Fans at Milano’s Becky Dent Field counted down the seconds until Whinstone’s Chad Harris turned on the stadium’s lights for the first time ever Friday night to start the MHS softball alumni game.
Although the evening was centered around a softball game between current and former Lady Eagles, which the current players came back to win, the primary focus of the event was raising money to brighten up the district’s baseball field .
In February, Milano ISD athletic director Wendy King said the school received a “generous” donation from Whinstone U.S., a data center based in Rockdale. Since the acquisition, King and other administrators have made it a priority to get lights on the baseball field.
Their first order of action to help buy the lights was Friday night’s “Light It Up,” which was how the event was promoted. Besides the game, “Light It Up” included a barbecue chicken dinner, a silent auction that raised approximately $10,500 and a home run derby that Class of 2018 graduate and current UMHB football quarterback Kyle King won.
Wendy King expressed her deepest gratitude to everyone who contributed, donated, cooked, served and helped during the course of the event.
She also thanked everyone who bid on an auction item.
With donations, bids from the auction and meals paid for, the event raised close to $20,000.
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