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966 AN it young arpen- 5 late^ ormor 1 call- E upon elf in just- been tion’s dal of eously Medal >t the irfare done, e and Revo- house i the ressed al Na- wallis >m his own were lander ' and atriots 7- Ip the t sight (verty- ? help- ‘sent it assist- I'e re- ;her of ?n can > must 1 jobs Is. But ad or to get lat he rill not front ie.ating much Appar- e shall V nursday, June 30, 1966“ _ ' KINGS MOUWAIN HERAtD, KIN6S, MOUNTAIN, N. C. Z' Medlin’s Two Grand Slammers Break Homer Mark Herald Sports By GARY STEWART Medlin Se+s Eight Records Friday luniois Host Gianite Falls Monday Night Kings Mountain’s juniors play host to Granite Falls Monday night in the final regular season home game. The Mounties play at Cherryville Friday night and at Hickory in the regular-season finale Tuesday. Post 155 will pick up a forfeit win over Newton tonI'.4ht bring- , ing its record to 11-8 heading in- HI ii.nior third baseman Roy Medlinjto Friday’s game. Kings Mountain junior tmra he; Steve Goforth (5-2) will start established a rival Bessemer City. j lor Kings Mountain Friday and led the locals to a lo-6 win over broke the ali-timei will probably pitch here Monday The hard hitting third baseman broke the all time^ Adkins (2-1) season and career home run records set m laoj “V caxcne Torrv Morris set a record for most homers in one encounter. mos^ {rrnnd slammers in a game, season and career, most Goforth picked up a win over most gl and slamme eame and set the mark for the long- cherryville earlier in the season runs battetl m foi one gam® a''^ | although he needed two innings est honier Friday’s game tied with Morris for; of relief from Adkins Medlin went into Frid y. came out of the. The Mounties are currently in the all-time lead in homers with other milestones. • sixth place in the Area IV stand- game W'ith five homers Iplns all thos , innine wdtli a 'iiSs dropping all the way from Roy snapped4he record in the second inning with a, after "losing back-to-back 438-foot blast to dead centerfield whl^ g contests to Forest City and Gas- hooks as the lon<ye.st homer in Post loo ^istory. nei ^ tonia. fore the longest round-tripper w^as a 4o0-foot blast by only the top five teams will i7;/>haY-H Potd Inst vpar against Hickory. Idraw a bye into the quarter-fm- Richard Gold y ^ w'ent past the als of the area playoffs, so, if Medlin s second on the far side KM finishes sixth it will have to scoreboard m the air and lan^d m center play the iith place team, praba- of the road which goes all the way fiom ’i bly BesseTcr City, in a one-game behind the board. . . playoff here Thursday. The big 210-pounder came back in the titth J^ning. g^ouid KM finish fifth and with a 400-foot blast which rolled under the scoreboara.; g^gy fourth, the two Bessemer centerfielder Chuck Steele was injured chasing i tegn^g will square off in a iwst- ‘^°"‘s.°iele,had to be he.ped^_from^tte^a«um_lonov«^^^ ISlS will begin here Medlines Two Round-Trippers Lead Post 155 To 15-6 Win Over Bessemer u V ' t . •** 4 ill 1^1 * iiii f5 ' : BREAKS HOMER RECORD — Pictured above is Kings Mountain Legion star Hoy Medlin who smashed two grand-slam homers here friday night against Bessemer City to set an all-time home tun iMord for o post 15S player. The two round trippers gave Medlin five for the season and he snapped the mark of three set in 1959 by ecrtcher lerry Morris. Medlin set a total of eight records in the lS-6 win over Bessemer. the game but appeared not to be injured ever, he will probably