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Introduction Serious injury as a result of abdominal trauma in collision sport is relatively rare. The most commonly reported injuries are to solid organs, such as the spleen and liver (1). Splenic injury risk is elevated in many medical conditions such as infectious mononucleosis (2). The hollow organs of the digestive tract are less commonly injured in collision sport and reports of such injuries are limited to case reports (3Y8). The reported incidence of hollow organ injury in trauma ranges from 1% to 8.5% (9). The surgical literature more commonly reports this type of injury, typically in accidents that involve blunt trauma with bicycle handle bars in children (10,11). Motorcycle and motocross accidents leading to bowel injury also are reported. A recent case of bowel injury associated with splenic and pancreatic laceration also was reported (12). In the following case series, we report two cases of abdominal trauma in collision sport leading to bowel injury.