A moment of silence for Nathan

Wednesday afternoon, the Franklin Knights baseball team took a moment in silence to honor the life of a fellow high school baseball player who died Tuesday morning. Nathan Luzier, a Rocky Grove sophomore passed away from injuries sustained in an automobile accident before school. 
His tragic death has left the community in shock and mourning.

Across town team Franklin, before taking on a top team from Erie, wanted to pay tribute to their fellow community athlete and young student. Sad day in Venango County.

As a long-time community journalist this isn't the first tragic loss of a young life I've had to cover. I do not really know the young man who lost his life, yet I kinda do. When I was in high school we lost a lifelong friend, a senior good guy and incredible long-distance runner. I would watch his backside disappear over hills way up ahead of me for years. He got a motorcycle in his senior year and for reasons I don't know, he lost control of it one afternoon and died only a short distance from his home.

I have thouht about him many times over the last 38 years. I thought a great deal about him yesterday and today. And I thought a great deal about Nathan and his family. And the other two young people in the accident. Incredibly sad days for our community. It is hard enough losing a life long old friend, but losing a person before they have grown up is truly a tragedy, but thinking about my old friend who died in high school, I know his lif had meaning that will stay with us for a very long time.

The Franklin Knights went on to avenge and earlier season loss to Mercyhurst Prep with a 5-4 victory at home. Franklin's Luke Guth was pretty solid from the mount. "Luke's pretty strong today," said his catcher Cole Harmon after the first inning.

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