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fourth. The Diamond Tigers completed the 2005 season ranked 19th by Collegiate Amer– ica. Success continued for the 2006 squad. which finished con– ference runners-up and partici– pated in the South Central Regional en route to a 42-22 mark. Avalon's coaching experience also includes stints as head coach of the West Alabama American Senior League team in 2005 and as an assistant of theWest Alaba– ma Junior League squad the same year. He led the Forest Hill Senior League team in 2002. He has also worked several baseball camps in Alabama and Missis– sippi. A standout pitcher, Avalon was a member of the 2004 UWA squad and played the previous season at Lincoln Memorial Uni– versity in Harrogate, Tenn. He was also a two-year standout at Holmes Community College in Goodman, where he was named to All-Region 23 and MACJC

All-State second teams.

A graduate of Forest Hill High School, Avalon received an associate's degree in liberal arts at HCC, where be was a member