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.