CHATTER: DEATH OF FORMER TEAMMATE STUNS BELL-JEFF.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer It was an emotional week for the Bell-Jeff High boys' basketball team, which is trying to come to grips with the sudden death of former teammate Lawrence Jenkins, who collapsed during basketball practice Monday night at Ribet Academy. Jenkins, 17, transferred from Bell-Jeff to Ribet Academy this summer. He played with the Guards for three years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time past two on the varsity. ``The transfer was the best thing for him, but he's one of ours, he's a Bell-Jeff kid,'' said Bell-Jeff coach Eli Essa. Essa and his players learned of the tragedy Monday. Some of the Guards players went to the hospital to offer support. Bell-Jeff canceled its game Tuesday. ``He was still very much a part of our family,'' a shocked Essa said. ``It's just a devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. , devastating loss. He was one of the few kids I've coached that never swore and never had facial expressions when things weren't going well. He was just a sweet, sweet kid.'' Jenkins, a 6-foot-4 senior, was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m. Monday at Glendale Memorial Hospital after he was transported from the school by ambulance. Essa saw Jenkins last week, and promised he would come by to watch him play this year. ``I told him when they were playing and we had a day off, I'd bring the guys by so they could cheer him on,'' Essa said. ``You know, people talk about mild-mannered kids, but Lawrence really was. He was the sweetest kid I ever coached. This is just a painful loss. And this was going to be his year, I really believed that he was going to have a fantastic year.'' . . . Former Bell-Jeff star Ruben Douglas Ruben Enrique Douglas (born October 30, 1979 in Pasadena, California, U.S.) is a Panamaian-American professional basketball player currently with Pamesa Valencia of the ACB, the premier professional basketball league in Spain. , who was granted his release from the University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. in November, is expected to land soon at another school. Douglas, a 6-4 shooting guard The Shooting guard (SG), also known as the two or off guard,[1] is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. , has trimmed his list to four: New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). , Oklahoma, Villanova and Georgia. Interestingly, former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX coach Jim Harrick, who was interested in Douglas while he was at Bell-Jeff, is now the coach at Georgia. Douglas will visit each school, then make a final choice around Christmas. . . . Omelogo Udeze, a two-time Daily News all-star girls' basketball player at Harvard-Westlake, is getting significant minutes as a freshman at Fresno State. Udeze, a 6-1 forward, scored a team-high 15 points last week in the Bulldogs' victory over Boston University. . . . Hoover grad Mark Hull is a sophomore starter on the UC Santa Barbara basketball team. He was in town Tuesday, scoring 11 points and grabbing five rebounds in the Gauchos' 94-73 loss to USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . Hull will be joined next year by current Simi Valley standout Branduinn Fullove. The Gauchos might also want to consider recruiting Fullove's teammate Brett Michel, whose fast start this year is drawing notice. Michel had 39 points, including seven 3-pointers, in Tuesday's 97-74 win over Granada Hills. The Pioneers already look in midseason form. . . . The Cal State Northridge baseball team added six players during the early signing period in November. All are incoming freshmen, four are position players, the other two are pitchers. The new players are: Ryan Mask (RHP rhp abbr. rated horsepower ), Garces Memorial High; Justin Fortugno (RHP), Fountain Valley High; Bill Wright (3B), Garces Memorial High; Sam Sandoval (IF) St. Francis High; Sean McElroy (OF) El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
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