'No one fights alone': Nipmuc, St. Paul softball teams rally around Dudley teen battling brain cancer

UPTON — At a field filled with strangers Wednesday afternoon, David Breault felt a swell of support behind him. Nearly six months after the 19-year-old from Dudley was diagnosed with a brain tumor, the Nipmuc and St. Paul softball squads teamed up for a ‘ Fight Like A Kid ’ game to help raise money for Breault — a 2025 Shepherd Hill graduate who finds himself in a fight with cancer.

“My whole life has been turned upside down, but it’s been a learning experience, and it hasn’t been all bad,” Breault told the T&G. “… I would’ve never experienced something like this, and to have these people support me and try to raise money for me and my family so that we can get the treatment that I need that will help me the best (is crazy). “It really means so much to me and my family.

” 'It's bigger than basketball': Community rallies around 5-year-old from Sutton with cancer A gut-wrenching diagnosis As David Breault began his freshman year at Franklin Pierce University this past fall, the avid runner started to experience blurry vision and headaches during his cross-country season with the Ravens. “Some days I would wake up and start throwing up at five in the morning,” Breault said. “I’d have headaches throughout the day, in class, during a lecture.

So, I finally went to the hospital. ” “Something didn’t feel right,” said his mother, Jill Conant. “I had a gut feeling something was off.