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K-State Baseball’s ALS Awareness Halloween Game Set for Saturday
Oct 24, 2019 | Baseball
MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State baseball will hold its ALS Awareness Halloween Game Saturday at Tointon Family Stadium, set to start at approximately 3 p.m. or 30 minutes following the conclusion of the K-State vs. Oklahoma football game, head coach Pete Hughes announced.
All fans are invited to attend this free, fun event while raising awareness and funds to fight ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Coaches and players will dress in costume for an entertaining and fun baseball game for the whole family. Fans in attendance are also encouraged to dress in costume.
With the ongoing improvements being made to Tointon Family Stadium, fans are asked to enter the stadium through marked signs near Gate 1 at the corner College Avenue and Jack Hartman Drive (down the left field line). Fans will be able to watch the action in the outfield and along the warning track behind a temporary fence.
The ALS Awareness Halloween Game began in 2012 while Hughes was the head coach at Virginia Tech, when Hughes' former player Pete Frates was diagnosed with ALS. Frates, who played for Hughes at Boston College, and his family spearheaded the Ice Bucket Challenge which has helped raise over $115 million towards finding a cure.
"Pete told me the day he was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 27, that if Lou Gehrig's name was on the face of the disease, then his name was going to be on the cure," Hughes said. "Amazingly, this looks to be heading in that direction. He is an inspiration to myself, my family and every one of my players that have joined in the fight against ALS."
The ALS Awareness Halloween Game is a staple event of Hughes' 19 Ways campaign designed to impact the community in a positive way on 19 different occasions. Click here for highlights of last year's event.
The Wildcats' fall season will continue Sunday with their second exhibition game, as the Cats are set to take on Oral Roberts at 4 p.m. at Tointon Family Stadium. The fall slate will conclude with the annual Fall World Series November 8-10.
Admission is free to all fall events and fans are invited to enter the stadium through marked signs near Brandeberry Indoor Complex and sit in the bleachers down the right field line.
K-State Baseball Fall Schedule (free admission to all)
October 26 – ALS Awareness Halloween Game (3 p.m. or 30 minutes after OU football game)
October 27 – Exhibition vs. Oral Roberts (4 p.m.)
November 8 – Fall World Series – Game 1 (6 p.m.)
November 9 – Fall World Series – Game 2 (4 p.m.)
November 10 – Fall World Series – Game 3 (1 p.m.); "Shave for the Brave"
All fans are invited to attend this free, fun event while raising awareness and funds to fight ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Coaches and players will dress in costume for an entertaining and fun baseball game for the whole family. Fans in attendance are also encouraged to dress in costume.
With the ongoing improvements being made to Tointon Family Stadium, fans are asked to enter the stadium through marked signs near Gate 1 at the corner College Avenue and Jack Hartman Drive (down the left field line). Fans will be able to watch the action in the outfield and along the warning track behind a temporary fence.
The ALS Awareness Halloween Game began in 2012 while Hughes was the head coach at Virginia Tech, when Hughes' former player Pete Frates was diagnosed with ALS. Frates, who played for Hughes at Boston College, and his family spearheaded the Ice Bucket Challenge which has helped raise over $115 million towards finding a cure.
"Pete told me the day he was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 27, that if Lou Gehrig's name was on the face of the disease, then his name was going to be on the cure," Hughes said. "Amazingly, this looks to be heading in that direction. He is an inspiration to myself, my family and every one of my players that have joined in the fight against ALS."
The ALS Awareness Halloween Game is a staple event of Hughes' 19 Ways campaign designed to impact the community in a positive way on 19 different occasions. Click here for highlights of last year's event.
The Wildcats' fall season will continue Sunday with their second exhibition game, as the Cats are set to take on Oral Roberts at 4 p.m. at Tointon Family Stadium. The fall slate will conclude with the annual Fall World Series November 8-10.
Admission is free to all fall events and fans are invited to enter the stadium through marked signs near Brandeberry Indoor Complex and sit in the bleachers down the right field line.
K-State Baseball Fall Schedule (free admission to all)
October 26 – ALS Awareness Halloween Game (3 p.m. or 30 minutes after OU football game)
October 27 – Exhibition vs. Oral Roberts (4 p.m.)
November 8 – Fall World Series – Game 1 (6 p.m.)
November 9 – Fall World Series – Game 2 (4 p.m.)
November 10 – Fall World Series – Game 3 (1 p.m.); "Shave for the Brave"
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