Article updated: 12/3/2012 10:38 AM

Libertyville travel team hosts unique fundraiser for New Year’s

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Randy Splitt, facility manager for the Libertyville Sports Complex, talks to Dara Dietmeyer and Colleen Scopacasa, right, about the set up for an overnight New Year's Eve celebration for fifth- to eighth-graders. The event is a fundraiser for a youth baseball team.

Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer

Dara Dietmeyer, left, and Colleen Scopacasa, both of Libertyville, are organizing an overnight New Year's Eve celebration for fifth- to eighth-graders at the Libertyville Sports Complex. Proceeds will help pay the expenses for the Libertyville Wildcats 12U Orange baseball team's trip to Cooperstown, N.Y. next year.

Steve Lundy | Staff Photographer

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The Libertyville 12U Orange traveling baseball team has been accepted to play next summer in Cooperstown, N.Y. Getting there is another matter, though, so the team has come up with a novel way to help raise the $12,000 in trip expenses: promoting an overnight New Year's Eve celebration for kids at the Libertyville Sports Complex.