SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Drury baseball will be donning blue and green this weekend, as the Panthers will team up with Mid-America Transplant to champion organ and tissue donation for their Saturday (April 18) doubleheader against Upper Iowa. The Donate Life Game, held during National Donate Life Month, brings the community together to honor donor heroes, celebrate lives saved, and inspire fans to register and give the gift of life.

During their Great Lakes Valley Conference twin bill on Saturday, the Panthers will swap out their Scarlet and Gray for blue and green, the national colors for organ and tissue donation. The first 200 fans in attendance for the 1 p.m., doubleheader at Mark Worley Field at Meador Park will receive a free Drury baseball t-shirt.

General admission tickets for Saturday's doubleheader are available for $5 each through DruryPanthers.com. Fans are reminded that Mark Worley Field at Meador Park is a cashless facility, and transactions are limited to credit/debit card and mobile wallet platforms. Registered organ donors can show their ID to receive free admission.

"We're excited to help increase awareness of the mission of Mid-America Transplant," Drury head coach Scott Nasby stated. "It's important for our program to work with organizations who fill such a critical need within our community, and we hope to draw a great crowd to support this cause."

In 2025, 31 people from Southwest Missouri made 95 lifesaving organ transplants possible, gave sight to 64 people, and healed more than 16,000 people through tissue donation.

"We're grateful to Drury for helping to spark important conversations about organ and tissue donation," said Kevin Lee, President and CEO of Mid-America Transplant. "We hope today's game will inspire people to register as a donor. It takes only two minutes to sign up and could provide the miracle someone is waiting for."

Organ and tissue donation is essential for saving lives:
· Every eight minutes, someone is added to the national transplant waiting list.
· Seventeen people die each day waiting for an organ transplant.
· In 2025, Mid-America Transplant facilitated 799 organ transplants from 280 donors. A total of 2,653 donors gave gifts of tissue to improve the quality of life for more than 199,000 people. In addition, 1,665 donors gave corneas to enable life-changing vision transplants.

To register as a donor, visit SayYesGiveLife.org.

About Mid-America Transplant
Mid-America Transplant enables adults and children to receive lifesaving gifts through organ and tissue donations. For nearly 50 years, it has facilitated and coordinated organ, tissue, and eye donation, and now serves 84 counties covering eastern Missouri, southern Illinois and northeast Arkansas that together are home to 4.7 million people. It saves lives by providing expert and compassionate care for organ donors, recipients and families, and transforms the clinical processes required to recover and transplant organs and tissues. Mid-America Transplant was the first such organization in the U.S. to use an in-house operating room for organ recovery and pioneered innovative models of increasing donor registry enrollment to provide organs and tissues to those in need. It is federally designated as one of 56 such organizations in the U.S. and is the first organ procurement organization (OPO) to be recognized as a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence, and the only two-time recipient. For more information, visit midamericatransplant.org.  

LOOKING AHEAD
Drury returns to Mark Worley Field at Meador Park to open its final home stand of the season Friday (April 17), when they host Upper Iowa for a 5 p.m., game in the first of four GLVC contests with the Peacocks next weekend.

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