PORTLAND – The Portland Sea Dogs concluded its 2002 Strike Out Cancer in Kids fundraising campaign by raising $898,763 after a donation of $665,000 by the late John Rand.

Rand, of Dixfield, passed away Dec. 25, 2001, after an extended battle with two forms of cancer. Rand left his entire estate of $665,000 to the Strike Out Cancer in Kids Program.

The fundraiser benefited the Maine Children’s Cancer Program at Maine Medical Center in Portland.