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Hoops coach dies in balloon crash

ByABC News
May 10, 2014, 4:39 PM

— -- A women's basketball coach at the University of Richmond was among three people feared dead after a hot air balloon drifted into a power line and burst into flames in front of hundreds of horrified spectators.

Associate head coach Ginny Doyle was presumed to have been killed in the accident, the victim's sister told the Washington Post. Another member of the school's coaching staff was also on board the balloon, the sister told the newspaper.

Doyle, 44, was a former Richmond player who had been a member of the coaching staff for 16 seasons.

Bodies of two occupants of the balloon have been recovered. Rescuers were still searching Saturday for the third victim and any remnants of the balloon or its basket, state police said.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.