miss some action because of the ^^^^^Medlin had one other hit in Friday’s game, a double to left-center. Bessemer City teftfielder ^im Adkms^a^ parently mis-judged the shot and under-ran it. went over his head and was retrieved by centerfielder SLggIg. That came in the first inning. Moun+ies Holding Down Fourth Spot Through Friday’s action the Area IV standings show Coach Bob Hussey’s juniors in fourth place. Belmont still leads the league with Gastonia second and Forest City Kings Mountain was scheduled to play at Forest City Monday night and was carded to host Gastonia Tuesday "'^^Cherryville, Granite Falls, Shelby, Hickory and Hen rietta are still battling it out for fifth place, Marion is 10th and bringing up the rear is Bessemer City. Besse. mer’s only wdn was a forfeit by Newton, which dropped out of the league after the first week of the season. League-leader Belmont has dropped only two games, the first to Kings Mountain and a later contest to, f'orest City. Should Kings Mountain finish the regular season in fourth place it will meet the fifth place club in a best-of- three series during the first elimination roun(3. First round play ends on July 5 and pairings for the first elimination week read: No. 9 at 8 No. 10 at 7 No. 11 at 6 Since Newton dropped out of the league the top five teams will draw byes during the first round of elimina tion. The winners of the first round will clash with the top five teams in the quarter-finals in a best-of-three series running from July 8 through July 12 with the fol lowing pairings; No. 1 vs. 8 or 9 No. 4 vs. 5 No. 2 vs. 7 or 10 No. 3 vs. 6 or 11 j The team with the highest percentage at the end of first round play gets the first home game in each series. -^he area semi-finals, also a best-of-three series, are scheduled for July 13-16 with the area finals, a best-of- five, carded for July 18-23. Area IV must name its champion by July 23 and the state semi-finals, with the Area HI champ facing the Area IV winner, is scheduled to start July 24. Goforth, Adkins Lead Pitching Dept. Through Friday night's action, pitching statistics showed Steve Goforth and Mickey Adkins as the only KM pitchers with winning records. Goforth is the team’s winningest pitcher with a 4-1 record and leads the team in innings pitched with 50, strikeouts with 55 and has the lowest earned run average, 1.26. *■< Shortstop Nelson Connor will go into Friday’s game as KM’a leading hitter. Nelson is current ly hitting'^W a .384 clip with 23 hits in 60 tWies at bat. He is tied with Roy Medlin for the lead in runs scored with 14. Ronnie Rhea is second on the hitting list with a .290 average and tied for third are Medlin and Paul Gaffney with identical .238 marks. Both boys have collected 1.5 hits in 63 times at bat. Medlin is leading the K.M slug Optimist leading Little League Race; Clinches Tie For Title By GARY STEWART Roy Medlin became the all-time Otis D. Green Post 155 American Legion home run king Friday night after hitting two grand slammers to lead the locals to a 15-6 win over Bessemer City. Medlin went into the game tied in all-time homers with Jerry Morris, an all-state catcher in '59 when he smacked three round-trippers. The big 210-pound third baseman snapped that mark in the second inning with a 438-foot blast to dead centerfield. He camo back in the fifth inning and drove a 400-iooter to the scoreboard in centerfield for his fifth round-tripper of the sea son. Medlin established a total of eight recofds during the con test. His second inning blast was the first grand slammer hit 1 by a KM player since the 1964 season when outfielder George j Pittman hit one at Cherryville. His second inning homer was al- I so the longest in Post 155 history. 