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Tyler Murray, the starting catcher for Huntington Beach’s baseball team this past season, remains hospitalized today because of injuries suffered in a car crash Thursday night.

Murray was the driver of a 2004 Toyota Tacoma truck that was struck by a Nissan Frontier truck on Newland Street in Huntington Beach. One of Murray’s passengers, a 14-year-old cousin, died from injuries suffered in the crash. An older cousin had minor injuries and was also hospitalized.

Huntington Beach baseball coach Benji Medure today said Murray suffered a collapsed lung from the seat belt he was wearing. Medure said it was expected that Murray would spend today in the hospital.

Murray, a senior this past school year who signed with Hawaii, was on the Register’s All-Orange County second team released earlier this month. Huntington Beach won the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 championship. He also was All-Sunset League first team.

Medure said he saw Murray on Thursday.

“Tyler was hitting in the (batting) cage,” Medure said. “I went back later to talk to him but he’d already left.”

Contact the writer: sfryer@ocregister.com