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C Page 3 I L*'- ^ HERALD SPORTS By GAHY STEWART Richaid White * A rffeteki-.;'- Wolves Rout Mountaineers 43-18, Earn Playoff Spot With Belmont WHERE ARE THEY NOW DEPARTMENT: Richaid White, standout athlete at Kings Mountain High School in the fifties, recently completed his second straight un beaten football season at Taylorsville Junior High School. White’s success as a junior high mentor has paid big divi dends to Alexander Central’s varsity football program. The Cougars have won their division championship in the Northwestern Conference the past three years and are going against Newton^Conover Friday night in hopes of claiming their third straight conference title. . . • Rumors are going around again that the Western N. . High Schools Activities Association, of which KMHS and the Southwestern Conference are members, wilt be forced to join the North Carolina High School Athletic Association. If this happens, the WNCHSAA schools will be recla.ssified and all schools with an enrolment of over 1,000 students in the top three grades will be 4-A. Many of the larger 3-A schools, who apparently want to be a big dog in a little lot, are against joining the state group. They ■say there would be too much travel involved but the real reason is that they’re afraid of getting their tails beat. . . The Southwestern Conference may be split up again for baseball next spring. Coaches are trying to decide how to name the conference champion should the schools break into two divisions. The SWC tried the division setup in 1968 and it didn’t work. The conference should be left as is until re-grouping comes about, if it ever does. . . Barry Gibson, successful young baseball mentor at KMHS, .says his Mountaineers will be in good shape next spring if he can come up with one more good pitcher. Gib son has all but two players returning from last year’s club which finished 12-7-1 and second in the SWC. . . WNCHSAA Playoiis Don't look for a repeat performance Friday night in Lincolnton when the Wolves host South Point in the opening round of the WNCHSAA playoffs. The Raiders smashed the Wolfpack 42-0 in their regular season meet ing but the much-improved Wolves won't let that happen again. In fact, don’t be surprised if the Wolfpack pulls an Upset. . . Former Kings Mountain High grid mentor Shu Carl ton has tacked on another conference championship to his long list which began here in 1955. Carlton’s Ashbrook (Gastonia) Green Wave won their second straight South- • western 4-A Conference Division Seven title last Friday vith a 7-0 blanking of Norlih Mecklenburg's Rebels. The Greenies host Division Eight champion Hickory Friday in the opening round of the state playoffs. Ashbrook has al ready beaten the Red Tornadoes once this but the Greenies aren’t about to look past Frank Barger’s club. Last .^’ear, Ashbrook routed Olympic 43-(J during the regular .season, then lost to the Charlotte school 21-18 in the first round of the playoffs. . . Here’s the schedule for Friday night's WNCHSAA con ference playoffs; Southwestern Conference: Belmont South Point (10-0) at Lincolnton (7-3). Northwestern Conference: Alexander Central (7-2-1) at Newton-Conover (9-1). North Piedmont Conference: East Rowan (5-2-1) at North Davidson (6-1-1). South Piedmont Conference: Salisbury Boyden (6-2) at Kannapolis (6-2). . . Next Friday night, the Lincolnton-South Point win ner plays the Alexander Central - Newton-Conover winner on the NWC team’s home field. . . Fred Dalrymple, Lincolnton High’s outstanding junior running back, .went over the 1,000 yard mark in ru.shing for the year Friday when he gained 124 yards rushing in thee Wolves’ 43-18 romp over the KM Mountaineers. Dal rymple joins a select list of 1,000 yard rushers at Lincoln ton. Others who hit the magic figure have been Jim For tenberry, Steve Brackett, Lester Reinhardt and Bobby Joe Easter. DEFENSIVE STANDOUT — Senior guard Dale Russell, playing his last game as a Mountaineer, was obout XM's only bright spot on defense Friday night in the Mountaineer's 4318 loss to Lincolnton. Russell halted two Lincolnton marches inside the 10. once recovering a fumble and another time tackling Lincolnton quarterback John Lowing on a key fourth down play. Grier Leading Scorer For 1971 Mountaineers Senior fullback John Grier wa.s Kings Mountain High School’.s leading scorer for the 1971 foot ball season. Tile 19.