By ROCKY STANLEY / The Independent
RUSSELL
Fri, May 16 2008
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Russell High School’s successful girls basketball coach of the past five years hopes to bring similar results to the boys program.
Merle Kidwell, who coached the Lady Devils to a 115-42 record, resigned as girls coach Monday morning and was hired to take over the boys team.
``This wasn’t a quick decision,’’ Kidwell said. ``It’s not easy to leave those girls, but I feel we left the program in good shape with six of the top eight players coming back.’’
Kidwell, 41, also has considerable high school coaching experience on the boys level and is looking forward to taking over for Steve Dodd, who resigned on the heels of a 3-26 season.
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Merle Kidwell was named the boys basketball coach at Russell on Monday.