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Teil Page 2B PLAYER OF THE GAME Hickory - Richard “Big Cat” Parker, OT/DT, 6-5, 345, played both sides of the ball and made numerous tackles to help hold the Mountaineer offense to just 141 yards rushing. Kings Mountain - Brandon Roberts, DB, 37-yard punt re- The Kings Mountain Herald | turn and pass interception. Tyler Adams, WR, seven recep- tions for 58 yards. PLAY OF THE GAME With 1:42 left in the game, Hickory’s Big Cat Parker tack- led KM quarterback Renaldo Tate in the end zone for a safety which gave the Red Tornadoes a 9-7 victory and a berth in the State 3A playoffs. THE YARDSTICK SH KM First downs LL 15 Yds. rushing ~~ 110 141 Yds. passing 15 88 Passes 2-7-1 - 10-25-4 Yds. penalized 40 - 60 Fumbles lost 1 1 RUSHING Hickory - Brian Parson 13-58, Craig Barnette 10-52, Desmond Burch 2-13, Cole ory 9-(- 9), Jermaine McCain 3-(-4). KM - Aquine Simmons 24-108, Courtney Smith 7-31, Brandon Houze 2-3, Chris Jolly 5-1, Renaldo Tate 1-(-2). : PASSING Hickory - Kenworthy 2-7-1- 15. KM - Jolly 3-9-1-34; Tate 7- 16-3-54. RECEIVING + Hickory - Barnette 1-10, Brent Johnson 1-5. KM - Tyler Adams Lai7-68 : Montrell Banks 1-27, Josh Gash 1-9, Ron Goode 1-4. BY THE NUMBERS Hickory “7 0 0 KM 2-9 0:0. 00 hy FIRST QUARTER 7:16 - Hickory - Barnette, 15- yard pass from Kenworthy (Ryan Succop kick). 37-yard drive in 8 plays. FOURTH QUARTER November 8, 200% KM’s Brandon Roberts (2 left photo) and Courtney Smith (30 right photo) return kicks in Friday's game with Hickory at John Gamble Stadium. Hickory won 9-7. CLASSIC from page 1B of the private school players back when he coached AAU ball, and even though he hasn't seen them during their high school careers he can imagine how skilled they're going to be. “These guys are loaded,” he says. “These are the kids you're going to be seeing on TV play- ing in college and the NBA. I think this is going to be a treat for Kings Mountain to see legit- imate Division I players.” McDowell will have a young team this year (he lost four starting seniors and two All- Conference players off last year’s team) but he said young players need top-notch compe- tition to make them better down the road. “I want our kids to play against some good competition sp they can see what the next level will be and to know: that you have to be totally commit- ted’to what you're doing. “Most of our kids don’t pick up a basketball until November and it’s tough. Whether you play football, basketball or-base- ball you have to do it year round.” McDowell's team was sched- uled to scrimmage East. Rutherford on the road ve Suid of night. Saturday's event will act | as their final scrimmage prior to an early November 20 opening against North Gaston. Most of the Mountaineers’ returning players have been involved in football and didn’t join the team until this week. The Mountaineers lost All- Conference players Qwenshon Goode and Jamal Byers, and Joe Leach. Football players Josh Gash and Derrick Smith started last year but Smith missed a lot of but broke his leg and then Brandon Roberts came in but he was all gimped up and never played up to his potential.” A third possibility at point guard is senior Chris Burris, who is out for basketball for the first time. Football players Courtney Smith and Brandon Houze, who saw some spot starting duty last year, will probably be playing the number 3 position. The number 2 guard will like- ly be sophomore Dashawn Young, an Ashbrook transfer who is a hustler and a good shooter. Brothers Gabe and Sam Blair, who transferred from Gaston Day and Hunter Huss, respec- tively, will play inside along with sophomores Quincy Johnson and Ta Tae Roebuck. Chris Jacobs is probably the Mountaineers’ most versatile player, and could play any guard position. Football player Tyler Adams will also see a lot of action. - McDowell said his best out- side shooter, Matt Hardin, broke his hand recently and will prob- ably be out for six weeks. “We have a lot of young guys,” McDowell said. “We don’t have any proven veterans like seniors