ESTEVAN - The Estevan Comprehensive School Elecs' senior girls' basketball team's annual Victor Elias Memorial Shoot for a Cure tournament tipped off Friday at the Estevan Comprehensive School.
Not only is the event a chance for the six teams entered to showcase their basketball skills, but it is a fundraiser for the fight against cancer. Teams don pink jerseys and other pink attire, and fundraisers are happening.
ECS defeated the Yorkton Regional High School Raiders 66-41 in their opening game of the tournament.
Proceeds from the tournament will be directed to the cancer fight of Cara Hauber, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Her daughter is a student at the Comp., and knows many members of the Elecs' senior girls basketball team.
Prior to the start of the Estevan-Yorkton game, members of both teams lined up on the court with pink balloons. The balloons had the name of someone each player knows who is battling cancer. Members of both teams then released the balloons in the air.
The Elecs also paid tribute to Hauber before the game.
The next edition of the Mercury will have full coverage of the tournament.
