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Mountaineers Contender,
Girls Look For Soph Help
Thundoy, Novambn 13. 1980-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALO-Pag* 3A
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Kings Mountain’s Moun
taineers, with four of five
starters returning from last
year’s team, are being regarded
as one of the top contenders in
Southwestern 3-A Conference
basketball play this year.
Veteran C^h John Blalock
says he has been impressed with
the team’s progress in practice,
and expects to field his best team
ever.
The Mountaineers, who were
8-12 a year ago, lost most
valuable player Eric Dixon, but
Blalock returns four inside men
who stand over six feet tall, and
a S-10 point guard who should
rank as one of the best players in
the league.
Blalock’s team is so talented,
he feels, that he has decided to
put Frank Parker, Kings Moun
tain Junior High’s all-time scor
ing king, on the junior varsity
team.
Heading the list of prospects
for the varsity, which will be
seeking its first conference
crown since 1971, is point guard
Carl Smith, a junior who was the
SWC’s leading scorer before be
ing injured last winter.
Other returning starters are
6-3 wingman Terrence Blalock,
6-5 center Gerald Byers and 6-3
forward Demetrius Goode. Todd
Wray, a 6-3 wingman up from
the jayvees, is expected to fill the
fifth starting position.
Others on the team are point
guards Jirtuny Brown, Vince
Roseboro and Bruce Young,
centers Tim Bell and Novelle
Young and wingmen Wayne
Brown and Paul Ingram.
“Practice has been going good
so far,” says Blalock. “We’re
working hard on defense and
everybody looks to be improved.
We ought to have a good season.
We’re still young, with four
juniors in the starting lineup, but
if we play together we’ll have a
good season.”
The Mounties’ strong point
appears to be quickness. “We
ruikoBie fast break good, with
SmlCK handling the ball,* says
Blalock.
Blalock feels the Mounties will
match-up well in size to every
team in the league except R-S
Central, the other club being
regarded as the top contender.
R-S has two inside men at 6-6.
“But I don’t think they’ll be as
quick as they were last year,”
says Blalock. They have two
starters returning from their
state championship team, and
they’re starting five seniws, but 1
think we can play with them.”
Blalock said he is pleased with
the team’s attitude and is looking
for leadership.
“1 Jeel real good about this
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JOHN BLALOCK
team,” he says. “We’re working
hard and really expecting a good
year.”
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Meanwhile, girls coach David
Brinkley is working hard to
develop some young talent, and
he feels the Mountainettes could
be in the thick of the battle by
the end of the season.
“Inexperience will hurt us at
the first of the year,” says the
second-year Mountainette
coach. “We have eight
sophomores but they have a lot
of talent. They will have to help
us out.”
Brinkley returns two full-time
starters from last year, seniors
Sheryl Goode and Diane
Williams. Guards Tammy
Bolton and Bridget Glass started
part-time.
Others on the team include
Angie Bell, Glenda Adams,
Priscilla Odoms, Arjuana Curry,
Elizabeth Floyd, Gloria Camp
bell, Trina Hamrick, Rhonda
Kimble, Angie Adams, Teresa
Freeman and Linda Stowe.
“So far I’ve been real en
couraged,” Brinkley said. “We’ve
had some good practices and I’ve
been encouraged by their at
titude. They pull for qgch other
and are good team players.”
Playing as a team will be one
of the big keys for the Moun
tainettes, who last year had to
depend largely on getting the
baU inside to Williams and
Goode.
“If we get the ball inside, we
can score,” says Brinkley. “1
have a lot of confidence in Diane
and Sheryl. But I have a lot of
confidence in everybody. All the
teams know that if we get the
ball inside, we can score, but
we’re hoping to be able to open it
up and have a balanced attack.”
Defensively, Brinkley says the
Mountainettes will press more
than in the past and run a man
to man defense.
He looks to R-S Central,
North Gaston, Bums and Shelby
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as the teams to beat. All four of
them played sophomores and
juniors last year.
“I believe if we play like we
should, we can be in the thick of
it by the end of the year,” he
says. “Depth will be the biggest
thing at the beginning of the
season.”
The two KMHS teams will get
their season underway next
Monday night, when they travel
to Bessemer City for a scrim
mage. Regular season play
begins on November 24 at West
Charlotte and the first home
game is on November 26 against
West Charlotte. Conference play
begins December 2 against East
Gaston.
KMHS will not field a jayvee
girls team this year, so the jayvee
boys will play preliminaries to
every varsity doubleheader, ex
cept against West Charlotte.
Gene Bumgardner, who
coached the jayvee girls, will
assist Brinkley with the varsity.
Danny McDowell returns as
jayvee boys coach.
THE SCHEDULE
NOVEMBER
24 - at West Charlotte
26 - West Charlotte
DECEMBER
2 - East Gaston
5 - Shelby
9 - at North Gaston
12 - Bums
16 - at Chase
19 - at East Ruth.
JANUARY
2 - R-S Central
3 - at South Point
9 - Crest
12 - at East Gaston
16 - at Shelby
19 - North Gaston
23 - at Burns
26 - Chase
30 - East Ruth.
FEBRUARY
2 - at R-S Central
6 - South Point
9 - at Crest
Photo by Gcnry Stowcot
NEW JUMPER — Kings Mountain High baskstball standout
Diem* Williams works on the new "Jumper" machine at the
KMHS gym cn her parents. Lucille and Paul Willianu. and Bill
Grissom, president of the Booster's Club, look on. The boosters
purchased the machine for $1,200 and it will be used by
basketball and volleyball players to strengthen their legs and
improve their leaping skills.
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