It was a last-minute decision.

After Friday night’s game against Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, North Central Texas College’s softball team loaded the bus to head back to Gainesville, Texas.

Second baseman Haley McCutchen decided against joining her teammates on the bus and instead headed to Lone Grove, her hometown, with her mother. They were headed south on Interstate 35 near Norman when they got the news that the bus had been in a crash.

“We pulled over, and I just fell apart,” McCutchen said.