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KMHS Golfers Eyeing
One Of Better Seasons
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Kings Mountain High's
golfers, eyeing their best
season In years, open
Southwestern Conference
play next Thursday at
CherryvlUe where the
Ironmen will host the
Mountaineers, Bast
Rutherford and Chase.
Coach Bobby Jones has
two veterans — Johnny
Oamble and Mark
Saunders — back from last
year’s team, plus an
outstanding crop of
sophomores who led KM
Junior High to two straight
Foothills Conference
champion sh4>.
"U’s hard to tell any
thing this early In the sea
son," noted Coach Jones,
"but If the boys progress
like I think they will, we
should have the best team
we’ve had In several
)rears.’’
The Mountaineers have
been getting In nine holes
of practice each afternoon
at the Kings Mountain
Country Club, and most
players have been flirting
with par.
Oamble, the most
valuable player last
spring, played In several
tournaments last summer
and Jones said It helped hls •
game.
"He’s Mttlng the ball
longer," noted Jones, "and
hls attitude is real good.
He’s always been a hard
worker. He works as hard
at hls particular sport as
anybody we’ve ever had.
He’s really dedicated, and
you’ll see him on the golf
course just about anytime
you go over there.
“He’s a real com
petitor,” Jones went on.
“Hls biggest obstacle on
the course Is beating
himself. He wants to do
good so badly that
Susan Mtchem Selected
For WNCHSAA Classic
' Kings Mountain High's
Susan Mltchem has been
selected to play In the
Western N. C. High Schools
Activities Association
Classic on March 11 at
Catawba College.
Ihe all-star game pits
the top seniors from the
North and Southwestern
Conferences against the 10
best seniors from the
North and South Piedmont
loope.
Joining Mltchem on the
Western squad will be
Wanda Montgomery of
Crest, Nancy Scoggins and
Donna Blrod of North
Oaston, Susan Bolt of
Bums and five girls from
t|b Northwegterh Con-
flrence. Tommy Pruett of
Bums, a former KMHS
Kingis IVlountain Als Begin
IVe-Season Drilk On March 12
Ihe Kings Mountain A’s
semi-pro baseball team
will begin spring training
on Sat., March 12 at 3 p. m.
at City Stadium.
Coach Bubbles Brown
said anyone Interested In
tiytng out for the team Is
welcome to attend the first
meeting.
The A’s, who open Triple
County League play on
April 9, are coming of f a 28-
6 season and a second
place flnldi In the league.
But Brown’s hewing to add
some punch to hls lineup so
the A-s can return to the
tap of the league standings,
where they were two years
ago.
Among the returning
players this season are
Danny McDowell,
Clarence Ash, Darrell
Whetstlne, Wayne Bridges
and Richard Olllespie.
Brown has added several
new players, including two
strong pitchers, right
hander Mike Mahaffey of
Oastonla and southpaw
Alan Lindsay of Cherry-
vUle.
Brown’s talking to sev-
ei;al other players, in
cluding former Florida
State first team All-
American Dick Gold, and
former KMHS standouts
David Lancaster and
Kenny Falls.
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Begins Today In (k'eensboro
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means much in the
Tournament.
"R makes absolutely no
difference whether you’ve
been winning or losing
when you go Into the
Tournament,” he says.
'It’s what you do when you
get there.
■ "For example. In 1866 we
went Into the toumament
(to a seven-game winning
streak, but were beaten In
tk first round,
r "I also don’t think you
qsn discount Wake Forest
limply because they lost a
ctxiple of games at the end
oifthe season. They’ve had
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sometimes he lets bad
shots affect him.”
Jones said at this point
he’d have to consider
Oamble hls top player. He
played lumber one most of
last season and has three
years of varsity ex
perience.
"But,” said Jones,
"some of these younger
players are really pushing
him pretty good.”
Darrell Austin, Herbie
Beam and Darrell Forbes,
a threesome that led KM
Junior High to Its back-to-
back titles, are turning In
some fine scores and are
capable of playing the top
poeltlcn.
Others looking good so
far include Mike Howxe, a
junior who sat out last
season. Brad Tate and
Chip Harmon. Scott
Yarbro Is currently nur
sing a broken finger but
hopes to join the team
soon.
Jones polnta to Shelby aa
the team to beat in the
swe, and points to North
Oaston’s Larry Penley aa
the Individual to beat.
Penley recently signed a
golf grant-ln-ald with
CIsmson.
"But,” says Jones, "1
really believe we can be a
contender If our people
play iq> to their potential."
TTie Mountaineers will
play an eight-match
regular season schedule.
The conference tourney la
set for Shelby on May 9 and
the association tour
nament at Shelby on May
16-17.
KM’S two home mat
ches, on .^rll 7 and April
38, will be played at Kings
Mountain Country C3ub.
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KM U!A1»B John
Gamble, above, returne for
Us fOurtb season on the
KMHS golf team this
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coach, will be head coach
ot the team.
Mltchem will follow In
the footsteps of several
KMHS standouts who have
been selected to represent
their school In the annual
all-star event. In fact, her
older brother, Ken, who
went on to play basketball
at Pan American
University In Texas, once
played In the game.
George Adams, who
went on to make All-
American at Gardner-
Webb and spent three
seasons In the ABA, and
Otis Cole, who placed at
Florida State and went up
against UCLA for the
i'jlatlonal champlpnshlp,
are previous most valuable
players In the classic.
a tremendous season.”
Star center Tommy
LaGarde remains doubtful
for the Tournament. The 6-
10 Olympian has missed
Caroltoa’s last six games
with a knee Injury. It won’t
be known until late In the
week whether or not he will
be able to play.
‘ 'Tommy has had a great
season for us," says Smith.
"I’m happy that Phil Ford
and Walter Davis made the
All-ACC first team. How
ever, If he had not been In
jured, I think Tommy
should have been on the
first team, too, since we
won the regular-season
champion til Ip.”
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