that can take us under way at YMCA Kings Mountain Family YM- CA is accepting registration for winter youth and industrial basketball. Youth basketball is open to ages 3-6 coed, 7-15 girls, and 7- 18 boys. Registration ends November 16. Industrial basketball is open to adults employed at local businesses. The league will be limited to the first eight teams that register. Registration ends’ down the road yet. But we hope that somewhere along the line somebody is going to step up and say ‘hey, put the team on our back.” | “But as far as a group of kids they give you everything they’ve got every day, and I couldn’t be any prouder of them.” The Mountaineers’ regular season schedule includes non- conference powers such as North Gaston, Shelby, Clover, Hunter Huss and East Gaston. Their conference slate begins + December 21 at Fred T. Foard. “Our schedule is ten times: tougher than what we played last year,” said McDowell. “We . didn’t schedule any cupcakes. You can get a couple of wins but that doesn’t give anything to the team. Playing the toughest com- petition you can find will be more beneficial than a couple of easy wins.” SATURDAY’S SCHEDULE 1 p.m. - Highland Tech vs. + East Rutherford. 2:15 p.m. - Christian Faith vs. Providence Day. 3:30 p.m. - Victory Christian vs. Kings Mountain. 4:45 p.m. - Providence Day vs. REE ha am Rihetnd - Basketball registration Ae Christin vs. Highland Tech. 7:15 p.m. - Christian Faith vs. Kings Mountain. PIGSKIN PICKERS The sports reporters of Republic Gary Stewart HICKORY from page 1B win the game and they played hard until the last minute.” Hickory used a 20-yard punt return by Brian Parson to the KM 37 as a springboard for its only ‘touchdown. Quarterback Cole Kenworthy hooked up with running back Craig Barnette on an 11-yard pass for the touchdown and a 7-0 lead. Kings Mountain's lone touch- down came on a 95-yard drive, with Simmons scoring from five yards out with 9:54 left in the game. Two missed field goals by Hickory that resulted in touch- backs, and two punts that were downed inside the 10 yard line kept the Mountaineers backed up much of the second half.. The final punt, which rolled dead on the one yard line with 1:50 left in the game, set up Hickory’s winning points. On the Mountaineers’ first play, Tate kept the ball on a belly play and Parker sacked him in the end zone for a 9-7 lead. On the free kick, KM successfully executed an onside kick but four straight sideline passes fell to the ground, along with KM's playoff hopes. The victory assures Hickory (7-3) the #2 playoff seed from the SWFH regardless of the out- come of the Tornadoes’ regular season ending game Friday against Fred T. Foard. Todd Hagans Kings Mountain, which drew an open date on the final play- ing date, is packing up its gear until next year. “We would have liked to have gone to the playoffs,” Farquharson said. “We would have liked to have played better .against St. Stephens (20-13 loss a week earlier) and we would have liked to have had a win over Hickory. But from the standpoint of our team and the gtoup of seniors we had and the way the kids came together and worked hard and played hard, you can’t ask for anything better than that.” Farquharson said the Mountaineers will be busy the next several weeks putting away gear and making the tran- sition to other sports, and after Christmas will get back to con- centrating on football. “This is never a fun time,” he said. “We're going to switch gears a little bit and then we're going to sit down and takea look at what we have to do next year. “We'd like to thank all of the fans that have shown their sup- port and stood behind the kids and cheered for them and con- gratulated them when they've done well, and helped hold them up when things didn’t go their way. I think this group ; brought a lot of excitement back to the school and to Friday night football and we're going to use that to build on. Ronald Kiser Deieht Frady Newspapers, Inc. make their picks, for this week's football games. 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