1 Kings Mountain piled its 15 I run.s into two innings. The Moun- i ties rallied for five in the second ! inning and came back for 10 in the tiftli. Bessemer scored one in the third, one in the eighth and I four in the ninth. i ! Bessemer City outhit the locals,' 10-9. but KM took advantage of Medlin’s two homers and a dou ble and seven Bessemer City er rors, plus long doubles by Paul Gaffney and Tommy Goforth. j | Kings Mountain’s first run of the ballgame was unearned with' pitcher Mickey Adkins crossing the plate after reaching base on an error, going to third on a hit-and-run single by Gaffney and coming on in wlion Goforth doubled to left-center. Optimist clinched at least a tie for championship honors in the local little League this past week by winnlnig decisions over Bur-Mill and Jaycees to push its undefeated record to 11-0. The only team with a chance to tie Optimist is Police which sports a 7-3 record. Bur-Mill Is in third place in the loop standings POLICE-JAYCEES This week's action got under way Thursday with Police tak- ging department with four dou- fourth place Lions (5-5), bles, a triple, five home runs and gpo^ts the only other winning 21 runs batted in. record. Goforth leads the pitching de partment with a 5-2 record, 57% innings pitched, 66 strikeouts and a 2.17, earned run average. Ad kins has the ohlv other winning.. . , . . _ record. Be has fanned 42 batters j decision over and has a 2.43 earned run mark. Broi^ and I Stowe teamed to hurl the victory for Police, limiting the losers to only one hit, a third inning sin gle by Mike Bennett. Police tallied its winning inns in the top of the first witli lliree nins on three hits Tlio big blow of the inning was a triple by Brown which drove in two runs. Police 310 030--7 Jaycees 100 0(X)—1 WP—Brown. LP--Smith. Lead ing Hitters: Police — Whetstine, 2-for-3; Jaycees — Bennett, l-for- 2. RESCUE-KIWANIS , Rescue Squad outiasled Kiwan- is 11-10 in Thursday’s nightcap with Bobby Johnson hurling the win and Bobby Byars getting tagged with the loss. Rescue collected a total of 11 hits while Johnson held the los- I ers to only six. Mike McDaniel j was 4-for-4 for the winners. Rescue 051 113—11 Kiwanis 042 022—10 WP — Johnson. LP - - Byars. Leading Hitters: Rescue — Mc Daniel. 4-for-4; Kiwanis—Frank lin, 2-for-4. LIONS-PARKGRACE ' Shoitslop Nelson Connor then ' drew a ba.se on balls to load the 1 bases and set the s:age for Med- for-4. I lin’s record-breaking blast. After BUR-MILL-OPTIMIST | Medlin’s homer, Ronnie Rhea Bur-Mill tangled fii-st place j flicd out and Phil Cash .struck Optimist right down to the wire, i out to end the inning, auid then some, in Friday’s night- j xjap. The first place team won ' IRx-Rnn Ei^h Gives Forest City 9-4 Wm Forest City scored six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning Monday night to hand Kings Mountain’s Legion juniors a 9-4 defeat. Steve Goforth suffered the loss for KM, his second of the season. Both Steve’s losses this year have been to the Forest City crew. Goforth worked a total of 7% Innings, gave up 11 hits, walked seven and struck out 11. Mickey Adkins pitched the final out for Kings Mountain. Adkins came in relief of Goforth i with two out in the bottom of the eighth after third baseman Lewis Jolley unloaded for a two- run homer. Adkins faced only one batter and fanne<l h*™- Bobby