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May 29, 2018

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MAY 30-JUNE 5, 2018 UCW 21 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Hope Mills News & Views NEWS Dr. Christopher Dague has long been on the path to be a college professor. But he'll take many pleas- ant memories with him from his 13-year detour as a teacher and coach at Jack Britt High School. Dague, the baseball coach at Britt, will be leaving the school at the end of this year to become a profes- sor at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He got his Ph.D from North Carolina State University in 2015 and has continued coaching baseball and teaching at Britt, along with doing some teaching for Camp- bell University. "I've told a lot of people, it's bittersweet,'' he said. "For me it's more about the fact that this school and the people here will always mean more to me than I will ever mean to it.'' Dague said he can't imagine ever teaching high school anywhere other than Britt. "It's a place that has such incredible expectations of the faculty, stu- dents and athletics,'' he said. "It's special here. I can't really describe it.'' He has a similar feeling for his new job at e Citadel, where he'll teach educational psychol- ogy and curriculum instruction to both cadets and graduate students. "I'm going to an institution with an incredible and historic tradition,'' Dague said. "Hopefully the information I'm going to provide to those students will impact students across South Carolina.'' Dague is the only base- ball coach in Britt history to win a share of a conference title. at happened last year. ere is no baseball or coaching in his immediate future at e Citadel, and it's something he will miss. "It's the last connection with my father,'' said Dague. "I lost him in 2002. I thought a lot about him over the last couple of days. It's been such a great opportunity for me. I'm going to leave the door open.'' Jack Britt named Steve Clabaugh as its new baseball coach. Clabaugh is a former coach at Seventy-First and Overhills High School and has been an assistant at Britt for three years. In a prepared statement, Clabaugh said, "I am honored and am very excited about my new role in the Jack Britt baseball program. I'm inheriting a pro- gram with a strong tradition of excellence, thanks to the hard work of some great coaches who have come before me. "I'm really looking forward to working with this great group of young men, parents, administration and community.'' Dague departs Jack Britt for The Citadel by EARL VAUGHAN JR. Dr. Christopher Dague Steve Clabaugh Mike Moses Jr. brings a rich connection with bas- ketball to his new job as head boys coach at South View High School. Moses, who comes to South View after coaching the St. Pauls High School girls last year, takes over from Wendell Wise, who stepped down earlier this year. Moses played high school basketball in Detroit before going to Eastern Michigan and eventually playing basketball at Fayetteville State. He coached for six years with Alphonza Kee at Fayetteville State, who is now head coach at Cape Fear. He worked briefly with Nike conducting basketball camps and also taught at Trinity Chris- tian School in Fayetteville before getting back into coaching at St. Pauls last year. He took a team that was 3-25 the previous year and guided them to a 13-11 record. When the South View job opened, he was im- mediately interested. "I'm totally familiar with the success of South View,'' he said of the school whose gymnasium is named for former coach Ron Miller. e Tiger program has slumped in recent years, and Moses thinks it needs not rebuilding but what he calls rebranding. "You bring in a new coach, you bring in new philosophies,'' he said. "I have an energy that's unmatched. I'm super passionate about this game.'' Moses said his father, Mike Moses Sr., coaches at the collegiate level and was a college player himself for St. John's in the mid-1980s. "I'm going to bring it every day,'' he said. "Your players feed off that. I'm going to set a standard and expectation, and it starts with me.'' Moses said he planned to hold his first meeting with the players at South View last week. He already has a plan set for offseason workouts. He wants the team to condition on Tuesdays and ursdays and practice on Mondays and Wednes- days during the summer. He also wants to get video of last year's South View team to familiarize himself with the return- ing players. "I'm an up and down guy,'' he said of his basket- ball philosophy. "I'm trying to get a shot in the first seven seconds of a possession. We want to score in transition. It requires a lot of talent to come down every possession and get a basket in a set play.'' Mike Moses Jr. named South View basketball coach by EARL VAUGHAN JR. Mike Moses Jr.

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