The girls basketball team is giving back to the community this school year.

“It’s something where we’re trying to branch out a little bit and think outside of ourselves,” said head coach Matt Roberts.

On Nov. 28, that branch will grow longer when the team hosts a benefit game in honor of a local woman who is battling terminal brain cancer. The girls varsity game against Mitchell begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Larry C. Banks Memorial Gymnasium.

A ceremony for Felicia Velez begins at 7 p.m.

Velez is a mother of three. She has a daughter who attends preschool at Sprunica Elementary School, which is how Roberts heard about the Velez family. His wife is a preschool teacher at SES.

For the past several months, Velez has been receiving experimental treatments that cost $6,000 to $7,000 a month. “As her health has rapidly declined, she has had to quit her job as a surgical nurse. Her husband is continuing to work to support the family,” Roberts wrote in his letter of support for the benefit game.

The team has designed T-shirts to sell during the game. All proceeds from those sales will go to the Velez family.

The Sprunica PTO also will sell cotton candy during the game to benefit the family.

All fans are asked to wear grey, the tribute color for brain cancer, Roberts said.