The Eddie Meath All-Star game is an opportunity for high school seniors to play one last game before heading off to college.

Competitors become teammates and it also gives the athletes a chance to do something that stretches far beyond the football field.

West All-Star Head Coach Gene Mastin retired last season after a stellar career at Hornell but just try to keep him away from his playbook for the Eddie Meath All-Star game. “My last game was last year, this is just a plus one.”

All of the kids playing are All-Greater Rochester -- nominated by their coaches to be part of this annual tradition for what they do on the field and off.

Hornell quarterback Dominic Scavo said, “Some of the guys you hate for four quarters all season but we talk on Facebook and text and hang out, so to be on the same team is cool.”

For the second year in a row, the Webster Thomas Cross Country team will be holding a charity event to raise funds for Reece's Rainbow -- an organization that helps to facilitate international adoptions of children with Down Syndrome.

The team will be conducting a 12-hour relay in which teams of 10 will run one-mile legs continuously around the Thomas track.

This year’s run is for Ashlyn. She is a two-year-old girl with Down syndrome. She has a heart defect and lives in an orphanage in Russia, where she faces a lifetime of institutionalization. With financial support, funds can be added to her adoption fund to help her to find a loving family that she so richly deserves.

All donations from this relay will go towards her adoption fund.

For more about Ashlyn or how you can contribute visit, click here.

State Senator Mike Nozzolio, R, Fayette, is calling for the Town of Webster’s athletic facility on Basket Road to be named in memory of Monroe County native Major Don Holleder.

Nozzolio has asked the members of the Webster Town Board to consider naming the facility the “Major Don Holleder Veterans’ Memorial Field.” Nozzolio was instrumental in helping Webster establish the youth athletic facility.

Webster Supervisor Ron Nesbitt said Tuesday morning that the board is looking at the request “and discussing whether we want to do this or not.”

Major Don Holleder was an All-America football player at West Point who chose to serve in Vietnam over a career in the NFL.