March 09, 2019 at 05:51AM
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — All the basketball teams in town for the Ingles Southern Conference Basketball Championships bring some important teammates with them -- their mascots.
And Friday, those mascots, along with some cheerleaders, visited Mission Children's Hospital.
As the UNC Greensboro Spartan "Spiro", The Citadel's bulldog Spike and the University of Tennessee Chattanooga's mascot Scrappy Moc made the rounds, they visited one young man from Pisgah Forest who was getting ready to have his appendix removed.
"It makes me feel not as afraid as I was before about the surgery, but now I don't feel as scared," said Derek, who was wearing a new UNCG shirt.
Derek said he traded his Clemson shirt for it.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — All the basketball teams in town for the Ingles Southern Conference Basketball Championships bring some important teammates with them -- their mascots.
And Friday, those mascots, along with some cheerleaders, visited Mission Children's Hospital.
As the UNC Greensboro Spartan "Spiro", The Citadel's bulldog Spike and the University of Tennessee Chattanooga's mascot Scrappy Moc made the rounds, they visited one young man from Pisgah Forest who was getting ready to have his appendix removed.
"It makes me feel not as afraid as I was before about the surgery, but now I don't feel as scared," said Derek, who was wearing a new UNCG shirt.
Derek said he traded his Clemson shirt for it.