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Elisabeth MoQIU drives past an live prints to help the Little Moon-
mldentUled B-S Central pUjrer In tatnettes to a 80-41 victory,
niursday’s opening sesMon Jayvee girls
Jayvees Divide With R-S
(FromPagei)
iTIie Uttle Mountaineers
Rtoed eight straight one-
nand-one loul (q>portunl-
tles In the critical part ol
the ballgame and finished
the game with a miserable
Mor-2T showing at the
charity stripe.
KMHS led 88-38 at half
time and 44-87 after three
periods. But the UtUe HUl-
toppera came back to tie
the game at 62-all after
regulation and outscored
the UtUe Mounttes 6-1 In
the overtime period.
"I was very pleased with
our discipline,” noted
Coach Dennla Dukes. “Our
Idds are very close to being
a good basketball team.
With none of them having
much playing experience
from the Junior high. I’m
pleased with the effort
Wrestlers Lose,
But Gf^^n b
Still Unbeaten
Kbigs Mountain High’s
wrestlers dropped their
opening regular season
match last Thursday night
at Ashbrook, 61-10.
Heavyweight David
Oordon,' who was named
the most vahiable wrestler
m the recent Oaston In
vitational Tournament,
registered his fourth
straight victory with a first
period pin over Metis Ban
ner. Robert Ingram decl-
atoned Tom Dlemllun 10-7
for the only other KM vic
tory.
The Mountaineers travel
to Shelby Wednesday for a
non-conference match and
go to Hunter Hiaa Thurs
day for another non-league
bout.
08 Pd. - Jeff Ledford
(A) ptaiaod Brad Drum.
106 - Ronnie Syts (A)
won by forfeit.
113 - Keith Wells (A)
pinned Sammy Bell.
119 - David Clover (A)
wcm by forfeit.
136 - Barry Felton (A)
pinned Lawyer Lewis.
182 - Mike Parker (A)
won by dlaq. over Ponder
SherrlU.
they’re giving.
“I was real upset after
the game,’’ he continued,
“because I felt like the loss
was partially my fault. I
think we got a UtUe ner
vous and I'm the type of
coach that's Intensive and
Ithlnk it carried over with
the kids. They might have
gone out there and felt the
pressure themselves. But
It all bolls down to the fact
that we blew the ballgame
and I hope we can Improve
on that."
Terry and Thomas
McCUln paced the KMHS
scoring attack, with 18 and
13 points req>ectlvely. Je
rome Miller added nine
and Mike Adams eight.
KM’S girls used their
speed to overcome a big
height disadvantage and
post their first victory In
the opener.
Barbara McClain of KM
was the game’s top scorer
with 31 points, Annette
UtUeJohn added 13 points
and Cheryl Leach eight.
Coach Joe Rountree said
he was highly pleased with
146 — Cary Costner (A)
pinned Charles Jenkins.
166 - Thm BatnhUl (A)
pinned Normsn Phillips.
187 - Rick Morris (A)
dec. Cary McClain.
“R-S could shoot real
well from the outside," he
noted, "and had that big
height advantage so we
had to combat that with
speed. I think aU the girls
hustled and played a real
good control game. I was
real pleased with the ef
fort.”
Rountree said he had
planned all season to run a
two-team attack, sub
stituting by “fives" In
stead of Individuals. Bit
one of his key players quit
the squad last week and
that upset the team’s
Junior High
Jayvees Can
CUnch Tide
Ktaiga Mountain Junior
ngh’s glris baaketbaUeri
can claim a share of the
The Lady Patriots ran
their record to lO-l Thurs
day with a 48-18 victory
over lincointon to etay In a
tie with Buma for the
league lead.
Sheryl Qoode ecored a
career high 18 points snd
pulled down 18 rebounds to
lead Thursday’s win.
DlaiM WUllams added 14
points and seven rriiounds
and Karen Roberta contri
buted six points and a
aiqwr defensive game.
KM held the Lincointon
ladles scorelesa In the
second half after leading
>1-18 at Intermlaslon. The
Lady Patriots shot 40
percent from the floor and
60 percent from the foul
ItM while Uncolnton shot
only 30 percent.
“I was really proud of
the good all-arotmd game
the girls played,” noted
Coach Becky Summltt. "It
was by far their best
performance of the season.
They were moving the ball
well on offense, taking
good shots, and hltUng
them.
“Our defense,” she
added, "also did a super
Job. We only gave up six
field goals and aU of them
were In the first half.
Everybody hustled and
gave 100 percent.
“I hope we continue to
play well today at East
Lincoln," she continued.
“Since this will determine
the conference cham-
plonahlp, we would like to
have a lot of supporters at
this game.”
The KM varsity girls
continued to play weU In
the nightcap, but came out
on the losing end of a 4841
score. A slow start hurt the
Lady Pats as they feU
behind 0-1 In the first
Debbie , Appling led the
KM scoring with 17 points,
Kim Gladden added 10 and
Andrena Goode eight.
Appling also led In the
rebounding department
with 13.
“We played an ab
solutely awful first half
and found ourselves down
by 16 at halftime,” noted
coach Candy Alberglne.
“We decided at halftime
that we had embarrassed
ourselves and we had to
get super tough In the
second half.
“Our defense came
aUve," she added, “and we
were able to force Lin
cointon Into many tur
novers and we took ad-
vants^feof them.'
Tuesday, December 14, 1976-MIRROR HERALD Page 5
MtNiBtaln’s Darryl Friday leoka tor to force a
.someone to throw the haaketbaU to In banded tb
' Ihnraday’s Jayvee game with B-8 loss of the
Patriots
Wm6&6
Kings Mountain Junior
High’s wrestlers opened
their 1076-77 season
Wednesday with am Im
pressive 66-6 victory over
West McDowell.
The Patriots host unde
feated Asheville in their
first home match tomor
row at 4 p. m. Asheville
was the only North Caro
lina school to defeat the
Pats last sesMon.
Kings Mountain won
eight first period pins last
week, with 167-pound
Kenny Womack recording
the fastest m 38 seconds.
Maurice Jamerson, wrest-
Ihig In the l47-paund divi
sion, pinned hla man In 81
seconds.
THE RESULTS
00 Pd. - Terry McClain
(KM) pinned Hutchins. ^
100 - Robert Oates
(KM) pinned Ooodson.
107 - Bernard Womack
(KM) won by forfeit.
114 - Jeff Guyton (KM)
pinned Kallam.
131 - Husklna (WM)
pinned Robert Sheffield.
138 - Johnny Ross (KM)
pinned WlUlama.
184 - Jeff RoweU (KM)
pinned Holland.
140 - Tbdd BeU (KM)
pinned Cross.
147 — Maurice Jamerson
(KM) pinned Palmer.
167 - Kenny Womack
(KM) pinned Hoyle.
180 - Darrell Brown
(KM) pinned Gardner.
Uhl. — Lenny Thompson
(KM) pinned Lewis.
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