Number of Participants: 75
Hours Donated: 4
Value of Time Served: $2,535
Event Amount Raised: $10,000
Event Type: Civic & Community
Sport: Baseball
Date: October 21, 2017
Location:
Levittown
NY, United States
About:
Three high schools in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District as well as Levittown’s General Douglas MacArthur High School joined forces on Oct. 21 to host a baseball fundraiser for a student battling Hodgkin lymphoma.
As Steve “Bones” Kuzemchak, a student at Sanford H. Calhoun High School, continues to fight this illness, teammates and peers wanted to assist the family during their time of need. The teams jointly hosted a homerun derby, which was open to all to participate. Various batters knocked it out of the park in support of Kuzemchak’s fight.
More than $10,000 was donated to the family, including $5,000 already donated by the Smith Street Deli owners in Merrick.
Photo caption: Several baseball players, coaches and community members joined together to fundraise for a family in need.
Photos courtesy of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District