Mike Hamilton, a Crittenden County School District custodian and sports referee, passed away in Eddyville earlier tonight while officiating a basketball game.Hamilton had called the first game of a middle school boys' doubleheader between Lyon and Caldwell counties. In the second game, he left the court and went into the locker room where he later died of an apparent heart attack.
Hamilton was the head umpire for youth baseball and softball games at Marion-Crittenden County Park and had for several years officiated various other school and youth sporting events in western Kentucky.
