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IS Lo* )Ute 1, 714 A Ri:^ Thurs<Jiay, Nlov«mb«r 9, 1972 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. O HERALD SPORTS By GARY STEWART Gaston Teams Voted Into SWC, Association I app'ly until Monday and tho SPC sc'herlule. He had East Rutherford £PC in a non-eonferenoe gam<‘ so , opener against Bessemer Cit^- will ' sahooLs felt they needed more' By GARY STEWART Herald Sports Editor MOORESVIIXE — Four new time'for study. The committee is teams .were unajiimously voted i to report its findings to WNCHS- Into the Western H. C. High. AA executive secretary W, ScJiools Activities Association' Clary witiiin the next two weeks here Wednesday hut a flftli i 3t. Stephens High School of setiioal’s request for admission was set aside for a twowoek stu- Q>'- _ East Gaston, North Gaston and Bessemer City high schools were voted into the Southwest Confei- ence, giving that league 13 tc<am.s. Hickory had applied along with HlbriUn for admission into the NWC but witlidrew ife request. Clary, who had earlier been given aulliority to draw up new schidoles for lire entire associa tion, said Looking Back On The Good And Bad Spots Of The 72 Grid Year Looking back on the disappointments and the excit ing moments of the 1972 King.s Mountain High School football sea.son: 1 Trinitv I “-v aiepnerrs witnurawnl The Mountaineers could have easily finished ^2 or: fo, ad^i^n tiS the Po^dbiiity of Trinity join- 9-1 but Coach Bobby Jones isn t entirely disappointed overj Piedmont tWerenee hm wvrH?.r"S his team’s 6-4 reconl. encp record.s will moot in a play playing both King.-: M iintain aiiJ, b.rlh Cr)a:.'h Bobby Jonc.- ol Kings; count as a iion-conlercnce game off game to determine the South Point on the same date. M,j.untain and Grady Pope if East remains on the schedule, league’s repre.sentadve in the as- A-i a re.sult c! the three now East Rutherford are hoping that; tlowe^'er, if the 'M<»untii‘s play sr,ciatian playoffs. Originally, the •schools joining the .SVVC, King“ can .•)<• arranged. Jonc.5 noted that: one of the NWC teams, the Bes- league was split into two divi- Meuntain will face at le;tst two the Mountaineers would rather semcr City game will .lunl in sions but that plan wa.s kiljt'd new opponents next fall. Tne centinue to play East than to liie canlerenoe standing,-i. iifter .strong opposition by Kings Mountaineers will iplay East Ga.s-■ travel to one ol the NWC cities. ' The a.s.«)ciation memner.s iiad Mountain, Shelby, South Point ton and North Ga.ston and drirpi Kings Mountain’s 1973 .schedule, t re.st and R-S Central. as ol now, shapes up like this: August 2.'), at Be.ssemor City; If Clary can’t come to a mu-, gept. 2. at North Gaston; Sept. 9, tual agreement w-ith Kings Linc'olntun home; Sept. 16, open aid he would have I East and .S<juth Poiirt flap'; Sept. 23, at Burns; .Sept. 30. E late*-- within two weeks He ' schedule mixup, there’.i a ■ (01 .\\VC team! home; Oot. ri retiy drawnTu^^che possioility that the Mountainecs! t, at East Ga.stou; Oct. 14, Cha.^-' o to revise two rules in erdet to and Lincclnton. accept the thr<e new iwims In the 3WC. The WNCH<,V.\ vote! to delete the rule .stating tliat no eonterence con have more than 11 members; and dropped tfie nUc requiring every team in a canference to play every other Other items on Wednesday's a- genda dealt with changes In ittlis gov'eming track, golf and tefinis. It wa.s agreed that the aaaocia- tion golf tournament would ;be a twj-day, 3G-hole event, instead oi a one-day tournament as has been the ease in the past. All- Conference teams wifi ajtw be Hibriten of Lenoii was voted into' slate.s the NoTthwoKt Conference, givlig already drawn up the sche- 1 , , r vvv(j teams !' rr, o ' L"''' that loop 11 m™. I dule but h-;e U,^vise Tn L'^To^n"o^rgame. Th"; m Nort ■dhili^-oF’Trin.itvtM" include Newton^Conover, Sheiby homo. ' The SWC ^hcdule wLU be re- Hudson and Lenoir. If KM plays vised every twp year.s with ea ':i named in goll. a NWC team, East will be drop- Next season 'will protiably majtk selwol taking on two new citpjn- The schools also voted' to al- ped from tho schedule. tlie fir.jl lime ever lhat the ents. low girl tennis players t3 pSay in South Point has cxpresred a de- .Mountaineers have played Shelby | At the end of each season, the the girls association tournarmmt, CuKtmued On Page Siu the SR.:, Mounties Cut Out Mistakes, Top Pack 24-13 I Piedmont timference but WNCHS- ; ^ JTesidem Mai Brown at Shel-1 Another factor wiiich entered Vi ^ 1^*^ could have been better,’ ^Ider that request. Trinity did not ^^e-^ ma^^^the * sire to meet KannapolL? of the In the season’.'