West Milford - The sports community at the high school and around the township is shocked and saddened at the death of a young athlete. Benjamin Jurgensen, 22, a junior at Centenary College in Hackettstown, died Monday. Fellow Centenary students said he had jogged around campus shortly before his death. This was the third death of a young township resident in less than a month. Hackettstown Police spokesman Detective Wade Caccese said police received a call from a passerby at 5:10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, reporting an “unconscious, unresponsive party” lying on the lawn of 422 Washington St. at the corner of Church Street. Both the responding police officer and a community volunteer tried to resuscitate the man. The Hackettstown First Aid and Rescue Squad took him to the nearby Hackettstown Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 5:48 p.m. Caccese said no foul play was suspected. An autopsy was performed by the Warren County Medical Examiner on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Findings were not released pending toxicological reports which are expected in about two weeks. A 2005 graduate of West Milford High School, Jurgensen was a business administration major with a concentration in sports management. He was a right-handed pitcher on the college baseball team, appearing in 14 games during the spring 2008 season. Police were not sure if he was heading to campus or to his off-campus apartment or possibly to nearby Main Street. Church Street connects Trinity United Methodist Church and the Methodist college. Washington Street is three blocks from the college in a mostly residential Victorian neighborhood with some student apartments. An earlier tragedy Caccese confirmed this was the second death of a student athlete at the college in four years. In the fall of 2004, a wrestler died in his dormitory after a seizure. Bob Henry, who coached Jurgensen in fall and summer baseball, said the young man was active in the Connie Mack Baseball League winter training for four years, coaching younger pitchers. Joe Trentacosta, the varsity baseball coach at West Milford High, said even after he went away to college, Jurgensen came back to help coach younger players. Word of Jurgensen’s death spread quickly. Resident Marilyn Schultz said her son, at school in Arizona, knew of the incident before she did at home in the township. Jurgensen also played basketball and ran cross-country at West Milford High. Benjamin Whitman Jurgensen was born in Ridgewood and was a life-long resident of West Milford. He is survived by his parents, Wayne and Carol Millosky Jurgensen, three brothers, Nicholas, Christopher and Dustin and a sister Lindsay all of West Milford, his maternal grandparents, James and Pauline Millosky of North Carolina and his paternal grandmother Ethel Jurgensen of Vernon. Funeral Liturgy will be held at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 27, at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church. Friends meet directly at church. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Visiting is at the Richards Funeral Home, 1440 Union Valley Rd., West Milford Friday, Sept. 26, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to West Milford Connie Mack Baseball, c/o Bob Henry, PO Box 522, West Milford, NJ 07480.