Westfield went a little distance to find its new head football coach.

            To Texas. But he’s got a lot of Georgia to him.

            The school announced Monday afternoon the hiring of Bruce Lane as its new football boss. He succeeds Jamey Watson, who went 7-25 in three seasons after succeeding longtime coach Ronnie Jones.

            Lane is a John Milledge and Georgia College graduate, who has been a head coach in three states, including three in Central Georgia.

            He went 24-32-1 at Monroe Academy, 3-7 at GMC, and 42-18 at John Milledge, where he coached current head coach J.T. Wall.

            Lane’s Southland teams went 7-14 in two seasons, and Augusta Christian went 17-6 in two seasons in the GISA before the school moved to the South Carolina Independent School Association.

            Overall, he went 63-22 with Augusta Christian, winning a state title in South Carolina in 2005, finishing as state runner-up the next two seasons.

            From 2009 until now, he has been a head coach at Fort Bend Christian Academy in Sugar Land, Texas, Wilson Hall in Sumter, S.C., and he leaves Rosehill Christian in Tomball, Texas for the new job in Perry.

            Wilson Hall won the SCISA state title in 2013. Rosehill Christian was a finalist among private schools for the Touchdown Club of Houston sportsmanship award in 2018, the Eagles going 9-2. Lane went 29-24 at Rosehill.