^ finale, the season I two teams with the best confer- he said. “When you look back, you can always see games | .f vrary mage m me swe that you should have won. But we can also look back at a couple of games we could have lo.st.’’ Tho games Kings Mountain could have w'on were R-S i Central, Cre.st and possibly South Point, “But,” noted, Jones, “we could have lost that game Friday night at IJncolnton and we could have lost at Bums the week I “Overall,” he continued, “6-4 is a pretty, good indi- Young Quarterbacks, Entire Line | cation of the way we played. But Tm not satl.sfied with ¥ Wf*— • tH I^ lhat kind of record.” | Lead mounties To Winning Season The Mountaineers this year accomplished great 1 Lanay Thornburg, Kings Moun-, ball around any whereas to had strides in that they handed the school only Its second win- t:Un High defensisx-lackJe, was been ■icbblln-’ the map from ning season since the last championship year of 1964. The ! talking to line Coach BHl Cashion center at lea.s’t three or femr tiime.s Mountaineers had finished 7-3 in ’70, when the seniors on i last w-eek after learning .that the a ball game." this year’s club were sophomores. Thus, iJie 13 seniors on Mountaineers’ first two quarter-1 jone-s°wouldn’t single out any- this year’s team were mainly responsible for both of KM’s Joimson and Tony; bedy, but noted that everybody winning years in the past eight seasons. Faiu. hr^ been ruled aeariemioai-. gave a superb effort. ly ineligible for tS»e season s finale ! '*vVe knew we would ha\'e to do Llnxilntcn. a better jeo of blocking." he said. That w'ill make it tough," "And our defen.se played a great m.s, G 1. City. Stin- ssemer nts . Kirk- jn .St., h of. ber , les. 207 C, an- I, Mon- Moim- Evan.s, ■stonla, daugh- Kings Hyde, ■p tlip fovem- ipital. le Lib- OIB to- irtcrly are on i s per Both . share- i Kings Mountain got off to a great 3-0 start and ap-, poared headed for a .spot in the WN'CHSAA playoffs. But: \ year wnn v.ciones over rourns anu i^tncomion. | best thing that’s happened to us.; thought they might The Mountaineers had .some .serious injury problems' 7’’.^ ^ « Ti but the main reason for their losing streak of four out erf blc-dcing oi five games were sensolc.ss mistakes. In a way, Ca.sh.ian turned out to I be quite a prophet. The line, both I offensive and defensively, Kings Mountain’s best showing probably came in the played its beat game of the year third gtune of the season when the Mountaineers stopped ^ result the Mauntainecss i you’U hVve lot c penalties. But then unbeaten East Riuherfoi'd 14-7.1710 next week KM’.s ® ; tiie.ro new kUs weren’t nervous Jcne.s pointed out that tire Mountaini^rs were penalized only 25 yards and had only one illeg al prccedure penalty. "U.mally, when you change quarterback-t lo.iing streak begtui when the Mounties heppy .South Point 28-19 lost to pass- nuig sta-son. ^ . , atrd did a good jeo." txjplwauore Chuck Au-stin, who: AusUn quarterbacked all but! , had appeared in only one game,; piay^ but young Southwell I I KM'S season epener against 2-A pt the .Mountaineers In scoring The mo.st disappointing losses were the 12-7 home-1 Bessemer City, and fre.