Moore to enter state Hall of Fame
From staff reports

Appalachian State head football coach Jerry Moore will be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame May 14 in a ceremony to be held in Raleigh.

Moore is one of six people to be inducted. North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell, former Enloe High and North Carolina State running back Willie Burden, former ACC commissioner and North Carolina athletics director John Swofford, former Wake Forest and Durham High basketball coach Dave Odom and 1969, 1975 and 1976 North Carolina Open champion golfer Roger Watson will also be inducted.

Moore, who enters his 21st season this fall, coached Appalachian State to three Division I-AA/Football championship Subdivision national championships from 2005-07. Last year, he guided the Mountaineers to their fourth straight Southern Conference title, which included a 70-24 victory over Wofford on national television.

Moore is the all-time winningest coach in Southern Conference history.

More honors for players
Headlined by first-team selections quarterback Armanti Edwards, defensive back Mark LeGree and linebacker Jacque Roman, five Appalachian State football players have received 2009 NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision preseason all-America recognition from Consensus Draft Services.

In addition to Edwards, LeGree and Roman, offensive lineman Mario Acitelli and defensive back Cortez Gilbert were honorable-mention selections.

While the honors are the first of the year, the five Mountaineers are certainly no strangers to accolades. All five received all-America plaudits following last season’s 11-3 campaign, led by consensus first-team honorees Edwards and LeGree (The Sports Network tabbed Roman to its first team, Gilbert to its second team and Acitelli as an honorable-mention selection).

Five ink with ASU women
Appalachian State’s women’s basketball team signed four players to letters of intent Wednesday.

The Mountaineers signed Ashlen Dewart of Dorman High in Spartanburg, S.C., Anna Freeman of East Davidson High in Thomasville, Courtney Freeman of Madison County High in Danielsville, Ga., and Kelsey Sharkey of Saint Ursula High in Cincinnati.

Dewart, a 6-foot-3 forward, earned all-state honors and was named one of the top five players in South Carolina. She was an McDonald’s All-American nominee and was named to the Adidas top-64 players list in her final three years at Dorman.

“Ashlen is definitely going to be our inside presence,” Mountaineers coach Darcie Vincent said. “She’s a big girl with great hands and we are expecting big things.”

Anna Freeman, a 6-0 forward, was a four-year letter winner in three sports and named conference player of the year in basketball for three years. She also earned all-state honors in basketball and was the 2-A state championship MVP.

“Anna has a championship mentality,” Vincent said. “She can play small forward for us and she can shoot the ball very well.”

Courtney Freeman, a 5-11 guard/forward, was all-state in her freshman, sophomore and junior seasons and was also a McDonald’s All-American nominee. She scored her 1,000th point as a sophomore, scored over 2,000 in her prep career, and was valedictorian of her class.

“She’s going to add a lot of rebounding abilities to the team,” Vincent said. “She attacks the rim really well and she can put the ball in the basket.”

Sharkey, a forward, was a four-year letter winner in basketball and was named all-city honorable mention.

“Kelsey is a great rebounder as well, and will box out every time,” Vincent said.