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Notes: Skyhawks' Keels to Augusta State

Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 12:06 AM

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Skyhawks' Keels to Augusta State

All-Metro basketball first-team pick Travis Keels of L.C. Bird is the first signee of the year for Augusta State (Ga.) coach Dip Metress.

A slender, 6-7 forward, Keels averaged 13.7 points and 9.1 rebounds and 3 blocks a game for the Dominion District champion Skyhawks. He also was first-team all-Dominion District and all-Central Region.

Augusta State's Jaguars won 27 games last season and advanced to the NCAA Division II national championship game.

Extra year good for Temple, Phillips

Two area players who went to prep schools for a year have signed letters of intent.

Former King William All-Metro football running back Marcus Temple is bound for the University of Mississippi. Temple (5-8, 185) switched sides of the ball this year at Hargrave Military Academy and played defensive back. Mississippi recruited him as a DB.

Former Douglas Freeman basketball standout Ahyaro Phillips signed a letter of intent to play at the University of Nevada.

Phillips, 6-8 and 200 pounds, spent last season at Fork Union Military Academy in the school's postgraduate program. He led FUMA in rebounding and consistently scored in double figures. Phillips played only one season at Douglas Freeman. He relocated to the Richmond area with his mother after the two were displaced from the New Orleans area by Hurricane Katrina.

Before signing with Nevada, Phillips received scholarship offers from East Carolina, Duquesne, Winthrop and Charleston Southern. James Madison also was interested.

Where they are going

Many area high school athletes have made their college selections for next year.

Hanover football and wrestling standout Kirk Rohle (5-9, 180) will play football at Hampden-Sydney. Rohle was a first-team all-Capital District running back for two years. Hawks teammate Ben Rogers, a 6-foot, 240-pound offensive lineman, also is headed to H-SC to play football.

Multiple sports standout Courtney Long of Hanover is going to Longwood to play softball. Long also has contributed to the Hawks' success in volleyball and basketball.

John Marshall running back Jayvon Brownlee (6-0, 190) has signed with Northwest Mississippi Junior College. Brownlee rushed for more than 1,000 yards and made the All-Metro second team as a defensive back.

Second-team All-Metro linebacker Kevin White (6-3, 235) of King William will continue his football career at Randolph-Macon College. White was an all-district and all-region first-teamer.

Past All-Metro first-team soccer standout Kathleen Russell of Hanover will join travel team cohort Kristin Lescalleet of Atlee at the University of Richmond. Russell did not play school soccer this year.

Three Varina football players will be teammates at North Carolina Tech: running back/linebacker Rodney Roane, defensive end Dana Pitchford and wide receiver/linebacker Greg Caines. All-Metro second-team linebacker Darnell Sullivan will attend Newport News Apprentice.

All-Metro kicker Matt Pennington of Atlee has cast his lot with Liberty University. Raiders running back John Sparagna is bound for Old Dominion University, which is reviving its football program. Joe Reger, a long snapper, and Matt Sanders, a defensive end, are going to ODU as walk-ons. Another Raider, offensive guard Jim Cooper, will attend Ferrum College. - Arthur Utley, John O'Connor

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