>pounder, playing hi.s first year in the backfield, .scorerl eight touchdown.s for 48 points. .Marshall Logan, a senior half back. finished second for the sec ond .straight ycai. Logan scored ■sinen touchdowns and two e.xira i cint.s f.ir 44 markers .ju.st lour hehind Grier. The Mountaineers in ’71 scored 143 points in 10 games while crmiJiling a 4-4-2 overall record. The Mountaineor.s collected 22 touchdowns, .sewn e.\tra point kicks and a pair of two-point con- version.s. Chris Blanton and Gerald Owensby, two rno.-e seniors, trail ed Grier and Lejgan in the point column. Both scored two touch downs for 12 points. Both of Owensby’.s scores and one of Blan ton’s came on pa.sso,s from quar terback David Bdin. Bolin, la.st year’s loading scor er, scored eight points thi.s year, getting one touchdown and one tw,>poii-:t conversion. The .Mountaineers hit their high game two week.“ ago against Burns, scoring a 27-0 victory. Kings Mountain wa.s in the iwon- lie.s two other times, beating R-S Central 26-7 and Be.'Semer 24-6. Kings Mountain .score:! at least two touchdowns in all but tliroe games. They failed to hit paydirt twice in their 20-0 loss to South Point, an 8-8 tic with Shelby and a -scoreless deadlock with Crest. MOUNTAINEER SCORING Player TD PAT Total Grier 8 0 48 Logan 7 2 44 Blanton 2 0 12 Owens ay 2 0 12 Bolin 12 8 John Bridges 0 7 7- C. Johnson 10 6 Rhodes 10 6 Total 22 11 143 * Doe.s not include field goal kicked in sudden death playc.'f with Shelby. Kiitgs Mountain’s iMountaineers saviKl their worst for last, l-using a lop-sided 43118 game to Lincoln- ton’s Wolves here Friday in their 1971 tootball finale. Tile Wolves, ttynks to East Ru therford's 13-1^ victory over Shel by, now host South Point's unbeat en Red RaUters Friday night in the opening round of the Western N. C. Activities Association play offs. It will be Lincolnten’s first trip to the playoffs since 1967, when the Wolves of Coach Von Ray Harris went to the associa tion finals before losing to Lex ington. In dlaiming their fifth straight victory Friday, .he Wolves ran up 478 total yard.s on dofen.se, f.ir moi-e than any team has regis tered against the usually-sturdy KM defense all year. Halfback Rilly Murphy and Fied Dalry mple led a ru-shing game which netted 384 yards and talented .sen- Lr quarteroack John Lowing hit on seven of 11 pa-si-s for 94 more yard Kings Mountain managed just 133 yards on the ground, one -more yard than Murphy, who scored tliree times, gained by himself. Davvid Bolin hit on three of 12 passes for 120 yards, one of hU tosses going yard.s for a touchdown. I incolnton scored in every quarter in winning it's seventh game. The Wolves fini.shed 7-2 in the conference and a half game above Shelby in the race for se- c.ynd pdact. The Wolves had a 13-0 manjin at halftime, were on tep 20-6 at the t'nd of three periods, then blew the Mountaineers completely out of Jr hn Gamble stadium with 23 points in the final chapter. The Wolves were nside .Moun taineers' 10 on other occasions but failed to score, both times due to alert defense plays by senior guard Dale Russell of the Mount aineer.:. 'Murphy scored from two yards out and Don Rudisill booted the extra point to give thee Wolves a 7-0 first quarter lead. Dalrymple a transfer from Kentucky who gained 124 yards iusliing, went over from six yards out in the second quarter ta make it 13-0 at intermission. Kings Mountain had only one .stotained drive in the first half and that was early in tlie first period. Tlie .Mountaineers drove to the Wolfpack 35 before losing the ball on downs. They picked up ail three of their first half first downs in that drive. Murphy and the Wolves wore back at it again in tlie early mo ments of the second half. Murphy went o\'er