National Highlight Reel: Hamby scores 56 in double-overtime loss

FOOTBALL: BLOUNT HIRES FORMER PRO
Blount (Eight Mile, Ala.) has hired former NFL lineman Chris Samuels as its offensive coordinator. He will be working under Kevin Sigler, a long-time high school and college teammate.

* Columbia (Lake City, Fla.) coach Craig Howard has been chosen from a field of over 100 candidates to be the new head coach at Southern Oregon University. He has had previous college coaching experience and as head coach at Nease (Ponte Vedra, Fla.) he developed eventual Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow.

* Carlos Enrico has retired as head coach at Central Catholic (San Antonio) after winning 159 games in 24 years. He was the longest-tenured head football coach in the San Antonio area and will retain his duties as athletic director.

SWIMMING: FRANKLIN SETS NATIONAL RECORD
Sensational sophomore Missy Franklin of Regis Jesuit (Aurora, Colo.) won the 100-yard backstroke in 52.3 seconds during the Class 5A state meet in Fort Collins, Colo. It surpassed the 13-year-old national record for independent schools, which was 52.86 by olympian Natalie Coughlin. The overall national record is 51.53.

* At Indiana's state meet, Carmel (Ind.) extended its national record by winning its 25th consecutive title with ease and its 200-yard medley relay team set a national public school record with a clocking of 1 minute, 41.42 seconds.

* During Tennessee's state meet, the Baylor (Chattanooga, Tenn.) won the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1 minute, 32.63 seconds to set an overall national record.

POTPOURRI
* Belmont Hill (Belmont, Mass.) boys hockey coach Ken Martin posted his milestone 700th career victory, 7-1, over Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.) His total is No. 2 in history, trailing only the 852 victories achieved by Bill Belisle of Mt. St. Charles Academy (Woonsocket, R.I.).

* Justine Siegal will achieve a historic first when she pitches batting practice for the Cleveland Indians on Feb. 21 and the Oakland Athletics on Feb. 23. She continues to champion girls playing high school baseball as founder and executive director of Baseball For All.