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Page 6—MIRROR-HERALiD—Tuesday, February 14, 1078 .^,GW!V ?TeWN!T High School Football Rules Will Be Diflerent Short cuts from the world of sports: Former North Qaston High golfer Lsurry Penley is off to a fast start as a freshman with the Clemson Tigers. Penley won his match last week at Hilton Head, S. C., to help the Tigers defeat rival South Carolina 31-15 In their season’s opener Through 17 games, Kings llountsdn’s Butch Blalock Is averaging 13.5 points per game for the Tennessee Tech Oolden Eagles. His hl|^ game was 23 points in a victory over Southern Tech . .. High School football fans will recognise some rule changes next fall. At Its mid-winter meeting recently, the National Federation Rules Com mittee acted on 10 dianges. The two you’ll likely see most are the awarding of an automatic first down to the kicking team anytime a kicker is roughed (previously It was a 15-yard penalty) and reducing the penalty tor an invalid fair catch signal from 15 to five yards... With the winter sports seasons almost over. It’s time to look back and hand out some congratulatloiu for jobs well done. Deserving pats (»i the backs are the Kings Mountain High Wrestlers who shared the Southwestern 8-A Conference title with East Oaston and Shelby. If the conference still gave player and coach of the year awards, they would have to go to Chuck (3ordon and Coach Steve Moffitt; the Kings Mountain Junior High girls who brought the school Its first girls gasketball title on the varsity level, and their coach, Ctmdy Alberglne, who does a super job with young talent; and even though they didn’t win the conference title, the junior high boys and their fine young coach, Ken Napier, tor sticking together and salvaging a fine 10-4 season after their top three scorers quit the team . Auto racing gets back Into full swing February 24 with the running of the Suidrt^ 500 at Hickory Speedway. Qualifying will be held on February 38- 24-25 and the Sunday race will get underway at 1 p. m. Drivers from seven states have already In dicated they’ll compete . . . Laura Brown, who did her student teaching and coaching last year at Kings Mountain Junior High, Is now teaching and coaching girls athletics at Belmont Junior High . . . Slowpltch softbalP uniq>lres from North and South Carolina will meet tor a clinic March 5 at the Kings Mountain Community Center . . . Former Kings Mountain High baskelballer Oinger Finger coached her Crest High School jayvee girls team to an unbeaten season and the Southwestern 8-A Conference title this year. Her 12th straight, and final, victory came Thursday night over Kings Mountain, 80-38 . . . Belmont Abbey’s Crusaders, 17-7, need one more victory to hand Coach Bobby Hussey his lOOth collegiate victory. Hussey, In his seventh year with the Ousaders, compiled a 65-7 record and won two Southwestern 8-A Conference championships In three years at KMHS prior to taking the Abbey post . . . College football recruiters are missing the boat on an outstanding lineman. Kings Mountain High’s David Cordon. The recruiters say Q<ndon Is too short. Baseball scouts said Babe Ruth was too alow, too. If you’re good, you’re good, period.. One of the biggest tractor pulls of all time will be held Friday through Sunday at Atlanta In ternational Raceway. The top pullers In the nation will be seeking part of the $34,100 purse. Including Tommy and Charlie Berry of Kings Mountain .. . You can talktomo 4^\ ■bout ^ I \ ANY typ« of Uf* inauranoo Don't (eel you have to go to one plaoe lor life In- turance planning, to another lor annuities, group, hospitalisation, dIaaMlIty Income, edueallon and retirement plana. I can take care ol all your peraonel. family, and bualneea Inaurance needa — because ol my many years of eaperlenea In helping people with a vari ety ol coverege and protection programs, and be- eauss I have the laeliltlee and know-how ol agreet Inaurance company behind me. H you have an Inauranoe need, cell me today. LOU tAKTTI 864-4521 739-2640 Registered Representative OMeOopolitan Where the future is now Gordon Wins Sectional, Sets School Record For Wins Kbtge Mountaln’a David Ckirdon set a school record for career victories and became the first heavyweight ever to win the outstanding wreetler award In the Southwestern Sectional Wrestling Tournament Fiidaty and Saturday at Independence High School In CSiariotte. Gordon won all tour of his matches there to give him a career record of 48-6. The 