Dixon told his players during voluntary workouts Tuesday that he will not be back for his fifth season as head coach.

Eric Pulling, who was scheduled to be the Wildcats' defensive coordinator this season, is the interim head coach.

Dixon said his resignation was a personal decision.

"I expect the program to do well," he said. "We have great kids."

Dixon was 11-23 overall as the Wildcats' coach. But West Johnston went 7-5 in 2007, finished second in the Greater Neuse 4-A Conference and made its first playoff appearance.

U.S. TEAM WINNING: The four Atlantic Coast Conference basketball recruits on the U.S. U18 boys basketball team have played well in the team's first three games at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Argentina.

The U.S. team has beaten Venezuela, 82-73; Bahamas, 115-51; and Puerto Rico, 106-64, in the tournament in Formosa, Argentina. The U.S. team defeated Canada 82-66 on Thursday and advanced to the gold-medal game against Argentina, which beat Puerto Rico 83-68.

The ACC group is led by North Carolina recruit Travis Wear, who entered Thursday averaging 14.3 points and 6.7 rebounds. Twin brother David Wear is producing 4.3 points and three rebounds. They will be seniors this year at Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei.

Leslie McDonald, a UNC recruit from Memphis, Tenn., is averaging 6.3 points.

Duke recruit Mason Plumlee of Asheville Christ School is averaging 8.3 points and 9.3 rebounds.

Ravenscroft School's Ryan Kelly, a 6-foot-10 senior, started the first three games for the U.S. team has played well. On Thursday, he had 12 points and 10 rebounds against Canada.

Kelly is one of the top recruits in the country. He has narrowed his choices to Wake Forest, Virginia, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Stanford, N.C. State, North Carolina and Davidson.

NUNLEY TAKES SILVER: Booker Nunley of Garner, a South Carolina track recruit, took a silver medal in the IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Nunley ran a time of 13.45, which is .05 seconds off his career best, in finishing second in the 110-meter high hurdles.

Nunley got off to a slow start but moved from fifth to second in the final part of the race.

Konstantin Shabanov of Russia won the gold medal in 13.27.

"It's still my start that's not there," Nunley told reporters after the race. "In the first part of the race, I felt like I was about to go into another lane. After that, I still thought I could catch everybody. That's what I was doing, but I've got to give the Russian guy his props. He's good.

"During the whole race, I kept thinking I could catch up to everybody, but obviously I couldn't. I really have to work on my start."

PIGSKIN KICK OFF: Wake Forest-Rolesville will host an eight-team football scrimmage on Aug. 15.

The first session begins at 6 p.m. and features Bunn, East Wake, Louisburg and Millbrook.

The second session has Clayton, Wake Forest-Rolesville, Leesville Road and Garner.