from nine yards cut -jurod aqj poifctai utsipnH pun after for a 20-0 lead. As it turned out. that touchdown was the win ning score. in several years. Lincolnton scored two more quickies for a 43-12 le;id before Grier Scored KM’s final lou.li down of 1971 with 2:31 remaininc. Lincolnton’s scores came on a two-yard run by Dalrmplc and a •aO-yard jaunt by Randy High. High’s came wlien Dalrymple fum bled after a lo-yard gain and the alert High scooiied it up and went all the way. Grier led King.s .Mountain’s rush ing attack, ".lining 62 yards in 13 cariU'-;. L')g;in and Clirl-i Blanton :i(ldfd 35 a:id .32 yairls. livdy. rcspcc- THE STA’ITS’nCS KM Line. First Downs 11 20 Yards Rushing 133 384 Passes 3 12 7 11 Passing Yardage 120 94 Passes lot. By 1 0 Fumbles Lost 3 2 Yards Pcnalired 5 15 Punts 6 33 1 42 CATCHES TD PASS — Senior end Gerald Owensby hauled in a 70-Yard touchdown pass from David Bolin for onee of KM's thre« scores in Friday night's loss to Lincolnton. Owensby had one other touchdown this year, catching a 65-yard toss from Bolin in KM'S 14 6 witj over East Rutherford. lackson. McDevitt Top Rushers, Southwell Top Passer At Cent!:^! Fullback Wendell Jacks o n. halfback Dannie McDevitt and Crest High’s Chargers, in defeating R-S Central 17-7 North Davidson last Friday, earned their first title in football since begin- Mooresviiie ning the sport five years ago. The win, which gave Crest North Rowan a final record of 5-4-1, earned Coach Max Beam’s Chargers North Stanly I Ihe Southwestern Conference’s Division One title. Crest West Rowan was followed in the standings by Central, Chase, Cherry- |ville and Burns. . . ^ Sweezy Wins Title Young David Sweezy of Kings Mountain won the North Carolina Go-Kart Tracking Racing championship over the weekend at Lincolnton. David, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Sweezy of Route 3, is a seventh grade student at North Cleveland Junior High School near Waco. . . Duke football coach Mike McGee is calling his two- way players the Iron Dukes. It was the 1938 Blue Devils who went through the season unbeaten and unscored on to earn that ^ickname. This year’s two-way performers are Ed Newman, Ernie Tackson, Rich Searl and Willie Clayton. . . The ni’c.e Devils’ Rich Searl needs only one more in terception to tie the A(;iC career record which is held by Kannapolis Tom Brown of Maryland. Brown intercepted 17 passes in Sallsbuiy 1960-61-62. Searl now has 16, four as a sophomore, seven Ashoboro as a junioi and five so far th.'s year. . . Concord It’s getting clo.ser and closer to the Thanksgiving Day t-xington Final 1971 I Grid Standings | NORTH PIEDMONT CONFERENCE CONF. ALL DIVISION I W T L W T L Kings Mountain finally got its quarlerbaok Steve Southwell offense cranked up late in the were the .statLtical leaders for third period and goi on the score- Central Junior highs football ! ocard. Logan scored from throe team this fall. yards out with 2:49 .showing, cap- Jackson was the team’s leading i ping a 69-yard drive, A 34-yard ground gainer with 3.S3 yards, pass from Bc-lin to Jerry Valen- M. Devitt was the top scorer with points for an average of only 7.6 points per coriitest. Tentrars biggest wins, point- wise, came in its final two contests when the Patriots blanked Lincolnton 40-0 and whipped Hickory 4-6. The Patiiots scored a 360 victory over Chcrryville in theii Football Games Set Satuiday At Two Parks The .second annual Mountain eer Howl football event will be staged Daturilay at City Stadium and John Gamble Stadium. Ac tion will get under way at 10 a. m. Teams from King.s .Mountain, Ga-'tonia, .Morganton, Salem. Lowell and Gien Alpine are enter- <sl in ttie eviml, which is spon soil! by the Kings .Mountain Op- liini.sl Club and K.