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Investigators have said the driver apparently mistook an exit ramp for a highway lane, continued along it without stopping at a "T" intersection at the top of the ramp and then went over the edge.

Team member Kyle King, talking to reporters from his hospital room earlier this week, said most of the players were asleep when he heard the bus driver's wife scream, the tires screech and the bus hit the concrete barrier.

The crash also killed the bus driver and his wife, Jerome and Jean Niemeyer, and players Scott Harmon, Tyler Williams and Cody Holp. Arend had been a pitcher at Paulding High School, a small school in rural northwest Ohio.

The team had been scheduled to play Eastern Mennonite University in Florida. Instead, players from the school in Harrisonburg, Va., attended a memorial service.