ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Lehigh Valley IronPigs announced Tuesday that its 2026 Strike Out Cancer night raised $25,000 for local cancer support programs.<\/p>\n
The 9th annual fundraising event was held June 16. Since its inception in 2018, the fundraising initiative has raised more than $160,000 to support cancer patients and their families.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s funds are being donated to Cancer Support Community \u2014 Greater Lehigh Valley<\/a> and The Prager Patient Assistance Fund<\/a>. The programs offer emotional and financial support, respectively, for local cancer patients.<\/p>\n The IronPigs Strike Out Cancer Night was presented by Toyota and Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute, part of Jefferson Health.<\/p>\n IronPigs players wore jerseys featuring the names of local people who have survived or are currently fighting cancer.<\/p>\n The jerseys were auctioned off and combined with 50\/50 raffle proceeds to support the fundraiser. Additional money was also raised through Strike Out Cancer T-shirt sales and sponsorship sales.<\/p>\n Dr. Bradley Lash, interim physician-in-chief of the Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute, said the event was a \u201ca powerful reminder\u201d of what community members can accomplish together.<\/p>\n “Every name represented, every dollar raised and every fan in the stands reflects hope and strength for those battling cancer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Lehigh Valley IronPigs announced Tuesday that its 2026 Strike Out Cancer night raised $25,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,4662,64131,125788,5705,6728,4341,130167,130168],"class_list":["post-320409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-baseball","tag-cancer-support","tag-cancer-support-community","tag-charity","tag-fundraising","tag-ironpigs","tag-jersey-auction","tag-strike-out-cancer-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}