\l Recreation department. Two King.s Mountain teams will DC- in action. The mighty miK-s, s’5-i. jun(l team csiached by Joe Cornwell, will carry a 3-3 recoi-i int-i their game against Gien Alpine, 'riuit contest will he played a: A p. m. at Jolin Gamble Stadium. Kings .Mniinta'in's pee wi-e team, a 100-i/ound outfit, ear-ries a 4-41 record .nio it.s ."n l.i p. m. contest with Gle- Alpine. That game will also b- played at .Gamble .Stadium. Jimmy Little john and Charles Hurn.s coach the pee wees. Burns is director of the :ou' na- ment, which was a big su ■ -.ss last year despite being pi aye i .n the rain. The full slate of games follow; 10:90 a. m,. City Stadium, S5- Ib., Gastonia vs. Morganton. 11:15 a. m.. City Stadium, 100- bb.. Gastonia vs. .Morganton. 2:30 p. m.. Gamble Stadi. m. lO'Mh,. Lowell vs. Salem. 4:00 p. m.. Gamble Stadium. .8.7. lb.. KM vs. Glen Alphine, 5:4.5 p. m., Gamble Stadium, 100-lh.. K.M vs. Glen Alpine. Gerald Owensby Player Of Week Senior end Gerald Owensby ;i:is been -clc; ted by thi- Kings .M .un- tain High cia.'liing stafl as play er t; the week for la.st Frichiy’.s 43-lS loss to Linvolntc:!. Owensby . .night a 70 • yard touc hdown pa.s-; from quarterback David B din for one of three KM .-tores. A two-year starter, Owen.sby played offen.sive end and defens ive halfback for the 1971 .Moun- tie.s, who finished their sea.son with a 4-1-2 record. .\.s >:i re.sult of ocing chcsi-n player of the week, C..-'n.shy will reieivc a free gift fre : 'he mc:i's department ol Ftilt,.: : Depiu’t- meni Store. Prec ious i-layers of the week for 1971 were .Marshal! Logan, Steve Ingle, John Grier. Chris Blanton, Dale Rus-ell, David Bolin. Alfred -Ash, .Mark Ge.irge and Jake Bridg- I tine and a 22 yard run by Logan nine touchdowns and Southwell season'.s opener and then blank DIVISION II East Rowan 5 12 5 14 Davie County 4 4 5 5 South Iredell 17 19 North Iredell 0 7 0 10 NORTHWES’TERN CONFERENCE DIVISION I Alexander C. 6 12 7 12 Valdese 4 2 3 5 2 3 Lenoir 4 14 4 15 Morganton 2 7 2 8 Avery County 18 19 DIVISION II Newton-Conover 8 19 1 McDowell 5 13 6 17 Wilkes Central 5 4 6 4 Watauga 4 14 5 14 Hudson SOUTH PIEDMONT CONFERENCE ^ % s'i ■' ' I., 1 ed Gaston Day 18-0 hefoie los ing to Shebby 26-22 and A-shle> 21-20. They snapped back by beat ing Marion ISO before stamping Lincolnton and Hickory in their filial two contests. Central's final offensive statis tics follow: I.XDIVIDVAL RL'SIir.N’G ’ 't*» , TOP SCORER — Senior fullback John Grier above, was Kings Mountain High's top scorer for tlJe 1971 iootboll season. The 195'pounder scored eight touch downs for 48 Doints. were the key plays in th march, hit on 70 per cent of his pass at The start of the fourth quarter tempts for 492 yards and six was wild, to say the least. On the touchdowns. first play of the chapter, Lincoln- Coach Porter Griggs’ Patriots ton’s Marty Reid threw Logan posted a :)-2 record, their only for a two-point safety to start a losses coming on successive Wed- -span of a minute which saw 15 nesdays to Shelby and Gastonia pcints put on the scoreboard, Ahley. Reid’s safety came with 11:57 Jackson rusheil for 3.83 yards showing on the clock. After KM’s in 49 attempts, an average of 7.8 Player Att. Yds. Avg. TD free kitk from the 20 Lawing re- yards per carry. .M.Devitt also Jackson .... 49 3.'''3 7.8 S turned the ball to the K.M 33 on topped the 300 yard mark, gain- McDevitt .55 305 5.5 9 the first from scrimmage, Murphy ing 305 yards in 55 carries for a Thompson . . 14 191 13.8 5 went untouched for the touch- 5.5 average. Southwell . . S 72 9.00 2 d.Twn. RudisUI’s kick made it 29-6. Southwell, who ciuarterbacked Miller 1 15 1.5.0 0 Chris Johnson returned the Lin- I’sst year’s Central club to a per- Ledford .... 5 7 1.1 0 colnton kickoff to the KM 30 and l<x:t 5-9 record, hit on 27 of 9 INDIVIDUAL PASSING on the firstplay from scrimmage, passes and had only one inter- Player Att. Comp, Int. Yds. 'TO Dwensibyon a 70-jtard touchdown cepted. Southwell .. 39 27 1 4092 6 Brtlin hooked up with Gerald Southwell’s favorite target was Bumgardner .4 1 0 23 0 ■pasg play. 'That came with 10:37 Tommy 'Manning, who ha.:led in INDIVIDU.AL RECEIVING showing and closed out the wild- H aerials for 185 yards and three Player Catches Yds. ’IT) e.st minute of football played here 1 mmum .