Autopsy on URI Athlete Inconclusive
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State officials say an autopsy has turned up no signs of why a University of Rhode Island baseball player died last week after collapsing during a team workout, and more tests will be performed.
Twenty-year-old Joseph Ciancola of Orange, Conn., collapsed during a preseason workout on Oct. 24 and died three days later at Rhode Island Hospital.
WJAR-TV reports that the autopsy on Ciancola was inconclusive and more lab work and tests are being performed.
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School officials say Ciancola didn't appear to be ill before he collapsed.
Services for Ciancola are scheduled for Friday at 4 p.m. at the Cody-White Funeral Home in Milford, Conn. He will be buried on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Holy Infant Church in Orange.
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