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Softball To Open ACC Play With Cancer Awareness Weekend

CHAPEL HILL – Carolina softball begins Atlantic Coast Conference play on March 12-13, hosting the Syracuse Orange at Anderson Stadium. In conjunction with the start of the conference season, the Tar Heels will host two different cancer awareness events, as Saturday’s doubleheader will be the 2016 Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day, while Carolina and Syracuse will participate in the Go4theGoal Foundation’s Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer initiative on Sunday. Proceeds from both events will go to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill.

“Cancer affects so many people,” said head coach Donna J.