Ref dies during JV basketball game

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By Beth Boehne

Story Created: Nov 22, 2008 at 7:35 PM EST

Story Updated: Nov 22, 2008 at 7:35 PM EST

HEBRON, Ind. (AP) — The Porter County coroner says a basketball referee who became ill during halftime of a girls junior varsity game died later at a hospital of an apparent heart attack.

Coroner Vicki Deppe says 56-year-old Thomas P. Duffin of LaPorte was treated at Hebron High School by paramedics Friday night and then taken by ambulance to Porter Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The junior varsity game was completed with the officials who were to have worked the varsity game, and school officials postponed the varsity game.

Hebron athletic director Rhonda Walker says Duffin had been a high school official for more than 25 years.

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Information from: The Times, http://nwitimes.com

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