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Mansfield softball coach Jay Harvill was arrested Thursday on suspicion of online solicitation of a minor by the attorney general’s Cyber Crimes Unit.

“Harvill initiated and conducted sexually graphic online chats with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl,” according to a statement from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office. “The ‘girl’ was actually an undercover police officer with the Cyber Crimes Unit.”

Harvill, 35, who coaches softball and volleyball and teaches world history and geography, was placed on paid administrative leave by the school district.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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San Elizario softball coach Peter Viola moved from softball to baseball, allowing track coach Lorena Hernandez to take over the Eagles' softball team. Viola replaces Marc Herrera, who left for El Paso Eastlake.

El Paso Times

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Brent Morris, who led Bushland to three straight Class 2A playoff appearances, accepted the softball coaching position at Amarillo High, Amarillo Independent School District athletic director Brad Thiessen said Saturday.

Morris accepted the position Wednesday, nearly a month after Thiessen announced Burleson's Perry Young had been chosen to replace former AHS coach Bo Dees, who went 21-40 in two seasons.

Amarillo Globe News

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Crystal O'Brien, a former standout softball player and championship coach, was recently named Gatesville's new softball coach.  Todd Shelton takes over the Gatesville boys basketball program.

The two replace Michelle and Brian Edwards — Michelle took the Waco Midway job while Brian, her husband, stepped down as head coach but remains at Gatesville as a girls basketball assistant.

Killeen Daily Herald News

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Plainview softball coach Stan Countryman will take over the reins next season at Lubbock Estacado.

Countryman, 51, has compiled a 198-124 career record in 12 years as a head coach. He spent the last seven seasons at Plainview, where he made the playoffs each of the past two years, and five seasons before that at Frenship.

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

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Ashley Ervin, a Paris North Lamar and Texas A&M-Commerce graduate, has been hired as Dodd City's volleyball and softball coach.  Ervin replaces Ashley Anderson for volleyball at Dodd City and fill the softball vacancy caused by Vicki Rogers' retirement.

Anderson will assist Ervin with both sports while also returning for her third season as girls basketball coach.

Sherman Herald-Democrat