ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, January 30, 1997 TAG: 9701300052
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BOB TEITLEBAUM STAFF WRITER
There is activity on the Piedmont District football coaching scene as Patrick County's Jim Hall and Laurel Park's Eddie Crabtree have resigned their positions. Meanwhile, a veteran coach is returning.
Hall left Patrick County at the end of the first semester last week and he'll be replaced by Addison Kendrick, the coach he replaced a year ago. Kendrick this week returned to teaching at the Stuart school.
Kendrick, who applied for the football coaching vacancy at Lord Botetourt, will head a program that in 1994 made the playoffs under his direction for the first time in school history. The Cougars lost to Salem 28-6 in the Region III Division 4 first round.
Kendrick left coaching after the 1995 season. Hall, who had been an assistant coach at Fieldale-Collinsville, took over for Kendrick. Patrick County was 1-9 with a young team this past year.
Hall previously coached Bassett in the 1994 season. The Bengals performed above expectations, going 7-5 and losing to William Campbell 30-0 in the Region III Division 3 championship game. The Bengals had not been expected to make the playoffs.
Hall left Bassett to help Richard Savedge as Fieldale-Collinsville's offensive coordinator. Hall confirmed that he had resigned and refused to elaborate on the reasons, as did officials at Patrick County. Hall also was a candidate for previous head coaching jobs at Franklin County and Patrick Henry.
Kendrick is one of many to apply for the head coaching vacancy at Lord Botetourt. Others include Savedge; former Patrick County and Franklin County coach Dean East; Pulaski County assistant Paul Wheeler; former Virginia Tech and Ferrum lineman Tom Hall, now an assistant at Lakeland in Suffolk; Paul Scott White, an assistant with the Fork Union Military Academy graduate program; Franklin County assistant Jeff Leftwich; and former Liberty and Appomattox County coach Joe Fraley.
Crabtree went 7-23 in three seasons at Laurel Park with a 1-9 record this past season. He replaced John Kovack, who switched to athletic director.
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