STARKVILLE -- Carter Spexarth didn't know much about ovarian cancer before she lost a teammate and friend to the disease.
Spexarth grew up in The Woodlands, Texas, where she knew a couple people around her age who had leukemia. But ovarian cancer was viewed as an "old lady disease" and never really crossed Spexarth's mind.
Then she joined the Mississippi State softball team in the same recruiting class as Alex Wilcox, a Brantley, Alabama, standout who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 1
Theo DeRosa reports on Mississippi State sports for The Dispatch. Follow him on Twitter at @Theo_DeRosa.
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