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Spotlight to shine on cancer survivors at annual Oklahoma City RedHawks fundraiser

Oklahoma cancer patients and survivors will pitch for a future free of cancer at the annual LiveStrong Night with the Oklahoma City RedHawks at 7:05 tonight at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark.

Turner Mason Swink, an Oklahoma City eighth-grader diagnosed with cancer when he was 1 year old, and Caitlin Schemmel, a Colbert third-grader battling leukemia, will each throw out a first pitch at the event sponsored by the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the RedHawks.

This year, the annual fundraiser is called "Pack the Park in Yellow," and organizers urge anyone attending the game to wear yellow as a show of support for all of those diagnosed with cancer in Oklahoma.

Yellow LiveStrong T-shirts will be on sale at the game. Yellow is the signature color of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, representing hope, courage and perseverance for those affected by cancer. Turner and Caitlin are living examples of all three.

Turner, 13, developed leukemia in 1998, had a reoccurrence in 2000 and then developed a brain tumor in 2005. Today, Turner is in remission counting his fifth year of being cancer-free.

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