Prep Notebook

Appomattox High School football coach Jeremy Haymore, who led the Raiders to an 8-3 record and Region B playoff berth and was selected as The News & Advance all-area coach of the year in his second season, resigned recently for unspecified personal reasons.

Haymore’s departure comes less than a month after athletic director Bob Hudson took a job in the recreation department at Virginia Tech.

King College signs three locals

Three area baseball players recently committed to continue their careers at King College, an NAIA school in Bristol, Tenn. Jefferson Forest senior shortstop Shane Timberlake and E.C. Glass shortstop Mike Bergin signed letters of intent on Thursday after JF catcher Josh Huffman committed in February.

Huffman also was named to the West team for the Virginia High School Coaches Association Senior All-Star Game that will take place July 3 at 2 p.m. at Christopher Newport University.

WC’s Watson signs at VWC

William Campbell senior Teron Watson, who averaged 17 points and eight rebounds per game and earned first-team all-Dogwood District honors this past season, signed a letter of intent this week to play for Virginia Wesleyan College, a Division III school in Virginia Beach.

The Marlins won the Old Dominion Athletic Conference regular-season title in 2006 and 2007, when it finished runner-up in the NCAA Division III tournament, and finished second to Guilford in both the regular season and tournament this past season.

Soccer squads suffer setbacks

It has been a season of injuries for several area soccer players. Liberty senior Eli White broke both the fibula and tibula in his lower leg during a game last week.

“He shattered them both,” first-year coach Thomas Fox said. “He’s a mouthpiece for our team and a four-year starter.”

Brookville’s girls team has struggled of late since losing sweeper Kelsey Thurman for the rest of the season with a knee injury and striker Claire Hayden with a pulled ligament near her knee. Senior leading scorer Nichole Smith sustained a concussion in Tuesday’s 2-0 loss to Liberty. She played in Wednesday’s rematch with the Minettes, another a 2-0 defeat, but wasn’t fully recovered from the injury.

VES spring teams rolling

Virginia Episcopal School’s boys lacrosse team, which ended the regular season on a 14-game winning streak, is ranked No. 2 in the latest Virginia Independent Schools, Division II, state poll. The Bishops host either Hargrave Military Academy, Miller School or North Cross in the first round of the Virginia Independent Conference tournament on Tuesday at 5 p.m.

For the first time in history, VES’s girls lacrosse team is ranked in the VIS state poll, debuting at sixth. And the Bishops’ boys tennis team is currently ranked third in the VIS Division II, behind only Hampton Roads Academy and Covenant.