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 BLUFFTON, Ohio (AP) - Before the baseball team departed for their annual spring break tournament in Florida, students at close-knit Bluffton University gathered for a weekly chapel service to pray that all those who were traveling a safe trip.
Only hours later, the team's bus plunged off a highway, killing four members of the team. On a campus that is smaller than many high schools, the news immediately touched off panic — nearly everyone here knew someone on the bus.
"This is probably about as painful as anything," university President James Harder said at an assembly Friday morning, where students and others wiped tears away and spoke in hushed tones. "We know these people on a first-name basis."
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