Newport head coach Larry McElreavy talks with player Josh Murphy at halftime of the game against Mascoma in Newport, N.H., on Sept. 13, 2014. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Newport head coach Larry McElreavy talks with player Josh Murphy at halftime of the game against Mascoma in Newport, N.H., on Sept. 13, 2014. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Credit: Valley News file photograph

Former Newport High football coach Larry McElreavy will work as a senior offensive analyst at Coastal Carolina University this fall.

The Chanticleers compete in the Sun Belt Conference and the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, a level above the Football Championship Division. That lower designation includes the Ivy League, where McElreavy coached Columbia from 1986-88.

McElreavy guided Newport High during the 2014 and 2015 seasons and twice led the Tigers to the NHIAA Division III title game. His second campaign with the program brought an 11-0 record and a state title. He resigned in April 2016, with a 20-2 record at Newport, which outscored opponents, 853-217, under his direction.

The coach’s next stop was at Pembroke Academy for the past two seasons. The job allowed him to be closer to his job as a Realtor, but the Spartans took a pounding on the field, finishing 0-9 last fall.

McElreavy, 71, was born in Claremont. Since leaving Columbia, he has owned and run a diner, sold real estate and cars and worked as a handyman for the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction. He wrote in an email last week that he had been trying to return to college coaching for 15 years.

McElreavy knew Coastal Carolina coach Joe Moglia from the latter’s time at Dartmouth College during the early 1980s. McElreavy said he read one of the many articles written about Moglia, a former high-level businessman, in recent years and has stayed in contact with him during the past four years. Moglia is 51-15 with the Chanticleers and earlier this season returned from a five-month medical leave of absence.

Coastal Carolina was 3-9 last season, its second during a transition to the higher-level FBS. The university is located in Conway, S.C.

— Tris Wykes

Men’s Basketball

Wright Signs Pro Deal

Hanover — Miles Wright, a recent Dartmouth College graduate and four-year basketball player, has signed a professional contract with Valur Reykjavik in Iceland. The news was announced by his representative, former Dartmouth player Kirk Crecco, on social media on Sunday night.

Wright, a 6-foot-5 swingman from Boston, led the Big Green (7-20) with an average of 12.3 points last winter. He started 106 of the 111 games in which he played as a collegian and started all 56 Ivy League contests during that time.

Valur, founded in 1951, plays in Iceland’s top division. Among its notable players is American Ivar DeCarsta Webster, who was a roommate of future Boston Celtics star Larry Bird at Indiana State during the 1970s.

Men’s Rowing

Roock Returns to Green

Hanover — Dan Roock has returned to the Dartmouth College men’s lightweight rowing team, having previously coached Big Green crew from 2009-12.

Roock’s previous tenure included trips to the IRA National Championship in each of his four seasons. He left to be the lead sculling coach at the Craftsbury (Vt.) Green Racing Project, leading rowers to several world championship and World Cup appearances. The CGRP men’s fours earned a bronze medal at World Cup III in Switzerland in 2014.

Past jobs included 12 years coaching the Cornell heavies after a six-year stint guiding the Princeton women. Roock is a 1981 Princeton graduate and two-time EAWRC coach of the year.

Legion Baseball

Post 22-Sweeney Ppd.

Lebanon — Tuesday’s rainy day led to a postponement of Lebanon Post 22’s senior American Legion baseball game with Manchester’s Sweeney Post.

The two squads will make the contest up tonight at 5:15 p.m. at Lebanon High School. A win would essentially guarantee Post 22 (6-5) a spot in next week’s state tournament at Manchester’s Gill Stadium.