
FROM MIKE TENNEY’S BELLAIRE SPORTS DESK • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Major news from former
Cardinal baseball stars
Chris Young
graduate and baseball standout, is
League Baseball with a one-year, $2
million dollar deal with the Los Angeles
Angels of Anaheim. Young, who has
spent the last two years with the Boston
and the Angels will be the sixth major
league team he has been a member of.
League Eastern Division title, and hit
reports, Young will start the season as the
The Minnesota Twins, halfway through
spring training last month, were still
trying to determine whether former
starter would in the
starting rotation or whether he would
be coming out of the bullpen to start the
three appearances out of the bullpen,
has said he will do whatever is best for
the team, but also said he was hoping
to get a starting opportunity. The Twins
signed two free-agent pitchers during
into spring training looking for one more
starting pitcher...
Rean Vanderbilt
HS graduate, is a junior with the Texas
Concordia University women’s track
thrower for the Tornadoes, meaning she
can compete in the discus or shot put or
even the javelin for her team. The 5-foot-
athlete as she also played on the Texas
Concordia University as a freshman in
The Katy Tompkins basketball team
when they fell to Allen in overtime in San
former Episcopal HS head coach Bobby
Sanders. Sanders guided the Knights for
-
rent head coach Wayne Jones. Tompkins
has been playing varsity basketball
Katy ISD school to ever make it to a state
championship basketball game in Texas.
With April here and the track and
Cardinals did have a few of the stronger
into the district meet. Marathon man
Koket Jimata entered Bellaire’s track
postseason in contention for a possible
district championship, if not more, in the
three long distance running events — the
Jimata began April with the second
he was close enough to possibly make
it interesting when things count. The
leaving him three seconds behind the
pace-setter from Westbury. Jimata is
he is just two seconds away from the top
He and the competitor from Lamar are
the only two runners in the district to go
Bellaire junior Christian Njoku had the
thrower from Chavez. Senior sprinter
Christian Wise had the fourth fastest
where tight races means anything can
happen...
lineman DeVonte Jones is working
season after a season-ending injury in
what had been a on-the-rise career for
the Bellaire HS graduate. Jones originally
signed with Baylor and even participated
to SFA shortly afterwards and played as a
redshirt freshman with the Lumberjacks
year, he appeared to have won the
starting right tackle job before he was
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