The father of 10-year-old Long Island Little League player Lazar LaPenna, who collapsed and died during a game Friday, said that the epileptic seizure that took his son’s life was caused by his excitement over scoring a hit. “The sheer excitement of the hit that he got brought on a seizure, while he was standing on first base,” Gregg LaPenna told Newsday. “He went into a seizure with a smile on his face and he collapsed on first base and he never came out.”Lazar died just two days after celebrating his 10th birthday. LaPenna said his son would usually pick a jersey number matching his age, but this time he decided to keep his old number, 9.
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