Viking girls basketball team to host tournament to benefit sick youngster
The Wareham High School girls basketball program has teamed up with The Dick Melloni Youth Foundation to run the first Annual Wareham Winter Classic at Wareham High School on January 3 and 4
Wareham, New Bedford, Foxboro and Sandwich high schools will participate in this year’s classic. Proceeds from this event will be donated to the “Make Room for Molly Fund," which is in support of a deserving local Wareham family.
Molly will be four years old and is not yet able to speak, stand or walk, roll over, crawl, bring food to her mouth or chew and is wheelchair dependent. Molly has eight diagnoses, some overlapping. Her main diagnosis is Septo-Optic Dysplasia, a disorder of early brain development. She also has uncontrolled epilepsy, Cerebral Vision Impairment, legal blindness, and Global Development Delay. These conditions contribute to her seizures, movement, coordination, vision, communication, sensory, feeding and digestive issues, as well as significant cognitive delays. Molly’s home needs modifications to make it handicap accessible and to “Make Room for Molly’s” large pieces of medical equipment, devices and supplies.
Sandwich and Foxboro will play Saturday, January 3 at 3 p.m. Wareham and New Bedford High will play at 5 p.m. On Sunday, January 4, the consolation game will be held at 3 p.m. with the championship game starting at 5 p.m.
Various fundraising events will take place during the tournament to support the Make Room for Molly Fund, such as concession stands, 50/50 raffles, Triple Threat half time shoot outs, tee shirt sales, and raffle items including new children’s bicycles.