^ltm a n position once and aso had a hand coming setback to R-S Central and the 22-14 loss to Cre.sc: Steve Southwell, wno was caliei b, the clinching touchdown, an 1 in tho home finale . . . both games given away on mi.s-! “P horn the jayvee team Thu.s-1go.ya,-d run by sophiomore half- takes. ' quarterback back Johnny Byers. : and played well. The Mountain-1 -phe Mountaineers put two T, . , -j 4U SI » • ij 1- o* fumbles andiouick touchdowns on the board But, like Jones said, the Mountaineers could have had twd passes intercepted, twt hi the second period to build up easily lost to Burns and Lincolnton. But fans never look t.bc team cut down on their un- a i4-7 halftime lead, After l n- at the games you could have lost. They only remember timely Trnstakes that cost them; ^^ointon cut it to 14-13 in the ,4 jV' ■ "■ s'.f-ji " ’f-'x 'm 1*^-1 the ones you should have won. >1^ —Elementary Program Needed .So much for this year. Let’s look at the downfall of Kings Mountain football and kick around a few hints that might help bring the program back. Since 1964 when KM captured its last SVVC title with a perfect 10-0 record, the Mountaineers have had a record of 40 wins. 38 losses and four ties. In conference play, i however, that record stands at only 30 victories, 35 de-,' feats and four ties. victories against, Crest, R-S Cqn- ^ third periud, the Mountaineers tral and South Point. . pyt lo points on the boai-d in ‘These quarterbacks didn’t, the final chapter to break the make nearly as many mistakes game open, as our otlier two had been mak-; The Mountaineers blew three ing," commented Coach Bobby i other sccring chances. After Jones. scenng They didn’t bobble the: gouthwell tossed a 32-yard pass:.— - - ■ I Harlee Davis on his first 1/yiiflJfC' *|*A &rly play as a varsity performer, he A w a15K . fumbled at the five yard line. iBr , ^ i However, the .Wolves fumble *r|iS ' the ball right loack on their sec- A *• VWWlllJ j ond play of the ensuing series and fn mmw ■ D 1 Marcus Floyd scampered in on a I A IW^yA |fl||0 handoff from Austin to put the LINEBACKERS SPARK FINAL WIN — Linebackers Mark George, leit, and Dennish Hogue helped spark Kings Mountain's Moun taineers to their 24-13 victory and a winning (6-4) season Fri day night ot Lincclnton. George, a senior, wound up a great three-yeor career by intercepting a pass on bis final play of the game and returning it to the Lincolnton five to set up a 20-yctrd field good by John Bridges. Hogue, a two-year starter, will return next year to bolster the Mountaineer line. WNCHSAA Final Standings . NORTH KEDMONT OOHFMERCE Mountaineers ahead, John Brid Ceaf. -- - Little Mounties Beat Southwest In Finale Thombuig Is ! Player Of Week The yeai'-by-year record reads like this: 1964, 3-7; 1966, .5-5; 1967, 3-6-1; 1968, 5-3; 1969, 3-4-1; 1970, 7-3. 1971, 4-4-2; 1972, 6-4. ' -'lawesviue DIVISION I W T L 8 0 All Geeaies booted the first three Kings Mountain High School is , ges TOOtea me msi u asking the Trl-County Junior: Kings Mountain High's £re^- straight POi^s aftei touchdo ^ Conference to waive Its ,T,en tcotballers ended their aec- The downfall of King.s Mountain football apparently started in 1964, that final championship seasoa That year, the school board elected to discontinue the elemen tary school football program. North Rowan 7 1 Nortti Davidson 3 5 West Rewan 3 5 North Stanly 0 8 DIVISION II East Rowan 5 3 Davie County 4 4 South Iredell 4 4 North IredeU 2 6 jtoot wasdowned injhe end_zone. A TrfCounty rule currently; The Little .Mountaineer, \viio 8 ; for a safety. The Wolves came states that If an athlete plays one ♦ ) Back in the heyday of KMHS football, every elemen tary school in the system (Grover, East, West, Noith) had a football team and those schools competed on a city i notthwestehn conference basis. Each team played the other twice in a seven-game season. When the elementary football program was in effect, there were appioximaiely 320 bws playing football In Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain High School had three teams of its own, a ninth grade team, a junior varsity squad and the varsity outfit. Now, kids do not play football until they get in the eighth grade, their attention is turning from football to other things. The main reason given for discontinuing the ele-! xjwmasvOle mentary school program in 1964 was that the coaches' ctaiich..,^- handling these boys were not trained coaches and were! Albemarle teaching them bad footbeill habits. If the school board Asheboro would do it, it couid re-organize an elementary program Kannaipoiis and assign qualified teachers to coach these elementary j ^xlngton learns. Tho Little .Mountaineers, out passing and Davis picked off varsity sport, he is ineligible toi services upstart IS*'q'uStM- untouch.