Hill who relieved start er Brinson Hill in the seventh, •gained the pitching win Forest City gained a 10 lead in the first inning with Wayne Hoots singling, taking second on a wild pitch, staying there while Jones walked, going to third when Goforth hit Warren Del- ton with a pitch, and scoring when Jolley drew a base on balls. the game, 11-8, by scoring five inns in the top of the seventh. ; The two teams tied. 6-6, after | the regulation six innings and Optimist came on strong in the 1 top of the seventh for five runs i to go ahead, 11-6, before Bur-Mill ; could come back fr.r two in the bottom of the seventh. ; Optimist 101 040 5 11 i Bur-Mill 005 010 2- 8' WP Bolin IP—Baker. Lead- in) j Hitters: Optimist - .Riddle, , 2-for-4; Bur-Mill McDaniel, | double. KIWANT.^ - POLICE Kiwanis 00116011x1 only one hit off Police pitcher Richard Stowe* but managed to run past the ; second place team, 3-0, in Mon-' day’s opener. 'Tim Lockridge singleil in the i last inning for the only hit off Stowe. Billy Whetstine and Ken i Smith collected the only hits off Kiwanis pitcher Bobby Byars, both singles. Kiw'anis 102 000 - 3 ^ Police 000 000 0 WP—Byars. LP—Stowe Lead- ; ing Hitters: Kiwanis - - Lock- ; ridge, l-for-3; Police — Whet- ; Stine, l-for-2. RESCUE-PARKGRACE Monday’s nightcap saw Rescue Squad taly four runs in the bot tom of the fourth to erase a 4-1 deficit and pull over a 5-4 win over Parkgrace. Only three hits were recorded during the game with winning pitcher Mike McDaniel getting a triple and Gary Kiser a double for Rescue and Rob':y Moore* registering a single for the ios- ! ers. ! Park grace 031 000—4 Bessemer tallied an unearned run in the third with lead-off batter Sonny Jones scoring after reaching base on an error, going to second when Adkins tlirew wild attempting a pick-off and, taking two bases on a single by Ronnie Bowen. ' Kings Mountain put the game! out of reach in the fifth by send-1 ing 14 batters to the plate and 10 runs oil onl.v three soonn: hits. I Cash was hit by a pitched ball to get lliing.s rolling, Ton.v Leigh wa.s walked, and, afl(*r Chucky Gladden fanned for the first out, Adkins reached base on a field er’s choice to load the* bases. Cash scored when Gaffne.v drew a base on balls and Lei.gh; and Adkins came in on a single I by Goforth. Connor once again' drew a ba.se on balls to load the bases and Medlin uncorked an .0-2 pitch for his fifth homer of^ ! the year and second grand-slam-1 mi*r of the night. I Kings Mountain scored three I more runs in that inning with : tlie help of three Bessemer er- ; roi's, three stolen bases and a ! single by Gladden. STANDOUT — Pictured above is Post 155 shortstop Nelson Connor whose .384 batting ov erage will lead the locals into a game at Cherryville Friday night. Thus far. Connor has collected 23 hits in 60 times at bat, has scored 14 runs, has eight runs driven in, three doubles, a triple cmd three stolen bases. luniors Fall Fo Gastonia Tuesday Night Kings Mountain’s junipTs dip- led into sixth place in the Area V Legion standings Tuesday light after losing 8-1 to second .olace Gastonia. The loss brought KM’s record 0 10-8 heading into the final .veek of the regular season. Gastonia tallied its winning run in the second inning with shortstop Danny Denton scoring on a sacrifice fly by James Tur pin after he singled and stole nis way to third base. The eventual winners scored two more runs in the fourth on Ehree KM errors, two stolen ... :ases and a wild pitch and added two more in the sixth before the locals scored