PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – For the third consecutive year, the Plattsburgh State baseball team will be hosting its Brian Mehan Be The Match game at Lefty Wilson Field. The Cardinals will take on Union College at 6 p.m. on Tuesday night and the game is the final portion of a day filled with activities that honor the memory of Mehan, a former Plattsburgh State baseball player.

Seven years ago, Mehan lost his courageous battle with cancer and since then the Cardinals have teamed with the Be The Match foundation to raise awareness about various types of bone and blood cancers.

Once again, members of the Plattsburgh State baseball team will be teaming up with an agent from the Be The Match foundation to hold their swabbing drive in the Angell College Center Alumni Conference Room from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Joining the Be The Match Registry is easy and pain-free; volunteers simply need to swab the inside of their cheek for 30 seconds. On average, one in every 540 members of the Be The Match Registry in the United States will go on to donate bone marrow to a patient.

Before and during the Cardinals' single, nine-inning game with the Dutchmen, tickets will be sold for a 50/50 raffle, the proceeds of which will go directly to the Brian P. Mehan Scholarship Fund at Plattsburgh High School.

For more information on the Brian Mehan Be The Match game and for updates throughout the day, follow Plattsburgh State baseball (@Platts_Baseball), Brian Mehan Be The Match (@BrianMehanMatch) and Plattsburgh State Athletics (@PBurghCardinals) on Twitter. Live stats will also be available for the tilt between the Cardinals and Dutchmen at GoCardinalSports.com – the official website of Plattsburgh State athletics.