him a National Junior Class title in his weight class, and he was running out of time.

Finally, as the timekeeper called out the 10-second warning, Rodriguez-Spencer was forced into action. He launched into the forward-flipping move, executed it to perfection and left Bannister completely stunned by the sudden turn of events.

It’s a classic case of “Gotcha!” gone "Up in the Air".

A Dallas area cheer and dance coach was arrested for the disturbing and disgusting charges of sexual assault connected with three counts of continuous sexual assault of a child under the age of 14, and was caught during the most dramatic scenarios possible: trying to board a flight to Paris in Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

As reported by Dallas NBC affiliate NBCDFW.com, 30-year-old Kyle Ware was arrested at the airport and charged with the aforementioned violations, which allegedly occurred while he served as a coach at a cheerleading and dance center called Express Cheer and Dance in Frisco, Texas.

"We're very fortunate that the customs officials were able to see his name and make the arrest before he was able to get on the plane and get out of the country," Frisco Police Officer Greg Barnett told NBCDFW. "It would have been very difficult once he was out of the country to get him back to the United States to face the charges."

While Ware is innocent until proven guilty like all who are charged, Barnett issued a statement that made it clear the Frisco police have a strong case against him.

"The gym did the background checks, they did everything they needed to do to ensure to themselves and to the parents and the children that it was a safe environment to be. Unfortunately, Mr. Ware was a predator - he took advantage of his position of trust with the children," said Barnett.

Raekwon Long is considered one of the nation’s most promising freshmen basketball prospects. There’s a good reason for that: He’s very, very tall.

Garinger center Raekwon Long is among the top prospects in the Class of 2016 — Charlotte Observer

Long, who plays for Charlotte (N.C.) Garinger High, stands 7-foot tall and weighs in at 250 pounds. He’s an impressive athlete for his size, too, and made a major impact during his first season at Garinger, averaging 15 points, 13 rebounds and eight blocks per game. And those came against much of North Carolina’s top competition.

Still, there’s one potential roadblock in the way to a major college scholarship for Long: The swimming pool.

Long, who could emerge as the top big man recruit in the Class of 2106, really wants to be a competitive swimmer. According to MaxPreps, it’s what he loves to do, and he is desperate to compete on the Garinger swim team at weekend meets in the future.

“The problem is, swimming is at the same time as basketball,” Garinger boys basketball coach Joshua Coley told MaxPreps. “We've talked about letting him compete on the weekends. The meets are usually on Saturdays, but I'm not too sure about that yet.

"He's very proud about being a swimmer. You can tell him that he can't dunk, but if you tell him he can't swim you've got an argument on your hands."

Perhaps Coley just needs to put in a call to Tim Duncan. The Spurs star and surefire future NBA Hall of Famer was a competitive swimming in the Virgin Islands before he was handed a basketball for the first time.

With Duncan, as soon as he got on the court, the rest was history. That’s what many are hoping will happen with Long as well, particularly now that he has one impressive season under his belt.

They’re not Catalan, or even Spanish. Still, one youth soccer team featuring 11 and 12-year-olds from Giannina, Greece (pronounced Yahnenna) has earned the nickname “Baby Barcelona” for it’s fluid style and complete team effort while scoring goals.

After earning international attention with a goal that coursed through all 11 Giannina players on the pitch after an opening kick off, AO Giannina outdid itself recently, topping its own prior exemplary scoring effort with a 25-pass scoring sequence that eventually concluded with a remarkable over-the-head goal that was remarkably close to a full-on scorpion kick.

Like the team’s prior immaculate goal, AO Giannina’s latest effort saw the team work the ball around with such precision that the opposing squad, Asteras Ioanninon, was left chasing shadows all over the field. Eventually the ball ended up in the back of the net, with one Giannina player so shocked at the complete team goal that he stood at the side holding his head in his hands.

The goal was just one of seven during Giannina's 7-0 rout.

In fact, the goal is so good it’s hard to even pick out a favorite pass. While the shot for the goal may have served as the team’s crowning moment, there were remarkable passes from the Giannina goalie, a pair of midfielders on the right wing and, eventually, a fabulous clean first shot on goal, which just happened to strike the Asteras goalie.

Of course, rather than rob the world of remembering a beautiful passing sequence, that save instead set the stage for one of the goals of the season, via the aforementioned over-the-head kick.

The Giannina team listens to coach Costas Michailidis during a training session — AP photo

Clarke pitcher Sarah Cornell struck out 20 of 22 batters in her season opener — YouTubeUsually a win is considered an awfully good way to start a season for a pitcher. Sarah Cornell went quite a bit further.

In her season debut for Westbury (N.Y.) Clarke High, the freshman struck out 20 of 21 batters to lead Clarke to a 9-0 victory. The 14-year-old was nearly perfect on the day, allowing just a single hit.

Do the math, and Cornell struck out an astounding 20 of 22 batters. That’s one heck of a way to get a season started.

One might think it’s a way to get a career started, too, but Cornell actually pitched for Clarke in 2012 as an eighth grader, helping lead the team to the New York Class A state semifinals.

Unfortunately for Cornell and Clarke, the 2013 campaign hasn’t rolled along the way they might have hoped after that first game. As chronicled by Newsday, Clarke currently stands at 4-4, with Cornell’s record at 3-4.

That’s despite Cornell holding opponents to 2 or fewer runs in six of Clarke’s eight contests.