Baseball Gets a Base Hit in Clothing Drive

The team aimed for a double-play by helping families and fundraising for a new scoreboard at the same time.

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Kayla Parker-DiScala

Parker Dunham (9) works with members of the baseball team collecting bags of used clothing for the fundraiser.

Thanks to donations from community members the boys baseball team collected over 5,000 pounds of clothes — that’s $750.00 to put toward a new scoreboard. More importantly, it means clothing for people in need.

“We started collecting clothes Monday, March 3 and continued all month long. The boys were in front of the school picking up donated bags and also walked around collecting the clothes,” said Jeremy Wooten.

The old clothes and shoes not only raises funds for the team but donated clothing will be sent to families in third world countries.

“If the clothes are in decent condition, they will send them to the third world countries, and if they are not in decent condition, then they will process them to be recycled to create new clothes or for a different purpose,” he said.

To make the fundraiser a success the team partnered up with OC Textiles, a company out to reduce the 13 million tons of textiles that enter our landfills each year and help families in need.

The company donated $0.15 per pound for the used material. The team’s goal was to raise $5,000.00 — that would have been about 33,000 pound of used clothing.

The team asked all Stallion families to contribute and they dropped the clothing near the large storage bin in the parking lot by the upper field. People set the bags by a large roll-off container bin and the team did the rest of the work.

This was a great opportunity for the boys baseball team to raise money and help grow their baseball program and buy a new scoreboard. It not only helps the baseball team, but it helps out families in need, according to Wooten.

Baseball games are free to attend. There are no ticket charges and therefore no income from ticket sales.