Macalester's Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) raised over $1,700 to help fight breast cancer last Friday (Oct. 9) at volleyball's “Dig Pink Night” match with Augsburg and the women's soccer “Kick Cancer Night” match with UW-River Falls.

Dig Pink Night contributions totaled over $1,300 for the Side-Out Foundation. Contributors gave at the gate and also on-line. At soccer's Kick Cancer Night, and a silent auction for the three pink game balls and contributions at the gate brought $400 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.