A relative of the latest Bluffton University baseball player to die as a result of last week's fatal bus crash said the family feels robbed.

Zachary Arend, 18, died Friday morning at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, bringing the death toll from the accident to seven. Three other players and the team's coach are still being treated at Atlanta area hospitals.

"He was a wonderful kid that never really caused anybody grief," Maria Miller, his aunt, said by phone from Arend's Oakwood, Ohio, home. "This is not fair."

Miller said the freshman pitcher and outfielder died of multiple injuries, mostly internal, to his head, lungs, and other organs. Doctors surgically removed his spleen and kept him sedated and on a ventilator, she said.

"I think he started spiking a fever and got an infection," Miller said. "His body couldn't fight it."

The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office determined the cause as blunt-force trauma to the head and torso after an autopsy Friday, a routine procedure in traffic deaths.

Miller described Arend as close to his parents, Dana and Caroline, and his three younger sisters. A sports management major, Arend was good student who also participated in golf, basketball and cross country. He started playing baseball "as young as you can start," she said.

Funeral arrangements are pending. Arend's parents, who through Grady hospital officials declined to talk to the media, are expected to return to Oakwood this weekend.

Bluffton University President James M. Harder broke the news of Arend's death to the school community Friday as family and friends prepared to say their goodbyes to David Betts, another team member killed in the wreck whose funeral was scheduled for Friday evening.

Funeral services were held earlier this week for players Scott Harmon, Tyler Williams and Cody Holp, and for bus driver Jerry Niemeyer and his wife, Jean Niemeyer.