Everybody knows it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Just about all of us knows somebody affected by breast cancer, which in turn affects us.

This is particularly true in sports, where we see a lot of teams at all levels of competition wearing pink jerseys, hats, socks, shoes, etc. to promote the awareness.

If any sport in Butler County can rally its forces and make a major impact for the cause, it's girls soccer.

Slippery Rock played at Karns City the other day. Fans of both teams wore pink t-shirts in the stands in support of mothers of players — or women in general — fighting breast cancer.

Longtime Butler athletic assistant coach and teacher Julie Baccanti is also battling the disease and the Golden Tornado soccer program has unified in support of her.

Each year, Butler has a Saturday known as Soccer Fest, where all of the Golden Tornado soccer teams play an opponent, one right after the other, to celebrate the sport.

So ... how about something like this?

The eight Butler County varsity high school girls soccer teams schedule a Saturday in October where the square off with each other — all of the games being at the same site — as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Knoch's girls are having a down year, but traditionally have a very solid program. The records of the other seven teams entering this weekend are outstanding: Butler is 11-4, Seneca Valley 11-3-1, Mars 13-0-1, Freeport 12-3, North Catholic 10-4, Slippery Rock 11-2-1 and Karns City 13-0-1.

Seneca Valley plays Butler and Mars plays Knoch twice a year in section anyway. Have the schedule-makers slate one of those match-ups for the same site on the same Saturday.

Karns City and Slippery Rock played to a 2-2 double-overtime tie in a thriller. Freeport nipped Slippery Rock earlier this season. So how about the other two games being KC vs. Slippery Rock and Freeport vs. North Catholic?

You want to mix things up? Mars could play Seneca Valley, Knoch could play Butler, North Catholic could play Karns City, whatever.

Find a business willing to sponsor the day, each school can provide names in their communities battling breast cancer, the names could be put on the back of a pink t-shirt with a logo of the event — Butler County Soccer Kicking Cancer — or something to that effect.

The shirts could be sold all day and/or night at the event, along with having a basket raffle, Chinese auction, or something similar as another means of raising donations to fight breast cancer.

The public would witness tremendous soccer competition and a positive atmosphere that would bring the entire county together for a day to stare down a dreadful disease.

Hey ... just a thought.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle