PROVO — BYU's football program has picked up a verbal commitment from a high school linebacker.
Lene Lesatele, a 6-foot-2, 230-pounder from Gahr High in Cerritos, Calif., committed Thursday to coach Bronco Mendenhall, according to totalbluesports.com. He also had scholarship offers from Washington, Hawaii, Air Force and Nevada.
Lesatele becomes the ninth player to commit to the Cougars as part of their 2011 recruiting class.
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Jeff Call has been a sportswriter for the Deseret News since 1997. He is the BYU beat writer and has been covering Cougar sports since 1993, when he served as sports editor at the Daily Universe. Call has written several more ..
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