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MADERA - After seven years at the helm of Madera South High School's football program, Coach Scott Donegan has announced he is stepping down. He will remain as a physical education teacher and his successor has not been named.

Donegan was the then new school's first football coach in 2006 after a very successful run at Chowchilla Union High School where his team won the CIF Valley Championship in 2004 and placed second in 2005.

MADERA - After three straight losing seasons at Madera High School., varsity football coach Scott McKinney steps down. Citing family reasons for leaving, McKinney has had a rough go of coaching at the high school level. In the last three years the Coyote varsity football team has gone 1-14 in the County/Metro Athletic Conference (CMAC), with their lone league victory coming from Madera South last month (48-30).

This season started out with a near riot at a Memorial Stadium scrimmage with Tulare  Union where McKinney and the high school administration said the public did not have a right to know what happened or watch a video of the mealy. The season ended with a star football player being removed from the team for illegally accessing the schools attendance records and erasing absences for fellow football players and other athletes.

MADERA - While the Dinuba game ended without incident, last weeks scrimmage at Madera High's Memorial Stadium with Tulare Union ended in a riot. One Madera coach was hit by a Tulare Union player and several former Madera players from last seasons team jumped into the bench clearing brawl that by all accounts was started by the Tulare Union players.

The entire fight was captured on video by both teams, but neither have turned over their tapes for review to California Interscholastic Federation. CIF central section commissioner Jim Crichlow said any player that left his bench to enter the fight is subject to a game suspension.

GOBULLDOGS.COM - After 27 years as the Fresno State softball head coach, Margie Wright has announced her retirement effective June 30, 2012. Wright, who is the NCAA Division I all-time winningest softball coach and is ranked second all-time in NCAA Division I history for victories regardless of sport, steps down after guiding the university to its first NCAA Division I team title (1998) and directing the softball program to unparalleled heights.

Under her direction the Bulldogs have appeared in every NCAA Tournament championship, while becoming the second all-time winningest softball program in Division I history.

DeRuyter Becomes the 17th Head Coach to Lead the Fresno State Football Program
GoBulldogs.com - Fresno State Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh has announced the appointment of Tim DeRuyter, Interim Head Coach at Texas A&M, as the 17th head coach of the Bulldog football program.

DeRuyter (pronounced da-ROOT-er) will begin recruiting for Fresno State immediately before the NCAA-mandated "quiet period," which begins Dec. 19. He will begin his full-time coaching with the Bulldogs immediately following the Aggies' game versus Northwestern at the Meineke Car Care Bowl on Dec. 31. He has spent the past two seasons as an assistant head coach/defensive coordinator at Texas A&M.

Fresno State - Anyone, anywhere, anytime, just no longer at Fresno State for Coach Pat Hill. The man who put Bulldog football on the National map was fired Sunday by the school’s administration following a losing 4-9 season, the worse in Fresno State history. Monday Hill met with the media for a 15 minute emotional talk on his fifteen year tenure as Fresno State’s head football coach.

Hill took his seat at the podium in a green shirt and black jacket. The only red was in Hill’s eyes and a couple wounds on his right hand. He told the media he would not answer any questions or give any interviews. He has always answered the media’s questions but for today's press conference, when he was done he was done.