Derrick Harwood has resigned after one season as Warren Central’s baseball coach to return to the college ranks.

Harwood has been hired as an assistant coach at Clarendon College, a junior college in Clarendon, Texas. Harwood, a former standout player at Allen County-Scottsville, was previously an assistant at Calhoun Community College in Alabama before taking over the Dragons.

Harwood said he didn’t plan on returning to college baseball, but got an offer after assisting this summer with the Licking County (Ohio) Settlers in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League. Clarendon head coach Devin McIntosh is a former head coach of the Settlers.

“I had full intentions of coming back to Warren Central,” Harwood said. “I had not planned on going anywhere. … It all just happened very fast.”

Harwood went 10-23 with the Dragons, and Central will be looking for its third head coach in as many seasons.

The Dragons won a Region 4 championship in 2010, but have had only one postseason win since. Central has finished fifth in five-team District 14 in each of the last four seasons.

Central played last season without a true home field because of renovations on campus.

“Warren Central I think has a very bright future,” Harwood said. “Warren Central, they’ve had a tradition-rich baseball program up until the last five or six years. I think that with the new facility being built and Chase Goff, who is an awesome (athletic director) who went to Central … they’re going to get it going in the right direction.”

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