^nghfcfqmyour alley... touchdowns. Jeff Jones made Manning 11 eight receptions for 173 yard.s Jones 9 and two touchdown.s. Jackson 2 The Patriots racked up 19S Miller 2 points in seven games, an aver- Thompson 2 age of 2S.3 points per game. McDevitt 2 Their opponents managed 53 Sportsman Race Set At Hickory HICKORY. .4 99-lap Sports man race has been -set for Sun day, N'ov. 14, at Hickory Speed way. Also included on the pro gram wall b>e a 10-lap consolation for Sportsman, two 10-lap heats and a 30-lap feature for Limited Sportsman, and a lo lap Rookie race. Points awarded will count to- war dsthe 1972 championship, as official 1971 .NASCAR point sea son ended November 7lh for Sportsman. Modified and Hobby divisions. All races run after that date count on next year's tallies. Jack Ingram of Asheville won the Sportsman crown this year at Hickory, repeating his feat of 1968. Ingram is expected to be n hand Sunday to start defense of his title, Ronald Pox of Taylorsville captured the Limited division title, and has indicated he wall (Conti)uwd On Page PivrJ battle between Nebraska and Oklahor’s. the two top- ranked college teams in the nation. My choice (hope, rather) for number one is Alabama. I’d like to see Bear Bryant win qrie more national title before hanging ’em up. . . I Gardner-Webb. Eyeing First Home Win, Hosts Georgetown Saturday BO'ILI.NG .SPRINGS, N. C. — Still seeking tliclr first win at home for the 1971 sca.son, the Gardner- 'Vebb Bulldogs will meet George- J ^bwn eoUege of Geargelown, Ken W. t^Bcky, Saturday afternoon at 2 ' ^clqfk in Spangler Stadium. The Tigers of Georgetown will bring a team which has also had trouble winning this season. The I.enolr Rhyne in Hickory ami 42-14 win over Guilford in Greens- bo.to. However, it should be point ed out that the Bulld.cgs have playe.l some real small college powers on Iheir heme 'icld. Those who have whipped the Bulldogs at home include New berry, Samford, Carson-Newman and Presbyterian. The Bulldogs Thomasville 4 13 5 14 Statesville 2 15 3 16 Albemarle 1 7 2 17 South Rowan 17 2 8 S0UTH\'-7“*’';RN CONFERENCE DIVISION I Crest 5 13 5 14 Chase 3 6 4 6 Cherryville 3 6 3 7 Rutherlordton 3 6 4 6 Bums 0 9 0 10 DIVISION II South Point 9 0 10 0 Lincolnton 7 2 7 3 Shelby 6 12 6 13 Eost Rutherford 4 5 4 6 Kings Mountain 3 2 4 4 2 4 PLAY OFFS: 11 12 71 East Rowan vs. North Davidson at North Dov kUon. SoUsbuiy vs. Kannapolis at Kannapolis. Newton vs. Alex ander Central at Newton. South Point vs. Lincolnton ot Llneoln- John Diiling had the pins fly ing in bowling action this week at Mountain Lancs Bowling Cen- U Diiling, captain of the Diiling Heatin,g team, scored a 38.1 set Thursday night as his team drop ped l.iree ol four games to Bc'a Hirnd'. n’s crew in a mixed league m'alch. In men's league actl n Monday, Diiling wa.s at it again, s: ring a .375 to Ic.id his team to a fjurgamc sweep ol .Vl'icit Brackc;' Diiling had single g.imes of 131.. 139 and 112 for hi.s 381 Thurs day. Monday, he combined single games of 127, 142 and 106. More halanoed sroring U>d Bob Hcnidon’s team to its victory ever Dilling’s outfit Thursday. Bob and Pat Herndon cante In with 327 and 321 sets, respeeitive- Wimp Bowen scored a 118 line and 325 set to pace Ramsey’s team. .1' 'll.- c-f five Diiling Heating bowlcns topped the 300 mark in their M-onday swoe;) of Bra’cki'tt’s team. Aiding Dilling'.s 375 were Il.i.'Cld Barber’s 317, Gone Stone’s 311 and Jerry Hipps’ 307. Bu.'k V’incent t.:ppt’d Hie lo.st'rs with a 124-.342. Cub’.s Pairff St-rvice took four games from Mull Ramsey’.^ team a.s Ronnie Culbertson scored a 121 line and 340 set. Mu!) Ramsey’s 131 Ime and 341 .serie.s led the losers. Kirmy Blanton’s 147 line and 363 series led Childer’s R,->jfing gnd Heating to a three to one game victory over Quality Sand wich. Randy CulberOson scored a 140 line and 375 .set for Quality, .-.IT' Miib 484: ,0 LlV CENTRAL GRIDDERS — The Central Junior High Patriots, pictured above, ran their two year foot ball record to 10-2 this year by sporting o 5-2 record. Pictured front row, left to right, are Curtis Hidonon, Mike WUUoms, Jimmy Thompson, Harold Glass, Alfred Jodnetson, Scott Ledford, RondY
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