My recollection is that it had gone out of playing distance.
Playing distance is ill-defined in the LotG, but guess the question is, could Culina have got to the ball first, and I would hazard that a fair answer to that is yes.
The other side of it also is that any contact from Culina is arguably incidental as caused by the initial aerial challenge. As it was from Durante until he used his arm to get Culina out of the way.