^ "mS th^ : back Steve Southwell end zone for a 14-0 cushion. Young Southwell was called up with a 4-3 record. In twv) j-ears Lincolnton drove 25 yards fol-; to the varsity footbal team for: under Blalock the Little Moun- ’mwintT n fumble late in the its season's finale at Lincolnton - talnecrs are lu-4. . j;,-*- .- 'iiftov i-ttcii.TT- niini’tprtuipt'*; Chris I Tomntj* Manning, an end, was ' DIVISION I Lenoir 7 2 Alexander Oentrai 7 2 Mpt^ttlon 3 6 County 2 7 Valdese 0 9 DIVISION II Wilkes Central 8 1 Newton-Oonover 6 3 Watauga 5 4 Hudson 4 5 VicDcwell 3 6 seven games and scored se\-m Senior defensive tackle Lanny Thornburg is Fulton’s final pla>'« <Tf the week for the 1972 IC-ilgs I Mountain High foocball eeakun. Thornburg gave a sBrong de touchdoswis. I fcinslve effort last Friday night McDetl'tt was second in both as the Mountaineers defeated departments with 335 yards' Lincolnton 24*13 fci a final record ru-JUng and four touchdowns.' of six wins and four defeats. TYu* Jackson gained 172 yards and Mountaineers were 5-4 in South- scored throe two-point conver- ' western Conference .d.ty. sions Southwell had t® yards and a.s a result ol being named the *ne touchdown, Johnson 62 yards week’s top playtr, the 195-jjfunder and one touchdown and Wray 20; will receive a free g2t traon the j'ards and a pair of t-wo-point con- j mtm’s department o: Fulton’s De- versions. partment Store. The Little Mounties finished ' Other pLiyers of the week this fourth in the final TYi-County j year wen- Jake Bridges, Tony CcjYerence standings. Shelby was; Falls, .Mark Cleofge (twice), Har- . - - . _ . . Jerry Val- Hogue, Johnny Johnson. c» I only a.sk the board of education to look Bround. Every ne^by town whose high school is annually strong in football has a sound elementary program. I give you Shelby, Gastonia, Belmont, and others. When a football team is suffering through losing sea sons, the majority of the fans pat the blame on the lilame on the cxiach. But the fans here can’t honestly blame on Coach Bobby Jones. He has b«ten here only two years and the Mountaineers were losing long before he came. The board of education and other school officials should take a long look at the overall football picture here. There are currently seven assistant football coaches at KMHS: Bill Cashion, Bo Goforth, Tommy Pruitt, Steve Baker, John Blalock, Blaine Froneberger and Allen Dixon. There are three other coaches at Central, Porter Griggs, Barry Gibson and Jimmy Owens. The school board cannot truthfully tell the football fans of Kings Mountain tfiat there are no (Qualified coaches here to lind an eiementary program. Concord South Rowan 17 2 8 SODTHWESTEBN CONFERENCE DIVISION I Orest 5 4 5 4 Ruthertondton 4 14 4 15 Bums 3 6 4 6 CherryvUle 2 7 2 3 7 Chase 0 9 0 10 DIVISION II SheBjy 9 0 10 0 south Point 8 1 8 11^ Bast Rutherford 5 13 6 1 S' Kings iMountain 5 4 6 4 Lhiicolntoh 3 6 3 7 PliAY-OfTS; 11-10.72 MooresviUe vs. East Rowan at Catawba Col lege. ThamasviHc vs. StatesvlUej ^ Mountaineers’ season finale at; "rhe WoU’es got on the board i Unless the Tri-County Confer- Lincolnton. Manning responded to I an « f V J ■ HI n 1 again early in the third quarter ence waives its lule. Southwell call oy throwing a 75 yard j CnAIHniAW S l.aWngf AIMMff I 0 HMK when Billy uMurphy broke off will have to pay varsity basket- touchdown pass to Chris Johnson 0 • w oowao tadcleand went 54 :yards to make bal and hasci Dali. Kings Mountain’s other »o“'e f 1 « • fV^. AiatfSt It 14-13. Lindsay’s PAT attempt, Dlayine these^ame on a 25-yard run by JjInm^ ' fiOCcll llclIll'tnrO C vOIOall VUllll wax wide to the Jf; vanity sports will hurt him,” said Thompson, who ttie g^e's - a while it appeared that "’1*® k.mhs head football coach and leading rusher with 86 yarda Several persons here are making plans to enter a might be the difference. ; athletic director Bobby Jones. . 9* ground ga^rs for KM semi-pro Dixie Football League in the fall lEyers, who was the game's “He’s good enough to play varsity top rusher with 137 yards in 13 baseball and could see a lot of ^ Manning with three Thirty-five interested players, including three former carries, took an option pitch from ; action in basketbal.’ | Blal^ cited Jackson,' college standouts, attended an organizational meeting Southwell Wim seven routes re unnecessary ■ MoDevitt, Johnson, Thompson.! Monday niglit at the Kings Mountain Community Center tnaining and criticism from some fans and 'jacky'Wray,Jo€yOnnand,Cl*«ve- fcngs IVIountain^^.eft e parents after caling young South- land Mackie, Jefl ones and Kenny well up to the varsity team. Burris for their defensive play. ,„ • J Thompson finished the I'ear as 'We had no choice, said team’s top ground gainer and Jones. "1 tlunk Southall proved | 434 jg jj, ♦ ^ ns vz4 m r WVkA4 niTV% 11T\ . " SO-yard touchdown and Bridges' booted his third PAT for a 21-13 cushion. Mark George, who played an other great game despite an in jury, intercepted a pass at mid field with two minutes remaining I and returned it to the Lincolnton i five to set up KM’s final three ; points, a 20-yard field goal by ; Bridges. George, Dennis Hague, Thom- to everybody that calling him up was a good decision. He played well and heped us have a winning J season." ; Wright Wins and another such meeting is planned for Monday of next week. Other interested players are urged to attend that meeting. at Statesville; Lenoir vs. Wilkes Central at North WUkeaboro; Shelby va South Point at Bel- TftOTlt. neirs play at South Point or Shel- l{-ai-73 WMCHSAA Ohanplim- ■ SautKwMtMn 4rea or Le- nok Rhyaa Oollego. The Southwestern Confeience. Final Contest has no rule prohibiting freshmen : to play varsity sports. In the i A former Kings Mountain high SWe, freshmen are eligible for school All-Conference footJoal! burg, Jerry Valentine. Tommy varsity play if the high school! payer is the winner of the Her- Shlrley and Larry Hamrick spark-: they attend includes a ninth. ad’s final football contest of the ed the ICM defensive charge while the entire line blocked well on offense. The Mountaineers outgained the Wolves on the ground, 262 .yards to 211 yards, and through THE STATIS’nCS First Dowas ■ • KM . . . 7 Yards Hushing . . 262 Yards Passing . . . 37 Pas-ses Att . 7 Passes Comp. . .. . 3 Passes Int. By . . . . 2 grumbles Lost . ... 2 Pimt* .. 3-83 Yarda Penaliaad ... 25 grade. ; 1972 season. I Leonard W’light, a KMHS AH- I S\VC guard in 1^6 under Shu ■ Carlton, tied with five other per sons with only one incorrect guess , , r hut came closer to the tle-break- All tenth graders planning to 37 j^ings Jayvee Drills Begin Monday L ' !■ Lincolnton game. , . junior varsity basket-: ^t, who missed on Georgia Line tall team are asked to meet in, ^ afternoon at , ^ {je-breaker score of 33 211 5:^ for the flrrt p^ctice session.; po^ts. He’ll leceU-e $15. ~ u John Cobb and Pat Sipe, wdio 21 headJJic jaj^ce program He!a„„ Duke-Tech game, 41 coached his team to a 16-4 rec- second and third place » I xr, * tie-breakar guM« ol M . Mountaineers will They’ll spUt second and 4-361 open season play at home on It: Dec. 2 against BelmonS. CosfiMtied Oh Page Sm Bud Medlin, a former All-Conference performer at Kings Mounteiin High School, will be head coach of the team and Champion’s Landscaping, whose slowpitch soft- ball team copped the state championship last summer, will sponsor the team. According to Medlin, players will perform on a volun- teei basis until the team can realize a profit of $5,000, the approximate cost of entering the league and outfit- ing 40 players. This mark.s the second time in recent years tliat Medlin and otha’ persons here have attempted to organ ize a semi-pro football team. In 1968, a team was organ ized but moved to Gastonia after the sponsor backed down on the deal. “That won’t happen this time,” Medlin noted. “Carl Champion of Champion’s Landscaping is behind us one hundred percent. All he asks is that we have enough playei’s who are dedicated enough to stick this thing out until we get out of the hole.” Medlin said the team will hold at least a one-week^ spring training session ne.xt M^lrch and will begin sum mer practice in August The KM team, which will prob ably be called the Bears, will compete in the Northern Division of the Dixie League along with Greenville, Charleston, and othfe's.
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