With a smile that summed up her afternoon, MacKenzie Reed hopped out of a Franklin Township fire truck shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon.

However, the 9-year-old from Lehighton didn't just get to sit in it.The truck was her ride from the fire station to Phifer Ice Dam Park, where she was the guest of honor at the 30th annual Franklin Township Old-Timers Softball Game.Funds raised at the game will benefit Reed, who was born prematurely at 24 weeks and spent the next three months in the hospital.She's legally blind in her left eye and recently stopped using a feeding tube which she needed since she was eight months old.Before the first pitch of the game, pitting a Franklin Township squad against their foes from Jim Thorpe, Reed made her way to the pitcher's mound and got a visit from Smokey Bear, who handed her a baseball.Shortly after, she fired the first pitch of the afternoon toward home plate.“Thank you everybody, play ball,” Reed said.Funds were raised throughout the game in various methods such as concession sales, a bake sale, a Chinese auction and a 50-50 raffle.While a final number is still being tallied, Franklin Township Athletic Association President Wayne Wentz said the total money raised over the 30-year history of the game should now be close to or over $115,000.For more on the game, read the print edition of the Times News.