Published: 10:32 PM, Sun Jun 13, 2010
Prep notes: Trinity Christian hires volleyball coach
Trinity Christian School has hired Julie Thomas as the school's volleyball coach.
The announcement was made Thursday by Trinity athletic director Heath Vandevender.
Thomas is a 1994 graduate of Westover High School and a 2000 graduate of UNC-Pembroke.
She has coached middle school volleyball at West Hoke and East Hoke from 2006-2009. She won conference titles at both schools.
In a prepared statement, Vandevender called Thomas a "high character young lady," adding that the school's volleyball program would improve and he looked forward to working with her for years to come.
South View High School will hold the fourth annual Ron Miller Invitational basketball scrimmage on June 28-30, Monday through Wednesday.
Scrimmages will begin at 9 a.m. each day and continue until 9 p.m. Admission to all scrimmages is free.
This year's field will include 23 teams. Local teams scheduled to play, including the host Tigers, are Terry Sanford, Pine Forest, Cape Fear, Westover and Douglas Byrd.
Teams from around the state that will be taking part are Wilmington Hoggard, Wilmington Ashley, Wilmington Laney, Apex, Chapel Hill, Cardinal Gibbons, Midway, Union, Heide Trask, Southern Lee and Raleigh Millbrook.
For a complete schedule of games and opponents for the scrimmages, go to www.southviewbasketball. com.
Bobby Guthrie, who has ties to the Cape Fear region, has won a major honor from the National Federation of State High School Associations.
Guthrie, senior administrator for athletics and driver education for the Wake County Schools, has been chosen the National Federation's 2010 Coach Educator of the Year.
Guthrie is a member of the N.C. High School Athletic Association Board of Directors and also assisted with some state championship events this past school year.
Guthrie spent the early days of his career in education as a teacher and baseball coach at Scotland High School. In 1977, he coached Scotland to the state 4-A baseball title.
A number of Cape Fear region players have been selected to take part in this year's North Carolina State Games softball competition.
Five players were picked to the East team that will take on a West squad.
The five include Jack Britt's Caitlin Sandy, Scotland's Brittany Gibson, Lee County's Ashley Poulin and Harnett Central's Jessi Lane and Tori Williford. Scotland's Patrick Williams is an assistant coach for the team.
Most of the region players picked for the game were named to the Region 4 team. The list includes Cape Fear's Beth Blackburn, Cape Fear Christian Academy's Casey Taylor and Ragan Taylor, Scotland's Shaquiaonna Barnes, Whitney Britt, Cory Newton and Lindsey Wright, South View's April Costa and Clarissa Pitts, Jack Britt's Jessica Crist and McKenzie Weaver, Triton's Kendall Tart and Mariah Wright of Cross Creek Early College. Wright plays for South View.
Stuart Gilmer of Gray's Creek is head coach of the Region 4 team.
One region player was named to the Region 2 team, Amber Bass of Hobbton.
The East and West All-Star teams will play a best-of-three series on Thursday, June 24, at UNC-Charlotte. Games will be at 2, 4 and 6 p.m.
The various region all-star teams, a total of eight, will be divided into two four-team brackets and compete in pool play on June 21-22. Games will be at UNC-Charlotte and Huntersville's Hopewell High School.
The regional tournament will conclude June 23 with the four teams in each bracket playing their matching seed from the other bracket.
The bronze medal game will be at 5 p.m. and the gold medal game at 7 p.m.
For a full schedule of all the games, go to www.ncsports.org and click on the links to high school softball.
Aaron Reynolds of Trinity Christian School has signed a national letter-of-intent to play football for Virginia Union.
The signing was announced by Trinity athletic director Heath Vandevender.
Reynolds was an all-state selection for Trinity's unbeaten state championship 8-man football team. He was selected to play in the Oasis Shrine Bowl for private school players from North and South Carolina.
Reynolds, who is 6-2, 260, is expected to play defensive end for Virginia Union.
Last season he recorded 52 tackles, 19 of them for losses and nine sacks.
"Aaron has a dominating spirit which will enable him to make an immediate impact for the Panthers,'' said Trinity coach Randal Webster in a prepared statement.
Scholastic sports editor Earl Vaughan Jr. can be reached at vaughane@fayobserver.com or 486-3519.