The following article appeared in the October 5 issue of the New Haven Register.

By Dave Solomon
Register Sports Columnist

HAMDEN — OK, so Rand Pecknold was a little scary to his year-old daughter, Cecilia, Saturday. But she’ll come around.

Pecknold, along with his entire Quinnipiac hockey team and select members of the university community, had their heads shaved as part of a St. Baldrick’s Foundation fund-raiser Saturday that netted in excess of $25,000 — more than 2 1/2 times the original goal and five times greater than Pecknold ever suspected when he first signed on to raise money to combat children’s cancer.

We won’t be so cold as to say that the looks of some of the hockey players were truly improved by the buzz cut — though it is so — but to a man, they would tell you that the sacrifice of a head of hair was miniscule compared to the cause. Little Brent McCreesh, the 6-year-old Southport neighbor of Pecknold, was the inspiration behind the “Blades and Shaves” fund-raising event that took place outside the TD Banknorth Sports Center Saturday, and he recently passed his third year in remission of neuroblastoma, a rare cancer of the nervous system that is typically found in young children.

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