their only run in the bottom of that inning. Gastonia’s sixth inning runs were scored on singles by Bill y Broome and Turpin, a base on' balls, another KM error and a wild pitch. Back-to-back singles by Nelson Connor and Tony Leigh and a base on balls to Roy' Medlin lo-ad- ed the bases for KM in the bot tom of the sixth but Gastonia pitcher Bill Love got Connor on a fielder’s choice by Rhea and Phil Cash filed out before catch er Paul Gaffney singled in Leigh W'ith KM'S only run Gastonia came right back in the seventh to add tw'o more runs as a result of singles by' Jerry Barker and Harry Bryant and a dou lo by Willie Gillespie. The visitors added a singleton in the ninth on singles by Barber and Gillespie. Micke.v Adkins went the dis tance for the Mounties and Was tagged W'ith his first loss of the reason. Akins gave up nine hits, walked only two and fanned eight. Love also went the distance for the winners and gaVe up sev en hits, walked one and struck out five. BOXSCORE Legion, 14-0 f'or-4 performance Kings Mountain tied the score j pai*kgrace catcher Chris Blan- in the top of the fourth with ton got the big blow of the game, Phillip Cash’s Jong double Rriv- ^ two-run homer in the first in- Rescue 100 40x 'L,ions scored five runs in the 1 ^VP McDaniel. LP Poole. first inning Friday' night ^nd i Loading Hitters: Rescue Mc- held on for a 5-4 victory over | triple; Parkgrace — Parkgrace. David Myers hurled , ^joore, l-for-3. the wn for Lions and also fig- ; LIONS-BUR-MILL ured in on the hitting with a 2' Kings Mountain’s juniors fell victim of a two-hitter by left hander Warren Garrett of Bel mont Thursday' night and lost their sixth Legion contest in 15 outings by a scoi'o of 14-0. Belmont collected 16 hits off KM pitchers Tommy Goforth and Ronnie Rhea. Included in those hits were two triples, one double and one home run. I Adkins went the di.stance for| Garrett gave un a single to j the locals ancf gained his second; Rhea in the second inning and 'win of the year against no one to Phil Cash in the third. ! losses. Adkins scattered 10 hits,'7'hose were the only tw'o inning.*" I .struck out 12 and walked only that K^l manage a threat I three. , - Back-to-back doubles by Ron nie Bowen and losing pitcher Bo Davis produced a run for Besse-' mer in the eighth and two KM errors, a fielder’s choice and^ singles by Bowen, Davis and Norris Thornburg accounted for; four in the final frame. BOX SCORE AdkiriB haFa 2-0 record with 33 strikeouts and a l.SOi ing in^Nrtson Connor frwn-sec-4ning. Blanton added a single in earned run average. Adkins has worked a total of 27% innings, has given up only 19 hits and has walked only 10. Tommy Goforth has worked 39 innings,’ has fanned 38 batters but has a 1-3 record. He has given up the most hits, 45, has Walked only 14 batters and has a 2.77 earned run average. David Norris, who is no longer with the team, has a 1-2 record and Ronnie Rhea, who has worked only in re lief, is 0-0. Steve Goforth was scheduled to pitch against Forest City Monday with either Adkins or Tommy Goforth get ting the nod against Gastonia Tuesday. rifty tdke But Jlltonta Sunday Fifty local baseball tans went [ White, Wayne Cunningham, Jim to Atlanta, Ga., Sanday on a! L<»jion-sponsored bus trip for j the’ game between the Atlanta j Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Los Angeles won the game, 2- t on a ninth Inning error by At lanta shortstop Denis Menke. Southpaw Sandy Koufax gained the pitching win, his 14th of the season. 