New coaches in NCW 2B League

After an off-season of spinning, the football metformin hydrochloride 1000 mg coaching carousel will come to a stop on today in the Central Washington 2B League.

Five of the 10 NCW teams in the league’s two divisions will have new coaches in 2011.

Brewster, Manson, Waterville, Bridgeport and Pateros have all made changes at the top this off-season, and the moves have taken each program in a different direction.

The new coaches at Brewster (Brooks Smith) and Waterville (Mike Gray) are longtime football men, thrust back into their roles due to the timing of their predecessors’ departures.

Manson, Bridgeport and Pateros have all turned to first-time head coaches to lead their respective programs into the future.

“There’s going to be new coaches all over the place,” said Mike Hull, who led Pateros for eight seasons before opting to take this fall off from coaching.

Ed Ashworth, who led Brewster on an unlikely state tournament run in 2010, resigned in mid-July to take a teaching job in Okanogan, where he will also be an assistant to first-year coach Erick Judd.

Bears athletic director Dwight Pflugrath was short on options to replace Ashworth, who coached Brewster for nine seasons, so he turned to an old friend.

Smith, who coached at Okanogan in the late 1960s and early 1970s, agreed to shepherd the program for a year, with some conditions.

“Dwight came and talked to me and said that Brooks would only take the job if you assisted,” said Randy Phillips, who will coach the offense under Smith.

Phillips was lured out of retirement to coach the Bears’ girls basketball program last winter.

“I wasn’t interested in taking on more. I’m still trying to be retired,” he said. “It’s not going too well.”

At Bridgeport, Brandon Boyd, who came to the district to be the boys basketball coach last winter, will now lead the Mustangs on the gridiron as well, replacing Eric Schmidt, who resigned after two seasons.

Boyd was the assistant middle school coach last season.

“I hope to have our guys prepared to compete and put a few points on the board,” Boyd said.


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