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Orangeburg Prep adds few coaches for 2010-11

By David Shelton

Staff Writer

Orangeburg – Orangeburg Prep athletic director Todd Layton recently announced the hiring of several new coaches for the upcoming school year. However, for the most part, the coaching staff remains intact from last year.

Layton says Gordon Kirby will be the school’s new volleyball coach, handling both the junior varsity and varsity teams this fall. Boy’s basketball coach Rip Ripley will add cross country duties to his ledger this fall.

Taking over the girl’s tennis program this fall will be Nancy Nance and Marsh Stark will be the boy’s golf coach.

“We don’t have a lot of turnover and change because this is a good place to coach and work,” says Layton. “We have a lot of quality people wanting jobs but have few openings.”

Layton will continue in his duties as baseball coach in the spring. He also continues to coach the bowling teams in the winter. The girl’s bowling team won the state championship this past year.

Alan Huntley will continue in his role of boy’s soccer coach while Amyer Rojas will return as the girl’s soccer coach.

Adam Holmes returns this fall as the varsity football coach. Layton will head up the junior varsity program.

Jan Stoudenmire will coach varsity and junior varsity girl’s basketball once again while also continuing to coach the varsity softball team in the spring.

Al Hay is the head coach of the junior varsity baseball team and Angie Patterson is the head coach of the junior varsity softball team.

Boo Gray heads up the sporting clays team. Sporting clays is gaining in popularity and Orangeburg Prep is competing in their third season.

Howie Bayer is the team’s wrestling coach and Jason Cote will be back to coach boy’s and girl’s track. Ann Edwards resumes her role as cheerleading coach.

“Our numbers are great in terms of kids wanting to compete in athletics,” said Layton. “We have 46 teams total from middle school to varsity. That’s a lot of kids participating in some form of athletics and that bodes well for the overall program in the future.”

 

 

ird quarter of Monday's defensive struggle. After the Swampcats took the lead, OP countered with a scoring drive capped by Walker Smith's 49-yard scoring dash and Evan Salley's PAT kick with 3:24 to go in the third quarter.


Neither team scored again in regulation but the Swampcats had a shot to win in the waning seconds, but a 45-yard field goal with four seconds left came up short.


In OT, LMA drew first blood and had a 14-7 lead. The Indians got five yards from Smith on a first-down run, but that was a close as they would get to forcing the game to another OT round.


Smith has 516 yards rushing and six TDs on 96 carries so far. Cap Thackston and Michael Shriver have both seen action at quarterback. Thackston is 27-for-51 passing for 321 yards and one TD, while Shriver is 21-for-46 for 260 yards. The leading receivers are Sean Odom (13-163) and Trey Kyzer (10-74).


Salley has yet to miss a kick. He is 6-for-6 in PATs and 2-for-2 in field goals.


Thacker Staley is the leader on defense. The junior linebacker has 114 tackles, 5 TFL, 2 interceptions and 1 fumble recovery on the books. The other notables on defense include Smith (92 tackles, 1 interception), James Burns (84 tackles), Salley (56 tackles, 3 TFL, 2 sacks, 19 QB hurries) and Kyzer (54 tackles, 5 passes broken up).