48 vlctorlea break the old record of 47 set by Hal Olass In hla four-year career. Gfordon, now 10-0 so far thla year, claimed Ida first three victories by pins, then declsloned East Mecklenburg’s Tommy Burke In the finals. Oordon was the only Mountaineer to win first place but three others qualified for the Western Reglonala which will be held Friday and Saturday at Hickory High School. Johnny Ross finished second In the 133-pound class and Robert Ingram finished second at 188, both men losing their finals by two-point decUfons. Also qualifying for the reglonala was Maurice Jamerson, who finished third In the 147-pound class. Two other Mountaineers, 167-pound Norman Phillips and 119-pound Sammy Bell, bare^ missed a berth In the reglonala by finishing fourth. spom As a team, the Moun taineers finished fourth with 101^ points aind that represented the best finish of any S-A achool. North Mecklenburg was first with 186 points, In dependence second at 136 and West Charlotte third at 106H. After KMHS came Charlotte Catholic 100^, East Meek 97H. South Meek 63, Shelby 61, Myers Park 86, ^ast Oairton 86^, Oarlnger 84, South Point 81, North Qaston 33, Chase 33, Mt. Pleasant 30, Olympic 18, West Meek 6, Harding 6 and Crest 0. “Taam-wlse we did read well,” noted Cbach Steve Mpiritt. “I was kind of surprised but really pleased. We were toi It all the way. "Our four guys that qualified tor the reglonals can still win the state ctuunplcnmty,” he added. "When you make It to the finals everyone Is good and fiMy can turn right around and win the reglonM and state.” Gordon appears to be headed tor a collision with Watauga’s 830-pound giant Bobby Cooper, the man that defeated Oordon tor the Western N. C. High Schools Activities Association title last winter. They’re In separate brackets In the reglonals and If both continue to win they'll meet for the regional ctuunplonahlp. "I think we’ll have good i^epresentatlon In, the reglonals,” rwted Moffitt. "We have two seniors and two srqphomores and If all of them can win their first round matches, they’ll qualify for the state.” The eight finishers In each weight class at Hickory will go to the state tour nament next week In Winston-Salem. Gordon’s most out standing wrestler trophy won at Charlotte gives him two outstanding Wrestler trophies already this season. He earlier won that same prise In the Oaston Invitational. ; Gordon will receive a permanent trophy and the school will house the jdaque which goes with it for one year. The trophy Is given In honor of R. B. Sandlford who drew up the plans for the state wrestling tournaments. Both KMHS Cage Teams In Tourney Vernon BeU rebounded a missed shot by Jeff Prescott and banked It off the glass with eight seconds left eaturdaty night to give Kings Mountain’s Mountaineers a 84-68 victory over Shelby and a berth In the Southwestern S-A Conference basketball tournament beginning tonight at Bums. The KM-Shelby game, played on the lions’ home coi^, became necessary after the two Cleveland County rivals tied for eighth place In the regular season standings with 6-13 swe marks. Only the top eight chibs qualify for the conference tour nament. The victory sends the Mountadneera Into am 8 p. m. game tonight agalmt regular season champion, Oest, which had to come from behind Friday night to whip the Mountaineers 61-48 In the final regular season game. The KMHS girls, who finished sixth In regular season play with an 610 mark, play third place Bast Qaston Wednesday at 6 p. m. The MountaUneere, lost their regulam season finale Friday to Crest, 66 46. BeU, a junior, played probably hla beat adl-round game Saturday as the Mountaineers knocked Shelby out of the tour nament tor the first time In years. He led both teams In scoring with 31 prints, grabbed nine big rebounds and had a big steal on the Shelby end of the court after hitting the winning basket. The Mountaineers traUed 43-88 going Into the final eight minutes but BeU scored 11 points during that span to bring them back. BeU was on the foul line with a one-and-one with eight seconds left and KM tralUng 88-63 when the stage began to be set tor the last-second heroics. BeU missed the foul shot, but Prescott rebounded for the Mountaineers. Prescott missed bhe foUow- up but BeU rebounded It and scored for the winning basket. The victory was the third In four tries tor the Motsitles over the lions this year. The two teams split thsir two regular season games and the Mountaineers took an opening round /Ictory