These boys are saying theyre wanting to walk away from the game they love.. RT @TylerCesarski90: I am happy to officially announce I will be transferring to Bellaire, Episcopal High School! SEE ALSO: Bellaire baseball program under 2 investigations regarding discrimination. Additionally, the baseball players also yelled to Westbury student, "we got bananas!". Stats are entered by the coach or designated team statistician in the admin. I wasnt. The junior-high boys were at it again this evening breaking records set earlier in the week in the 4x800-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay. "Wrong is wrong, and right is right, and we want to make sure all our children, and adults on campus are safe, and feel like we have an environment that is welcoming all individuals regardless of who they are and what they look like.". 3. GOP leaders say ballot shortage was targeted at Republicans. I mean, Id just snap sometimes. Hed rant and rave in the dugout, ram his bat into the ground before flinging it down the foul line, throw helmets everywhere. They hoped Coach Nick Ozuna would send a clear message to other players. Hes a true leadoff hitter, says Willie Randolph, the teams third-base coach and its former leadoff-hitting second baseman. Knoblauch was a pitcher with the Texas League's Shreveport club Copyright 2023 KTRK-TV. Spring Bellaire Cardinals Varsity Baseball Season Welcome to the Bellaire Baseball team feed. For 18 years Coach Ozuna has led the Belaire Baseball team and had one of the most winning programs in Texas. The only people that need to know about me are my family.. After each pitch, he performs a bizarre ritual: He steps out of the batters box, tugs at the shoulder of his uniform jersey, unwraps and rewraps the Velcro of his batting gloves, pounds his bat against his cleats to knock loose dirt, stares at his bat, mumbles something to himself, and then finally steps back in. Welcome to the Bellaire Baseball team feed. ", Rhone said nearby students began teasing her son for his hair, saying, "The other students in the hallway start to make fun of my son and laugh, and the coach started laughing with the other children.". A mother is angry over the fact her son was told hed need to ditch his afro in order to play baseball in the spring. Any allegation that Coach Ozuna has any racial animus is false. 28 Apr 2023 00:42:53 The issue goes back to a baseball game on March 25, between Westbury and Bellaire and allegations of racist taunting. Rhone said her ninth-grader left Bellaire High School's baseball program and transferred out of the school after she said Ozuna discriminated against him for his afro hairstyle. He was all business on the ball field. Leave them blank to get signed up. The school has won nine State Championships and has produced numerous major league baseball players. "It is the district's responsibility to do their part to ensure that this type of behavior, this type of insensitivity that's happening, does not happen again," said Dr. Matthews with the Rainbow Push Coalition. Quanell X says the parents wanted the coach to suspend the player accused of making the sounds immediately. Blueford-Daniels, who voted to deny the coach'sgrievance,said she cannot support an environment in which childrenare throwing outracial epithets and telling other kids that they should "continue to cut grass and sell tacos.
