Baseball | 4/7/2017 2:22:00 PM

STATESBORO, Ga. – For the third consecutive season, Georgia Southern Baseball will partner with the Vs. Cancer Foundation to raise money to fight childhood cancer. The Eagles will hold their annual Vs. Cancer Day on Saturday, April 15th, asking fans to donate to the cause. Following the finale of the Appalachian State series, members of the Eagle Baseball team will shave their heads in support of those battling cancer.

To donate visit https://team.vs-cancer.org/gs2017.

In 2016 the Eagles raised more than $11,000 for the Vs. Cancer Foundation, surpassing their target of $8,000. The team will collect donations leading up to the event and all proceeds benefit childhood cancer research and children's hospitals.

The Vs. Cancer project began when a freshman baseball player at the University of North Carolina was diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer. After months of surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation, Chase Jones and his teammates wanted to do something to help other kids like Chase, who had to endure such suffering.     

Chase's teammates decided to shave their heads to raise funds for life-saving research and for programs to help children in their local cancer hospital.

Since that time, Vs. Cancer has partnered with dozens of teams to support the children and families impacted by childhood cancer today and to fund research to help make childhood cancer a thing of the past.

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