All events at Recreation Center-North will benefit breast cancer research

~One in eight women will have breast cancer

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately one in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, but Relay for Life at Southeast Missouri State University is trying to help lower that number.

Relay for Life will host the Save Second Base Volleyball Tournament, which they plan to make an annual event, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in the Student Recreation Center-North.

Ben Mulholland, co-event chair for Relay for Life, said teams and individuals can sign up before the tournament from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday in the University Center or the night of the event starting at 5 p.m.

"It's $25 per team or $5 per person, and you can come by yourself or you can come with friends," Mulholland said. "Teams are made up of six to eight people, and they can be the same gender or mixed gender."

The tournament will be a bracket-style tournament with each of the matches being determined at the start of the night after all of the teams have signed up.

"[It's] 25 points in a set, and it's the best two out of three sets to win the match and then you move on in the bracket," Mulholland said.

According to Mulholland, Saving Second Base is also part of a bigger event at the Recreation Center that night.

"We are also doing a 5k Zombie Run and Zombie Zumba on the same night, they'll be going on at different times throughout the night, and all the money raised will benefit the Relay for Life, and so it will all be donated to the American Cancer Society," Mulholland said.

The volleyball tournament and zombie night were planned separately, but members from Relay for Life and the staff from Recreation Services decided to combine the two events.

"We decided the best idea would be we're going to help volunteer for the zombie run and the Zumba as well as put on the volleyball tournament, and we're going to try to raise as much money as we can with the rec," Mulholland said.

Saving Second Base is just one of many events that Relay for Life sponsors on campus throughout the year.

"We're also the Colleges Against Cancer group on campus, so our focus is advocating the different cancers, and every month represents a different cancer and we want people to know that we do more than just Relay for Life, we also are cancer awareness," Mulholland said.

The group also is sponsoring a Gobble Wobble scavenger hunt on campus in November, and it meets at 6 p.m. every Monday in the University Center.