'The following people took the trip: I 'Thurman Hull, Lawrence Sty- prs Jim Ho«e«l*y, Aba Martin, prank Hough, Don Sellers, George Sellers, Lee Roberts, Tom •Tata R. E. Bennett, Horace Cun- nwriwm. K. E. Monlaon, Hugh rate# Lwwtd Deri, Dan Queen; jli’ke Huff»tickl\r, Reggie Archie. Joe Cunningham. Bph Rhea, Ronnie Rhea, Jim Rikard. Dean Payne, Clifford Pearson. Max Pearson, Jack Bennett. Lee Roy Hammett. Gene Wright Lonnie Goforth; Fred Jones, Larry PearsOTi, Harold Phillips, Willie Grice, Ray Cline. Don Falls, Pat Tig- nor, Jerry Ledford, Charles Ford, Otis Smith, Don McAbee, John ny Robbs, J. D. Hammett, Lewis Dellinger, Elpiore Alexander, Paul Patterson, ORie Harris, Plato Heiffner and W. W. Huff, stetler. The iLegion plans to make the trip again on July 31 when tfie E ves play the San Fmoisos ■Ih ■ ond base. Connor had led off the inning with a single and had taken second when Ronnie Rhea reached base on a fielder’s ohoice. The locals took a 3-1 lead m thb top of the fifth but the home team came back in the bottom half to tie it up a?ain. Chuoky Gladden led off the KM hith with a single, was sac rificed to second oh a bunt ty Goforth and scored on a single by Connor. Tony Leigh drew a base on balls and Roy Medlin advanced Connor when he flied deep to centerfield. Connor then scored when Rhea singled but Cash fiicd out to end the inning. A lead-off triple by Hoots and back-to-back doubles by Jones and Dalton produced two runs for FC in the bottom of the fifth. Then came the six-run eighth with doubles by Jones and Dal ton, singles by Johnny Davis and Hoots and Jolley’s homer turn ing the trick. KM managed a singleton In the ninth with Adkins reaching jnee on an error and scoring two outs later on a single by Medlin. BOXSCORE Kings Mountain AB R H The Lions tallied five runs in the fourth inning to come from behind and beat Bur-Mill, 6-3, in Tuesday’s opener. The winners’ _fourth inning the'fourth for a 2-for-4 plate per- i were'a result of -singles by fnrmance Hunter and Craig Bowen Lions ’ .500 000—5 ; doubles by David Myers and 201 001—4 i -’^ark Eakcr. OaMiMr, M Leigih, M Parkgrace WP—Myers. LP — ing Hitters: Lions for-2: Parkgrace - Medlin, 3b Rhea, cf Cash, 2b Gaffney, c T. Goforth, rf Gladden, lb S. Goforth, p Adkins, p Forest City Blanton. If Hoots, cf Jones, c Dalton, IS Jolley, 3b Vassey, lb Handley, lb D avis, rf Blankenship, 2b Br. Hill, p Bob HIH, p Black. Lead- —Rodgers, 2- - Blanton, 2- Lions 000 501—6 B-.Mill 300 000 -3 WP Brown. LP — McDan- - I iel. leading Ritters: Lions — 11 Brown, 2 - for . 2; Bur-Mill — 1 Bridges, l-for-3: Ramsey, l-for- 3. OPTIMIST-JAYCEES First place Optimist bombed the Jaycees 13-7 in Tuesday’s nightcap. EM Robbs and Dana Sarv'is paced the winners at bat. Robbs with a 2-for-3 porfbrm- 32 4 8 I ance and Sarvis with a 2-for-4 i showing and three runs scored. 4 0 0 j Danny Hartsoe was the win- 4 8 31 nlng pitcher and Tony Ruppe 4 2 2 I was tagged with the loss. 4 1 3 I Optimkt 054 22x—13 3 11 Jaycees 203 20j(J^ 7 3 0 0 j WP — Harteoe. LP — Ruppe. 2 0 0 1 T.#adlinr Hitters; Optimist — 3 1 11 Rob*^ 2-for-3; Jaycees, Bradford 1-fo. >. STANDINGS , Kings Mountain ! Goforth, rf, lb ! Laughter, lb I Connor, s.s I'Medlin, 3b i Rhea, cf, If Cash,- 2b ! Leigh. If I .lones, cf j Gladden, lb Bridges, rf, If I Burton, rf Adkins, p Gaffney, c 38 15 9 14 34 V9 11 E—Medlin 2. Dalton. LOB—FC 9, KM 7. DP—FC 2. HPB- Dal- ton, by Goforth. 