over the lions In the County TIpotf Tournament. BeU had a strong sup porting east Saturday as afi of the Mountaineers played a big role In the victory. Prescott added 10 points and nine rebounds and hit two Mg free throws to narrow the gap to two points (48-40) In the final mliBites. fcrtc Dixon scored nine nnlnts. dished out seven asetets also hit a big ftae throw In the touitn quarter, and hit four straight jumpers from the top of the key to keep the Mountaineers hi the game In the third period. William Lockhart scored tour points and had soma Mg rebounds and played probably Ms best defensive game ri the year, and Elverette Burris scored six | points, played a good defensive game and In tercepted a desperation pass by Shelby as the game ended. The two teams were even hi field goals but KM won the game at the foul line. The Mountaineers hit 10 of 18 free throw a6 tempts and Shelby hit nine of 17. The Mountaineers gave first place Crest aU It could handle In FMday night’s regular season finale at the KMH8 gym. Oest jumped out to an-d i 0 lead but KMHS battled back to a 10-10 tie, then reeled off seven straight points for a 17-10 lead aftei the first quarter. The Mountaineers stayed out front 38-38 at halftime and were stUl on top 86-88 after three periods. But the Chargsrs outscored the Moun taineers 1613 In the fourth period to win It. crest won the game at the foul Une, hitting 13 of 10 shots In the fourth period. The Chargers, who were playing without starting print guard Otis Young, got 11 points from Bobby Huskey and 10 each from Isaac Hunt and Wendell Wilson. Bell led the Mountaineers with 18 points and Burris added 13. The KMHS girls led early but the taller Crest ladies took command In the second half to lock up fifth place with a 110-8 figure. CHenda Harris led the Lady Chargers with 16 points and Priscilla Rlckenbacker and Armette Littlejohn scored 18 each for the Mountalnettee. FRIDAY OntLSOAME KM (45) — Henderson 0, Rlckenbacker 18, Bristol, Ramey 8, Littlejohn 18, Bridges, Mack 3, Leach, Hickman. CREST (68) - Lee 10, Harris 15, Roberts 8, Watson 13, Woods 3, Nance 6. FRIDAY BOYSGAME KM (48) - Dixon, Prescott 8, Bell 18, Burrle 13, donlnger, Lockhart, Adame 7, McClain 3, Ellis 6, Falls. CREST (61) - Huskey U, WUeon 10, Chnnon 6, Hunt 10, Huntringer 6, Thompson 8. SATURDAY GAME KM (54) - Dbeon 8, Prescott 10, Bell 31, Burris 6, Adams, Lockhart 4, Bills 4. SHELBY (68) - Toms 8, Roark 3, Ckrmon 10, Mack 0, Hamilton 7, Savage 3, Ballard 3, Butlsr 3, Bowiss 1, Smith 6. VERNON BELL charges into Crest defender... State Champs To Be Honored nilSCILLA RICKENBACKBt tries to drive around taH Lady Charger.. The Kings Mountain 18- 16 year old girls softball team, which won the state tournament last summer and finished third In the World Series at WMtevUle, will be honored with an awsurds night dlrmer at the Western Slsslsr Steak House In Shelby on Thea., KMHS Jayvees Rnish Third In Conference Kings Mountain High’s jayvee cagers closed out their seasons last werii, both clubs finishing third In Southwestern Con- forence play. The girls split two games, defeating Bast Rutherford 46-18 and losing to undefeated Crest 60-38. Mary Moore led the sooting agabiat East with 31 and Kim Gladden led against Crest with 18. TTm boys won two of the three games, defeating South Print 87-81 and Oast 68-83 and losing to Bast Ruthsrford 83-83. Kenny Quinn led the scoring In every game, hitting 33 against South Print and 31 against Bast and Crest. Feb. 31 at 6 p. m. Thors will not bs a gusst speaker, but coaches Candy Alberglns and Laura Brown and msm- bsrs of the rscroatlon department staff will give brief comments and, prsasnt trophies. All 17 msmbsra of the team will receive In dividual trophies for finishing third In the World, and the spanaoring rscroatlon dspartment will be awarded the third place and sporstsmanshlp trophies. ANNOUNCING THE OPBIING OF HILDA MOSS TAX SBfVICE I OFFER YOU EXPERIENCEO. REASONABLE SERVICE Seven years EXPERIENCE in tax preparation. IiklivkluBl, Builneas, Farm, Partnership REASONABLE charges on every return, starting with |5 for 1040-A. One-day SERVICE on itandard deduction returns SERVICE by hometown resident. Summer SERVICE for Audits or any other probiems. Hours: Mondey-Friday 08; Saturday 0-1; Others Hours By Appointment. Phone 730-8108. Now preparing W3’s, quaitariy raports, etc. 9M West Gold Stroat WHAT IF YOU HAVE A CHIMNEY HRE7 1. IF YOU’RE LUCKY. 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