UMO grad Hargrove named MVP during iBall Pro Combine men's championship

By UMO Media Relations
Published in Sports on June 18, 2015 1:48 PM

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Hargrove named MVP

MOUNT OLIVE -- University of Mount Olive graduate Kendall Hargrove earned Most Valuable Player honors during the recently-contested iBall Pro Combine men's championship.

Hargrove buried three second-half 3-pointers to help his team, The Maillie, rallied from a 12-point first-half deficit. He finished with 15 points, two steals and three dunks.

A 6-foot-3 small forward, Hargrove earned three major awards during his senior campaign -- 2014-15 Daktronics Division II All-Southeast Region, 2015 Southeast Regional MVP and the 2014-15 Conference Carolinas men's defensive player-of-the-year.

Hargrove provided 10.9 points and 8.7 rebounds for the Trojans, who set a single-season school record for wins (31) and advanced to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight for just the second time in program history.

-- UMO Media Relations

Coach charged

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) -- Authorities say a Forsyth County girls basketball coach has been arrested because he had sex with a student, getting her pregnant three years ago.

Investigators say Derrele Mitchell turned himself in to police on Wednesday and was released on bond.

Police say his relationship with the student happened in 2012. Investigators did not release details about why Mitchell was being arrested three years later.

Mitchell was coach of the R.J. Reynolds High girls team for two seasons starting in 2011.

Mitchell is charged with sexual offense with a student and indecent liberties with a student. It wasn't known if he had a lawyer.

Winston-Salem-Forsyth County Schools suspended Mitchell without pay on June 8. He is currently boys basketball coach at West Forsyth High School.