2B—Dalton 2, JoiMs 2. Gash. 3B—Hoo1||, :HR 2 Jsfiay. WP K Bobby HUil. LP Gotforth. t Team Optiimlst Police Bur-Mill Lions Rescue Squad Kiwanis Pailigrace Jaycees 'L Pet 0 l.fKX) 3 .700 4 .555 5 .500 5 .444 7 .300 7 .300 8 .111 In the second, Rhea singled j sharply to leftfield and took 1 second two outs later when Bill gj Bridges was hit by a pitched ' ball. Goforth reached base on an 4 error hut Nelson Connor struck ^,out to end the inning. In the third. Tony Leigh flied ^ out to get things rolling, Roy ^1 Medlin drew a base on balls and “%Cash sinped"ToT^nterfield Rhea ^ flied out and Paul Gaffney ^ reached base on an error by the 3, Belmont second baseman hut Medlin was thrown out at home trying to score on the play. Garreft retired the sides in or der during tl;ie fourth. Seventh eighth and ninth innings. KM had one base runner in the first one in the fifth and two in the 0; sixth. O' Belmont scored two runs ir 21 the first, two in the third, three 1' in the fourth, three in the fifth 0, two in the sixth and two in the 0 eighth. 2 0 Rhea with two imen on in -the ” sixth. The winners got 15 o' ~i their 16 hits off Goforth, whr ^1 was charged with his third loss ! of the season. 2-i John Rudisill led the Belmont Connor, Gladden, Adkins. LOB— fitting with four sihgles in five BC 10, KM 8. DP — Connor, Cash j gt bats, Phil White and Ed & Gladden. SB — Connor, Rhea, Thompson added three hits each Cash, Leigh. HBP — Gaffney, by| ,nnd Larry Hartsell and Steve Davis; Cash by Davis; G. Robin- Barkley had two hits apiece. Kings Mountain Connor, s.s Leigh. If Medlin, 3b. c Rhea, cf, lb Cash, 2b Gaffney, c Bridges, cf Goforth, rf Gladden, 3b, lb Adkins p H BI 2 0 34 1 7 1 BMMmer City Jones, ss 5 12 Jennings, c 5 10 R. Bowen, 2b 5 2 3 Davis, p, lb 4 2 3 Steele, cf 10 0 G. Robinson, cf 2 0 0 Thornburg, lb, p 4 0 2 F. Robinson, 3b 4 0.0 Atkins, If, cf 4 0 0 S. Bowen, rf 4 10 38 6 10 E—F. Robinson 3, Jones 2, Bowen, Thornburg, Medlin Goforth worked the first five son, by Adkins. 2B — Goforth,, Gaffney, Medlin, Davis, R. Bow en. HR — Medlin 2. Pitching: IP R R ER BB SO Adkins (w) 9 10 6 3 3 12 Davis (1) 4% 7 15 9 6 4 'fhomburg 9 6 0 13 Hartsell smacked an inside the-park three-run homer in the fifth inning. Phil White cracked ' an inside-the-park homer in the eighth but the blast wqs lower ed to a single when Clarence f30k>torth Buchanan, who wai dh first Gastonia Lanham. If .. 5 0 0 0 Barker, rf 5 2 2 0 .■“iillespie, cf 5 13 0 Wofford, c 5 0 0 0 Denton, ss 5 111 Bryant, 2b 3 2 12 Broome, 3b 4 2 10 Turpin, lb 3 0 12 Love, p 3 0 0 0 38 8 9 5 E — Cash 2, Goforth, Adkins, Rhea. LOB — G 7 KM 7. SB — Connor, Rhea, Leigh. Barker, Gillespie, Denton 2. Bryant 2, Broo.aie 2. 2B -..Gille.spiie. 3B— Gillespie. WP-Adkins 2. Pitching: IP H R ER BB SO Adkins (1) 9 9 8 4 2 8 Love (w) 9 7 1115 b^, failed to tag second base and was called out BOXSCORE Kings Mountain Connor, ss ■ teigh. If Medlin, 3b Cash, 2b Rhea, cf, p Gaffney, p Gladden, lb Laughter, ph Bridges, rf, cf Jones, cf Goforth, p, rf Adkins, rf Belmont White, lb, if Rudisill. ss Hartsell, c Barkley. 3b , Garrett, p Thompson, cf Hope, If Elmore. 2b Holcomb. If Buchanan, lb 38 14 16 E-Medlin 3. Cash. White. Ofr- rett, Elmore. 'LO®, — ® 7. 2B-Hope, 3B — 'Wliil*, Th^Mtp. son. HR - HartselL - .Hartsell. Holorb. ^ Bridges, by (Tarrett; Holf^ub^ by Goforth. WP— Pitching: IP H R i Garrett (w) 9 2 (1) 5 15 3 t AB R H 4 0 0 3 a -D- 3 0 0 4 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 0 3 D 0 1 0 0 2 6 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 2 5 3 3 5 3 4 4 1 2 5 2 2 4 6 1 4 2 3 4 1 1 5 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 %
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