Senegal to run in NCAA meet
Published 9:30 am Thursday, June 8, 2023
- Halyn Senegal will run in the 4x400-meter relay for the University of Nevada at the NCAA Track and Field Championships on Saturday at the University of Texas.
Former Saint Louis Catholic and Sam Houston High track star Halyn Senegal will compete at the NCAA Track and Field championship meet tonight.
Senegal will run a leg on the University of Nevada’s 4×400 relay team at 10:48 p.m. at the University of Texas in Austin. The top nine teams qualify for the final, to be run Saturday.
Nevada qualified with a school-record time of 3 minutes, 33.85 seconds at last week’s NCAA West Preliminary Meet, which was also run in Austin.
Senegal, a redshirt freshman, qualified individually for the preliminary meet in the 800-meter race, finishing 25th. She was named to the All-Big West team in both the indoor and outdoor seasons.
She and relay team members Emily Costello, Annalies Kalma and Carolyn Ross will earn all-American honors if the team finishes in the top 16 at the NCAA championships.
MOVING UP: Former Sulphur High and McNeese State baseball player Will Dion was promoted on Tuesday to Class Double-A Akron by the Cleveland Guardians.
Dion, a left-handed pitcher, will make his first start with the RubberDucks today at the Portland Sea Dogs. He was 3-0 with a 1.87 ERA in nine appearances at Class A Lake County.
In three minor league seasons, Dion, a ninth-round pick in the 2021 amateur draft, is 11-5 with a 1.92 ERA and 219 strikeouts in 174 innings pitched.
BENGAL BALLERS: LSU-Eunice pitcher Chloe Bennett, a Rosepine High graduate, and infielder Maci Baldwin, a Sam Houston graduate, were named to the National Junior College Athletic Association All-Region 23 team.
Bennett received the honor for a second consecutive season after going 25-7 with a 2.43 ERA. She tied her school record for strikeouts in a season with 240 and has signed to play at Southeastern Louisiana next season.
Baldwin, also a sophomore, hit .364 and set a school record with 60 stolen bases. She also led the team in hits with 64 and runs scored with 63. She set a school record with 94 career stolen bases.