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Cribb likes direction of Hemingway athletics

By David Shelton

Staff Writer

Hemingway – As he enters his seventh year at Hemingway High School, athletic director and head football coach Ken Cribb likes the direction his program is headed as a whole.

Hemingway was particularly outstanding in two sports in 2009-10. The football team posted an 11-2 record and advanced to the class A lower state championship game. The Tigers were among the top five teams all season long in class A before bowing out just a game short of the state title game.

The boy’s basketball team went two steps further, not only winning the lower state championship but capturing the class A state title with a championship game win over Great Falls.

“Seeing that team win that state title was pretty special,” says Cribb. “We had a great year in athletics overall. Our numbers are good. We do okay in terms of getting the kids out to participate.”

As the summer winds down, Cribb is focused on the 2010 football season. The Tigers lost 18 seniors from last year’s team but do return a solid core of players that saw significant playing time last season.

“We lost some good players but we have a few good ones coming back so we expect to be competitive once again,” said Cribb. “We return a lot of juniors and some of them played a lot for us. We’ll be ready.”

Hemingway opens the season against Hannah-Pamplico.

One part of Cribb’s job as athletic director is to hire coaches for the other sports when openings become available. That does not happen too often at Hemingway but the staff will have a new head coach this spring.

Taking over the softball program will be Jonathan Montross, who was an assistant on the team last year. The other sports remain the same. Tara Richardson will coach volleyball and Barry McFadden returns as the boy’s basketball coach.

Chakaris Thomas is the girl’s basketball coach and Marty Avant is the baseball coach. Travoy McCullough will coach boy’s track and Betty Sellers will coach the girl’s team.

Cribb’s football staff remains intact as well. Avant returns as the defensive coordinator while Cribb handles the offense. Other returning members of the football staff, which includes junior varsity as well, are Bucky Davis, Barney Davis, Jody Cook and Clay Owens. Montross will also assist with the football program.

 

 

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The Tigers (0-1) take on St. James this Friday and the Sharks are also looking for a victory. They?re coming off a 19-14 loss to Waccamaw.

?They?ve got a good football team,? Cribb said. ?They run the Wing-T, some spread and some misdirection. They?ve got one of the better underclassman quarterbacks (Chase Smith) in the state. He looks like Baby Tebow out there.?

The Tigers only returned four starters to begin with and only two of those are back at their original positions.

?We?re still trying to find ourselves and get everybody in the right spots,? Cribb said.

The lone score in the Kingstree game came on a short rollout pass from quarterback Justin Pressley to Quintin Brown, who also had a decent game in the secondary.

Sophomore Jabril Solomon had a solid performance in the secondary too and linebacker Kenneth Moore recovered a fumble.

But Kingstree scored with three minutes left to win the game.

?We?ve still got a lot of work to do but we?re going to get there,? Cribb said.

After traveling to St. James, the Tigers travel to C.E. Murray