SEQUIM — Organizers hope community members will be in the pink Monday, April 28, for back-to-back games pitting Port Angeles and Sequim softball teams and a photo to promote cancer research awareness.
The junior varsity and varsity softball teams from Port Angeles and Sequim high schools will play beginning at 4:15 p.m. at the Sequim High School fields at 601 N. Sequim Ave.
The games are free but donations will be accepted for Pink Up Port Angeles.
Pink Up Port Angeles is an annual campaign organized by the Soroptimist International of Port Angeles Noon Club that raises money for Operation Uplift, a Port Angeles-based group that provides help and information for people with cancer.
Those who wear pink to the games — or who arrive by 6:15 p.m. — can be part of a community portrait taken after the games, with participants forming a pink “cancer ribbon” for the photograph, said Shawnna Rigg, an organizer with Sequim Softball Boosters.
Cancer survivors will throw out the first pitches.
Sequim resident Shirley Hinojosa, 80 — the grandmother of Alexas Besand, who plays first base for the Sequim varsity team — will throw the ball for the varsity game, while Nell Clausen will throw the first pitch for the junior varsity.
Sequim teams will wear pink T-shirts emblazoned with “Lady Wolves Think Pink.” The shirt will be on sale for $15, Riggs said.
Port Angeles teams will wear pink with white letters spelling out “Lady Riders,” said Randy Steinman, Port Angeles High School softball coach.
“It’s going to be pretty cool,” he said.
Students also plan to tie colored ribbon onto the backstop to represent memorials to loved ones who died of cancer, Riggs said.
For more information, email sequimsoftballboosters@gmail.com.
