Reno Aces to host second “Home Run for Life” ceremony on Friday
RENO, Nev. – The Reno Aces will host their second Saint Mary’s “Home Run for Life” ceremony of 2021, featuring Antonette Shaw-Costa, a breast cancer survivor,on Friday, June 4 when the Aces take on the Sacramento River Cats at 6:35 p.m. PT at Greater Nevada Field. Since 2014, the Aces
RENO, Nev. – The Reno Aces will host their second Saint Mary’s “Home Run for Life” ceremony of 2021, featuring Antonette Shaw-Costa, a breast cancer survivor,on Friday, June 4 when the Aces take on the Sacramento River Cats at 6:35 p.m. PT at Greater Nevada Field.
Since 2014, the Aces and Saint Mary’s have partnered to showcase the “Home Run for Life” program. Once a month, a brave individual in the Northern Nevada community is honored by taking a ceremonial trip around the bases with each team lining the baselines. The ceremony symbolizes the end of a battle against adversity. Individuals honored have overcome a significant medical event in their life with the help of Saint Mary’s personnel.
Antonette is an embodiment of a warrior’s heart, battling through thick and thin and still coming out on top.
In January 2018, Antonette found the infamous sign of cancer in her right breast and on her lymph nodes, a lump. It was not long before the words “you have cancer” were uttered from her doctor’s mouth and left her in a world of “deafening silence”.
The news was shocking for Antonette but, she turned to social media as an outlet and started a video blog called Antonette Inspires to provide support not only for herself but, for those who also needed to know they were not alone.
This warrior went through six months of chemotherapy, six surgeries and six and a half weeks of strong radiation to banish those cancerous cells. Through her 18-month bout with breast cancer, Antonette continued to show her strength, grinding out her everyday job as a realtor by nearly breaking her own personal sales goals in the process and also found love as a newlywed last year.
In the coming months, Antonette will be a competitor in the Breast Cancer to Bikini Competition in October to take back her mind, body and spirit.
Antonette will round the bases commemorating her "Home Run for Life” in the middle of the second inning on Friday night. The Reno Aces and the Sacramento River Cats players and staff will be lined up at a 12-foot distance to greet her as she makes her way toward home plate.
Greater Nevada Field gates open at 5:35 p.m. PT on Friday, June 4. Tickets are on sale now at www.renoaces.com or by calling (775) 334-7000.