WOODBRIDGE — The best Mother’s Day gift for Julie Lehmann was sitting on the sidelines of Singer Field in Avenel on Sunday and watching her 9-year-old son Frankie play with the Woodbridge Wildkats.
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The players in the under-10 Amateur Athletic Union travel league team were thinking of their mothers, too. In a way, they were wearing their love on their sleeves.

When the boys walked out onto the field that afternoon with their blue and white uniforms they also sported bright pink wristbands.

It was part of the team’s effort to help raise awareness for breast cancer and raise money for the Susan G. Komen for Cure Foundation, team manager Ezio Tamburello said.

With parents of both the Wildkats and the visiting team matching donations for every strike out and hit, the undefeated Wildkats collected $200 after beating the Tinton Falls Terminators 9-6 with 7 runs in the bottom of the fifth.

Lehmann, who suggested the idea to the team, was inspired by other youth baseball teams her oldest son played with three years ago when he was 9.
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