Article: Lincoln County will open inaugural boys basketball season vs. Hurricane First coach Bill Elkins knows there could be a ling adjustment period

Hamlin boys basketball Coach Bill Elkins is busy multi-tasking.

While the 22nd-year coach with the Bobcats prepares his current team for the stretch run, Elkins is also assembling his first schedule as coach at Lincoln County High School beginning later this year.

Lincoln County High - the consolidation of Harts, Duval, Guyan Valley and Hamlin - is set to open in August.

As the newest member of the Mountain State Athletic Conference West Division, Lincoln County will have to begin preparing for basketball sooner than that.

"We work in the offseason (at Hamlin)," Elkins said. "But, our lower levels haven't been overly competitive. We'll have to do something to change that.

"It'll be a ...

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