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Four high school golfers struck by lightning, one critical
ANACONDA, Mont. (AP) - Lighting struck during a high school golf tournament Friday, injuring four players, including a 14-year-old boy who was directly hit.

Assistant Chief of Police Tom DeTonancour said an adult who performed CPR on the boy said his head was warm to the touch.

``He had been wearing a cap of some kind, and the lightning actually tore it in half,'' DeTonancour said.

Brandon Nelson of Anaconda was hospitalized in stable condition Friday evening, as were two other players who were on the Anaconda Country Club course in Opportunity. Another was treated and released, said nursing supervisor Jo Ellen Villa.

Amy Joyner said her nephew, who had learned just a day earlier that he made the golf team, sustained burns on his left shoulder and along his back, but that doctors gave him a good prognosis. She said the strike obliterated the golf glove he was wearing.

Anaconda High School golf coach Mark Torney said the storm came up quickly and there was no time to take shelter.

Butte Central golf coach Chad Petersen called 911 after the boy was struck.

``Right after that kid got hit, another one hit about a hundred yards away about five seconds later,'' he said. ``You could feel static, and I looked over to where he was and you could see smoke.''

The rest of the tournament was canceled.