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Pat’s Peckings By NEALE PATRICK Mountaineers Met Toughest First As in baseball where three strikes are ouft, let’s take our three swings at a trio of sports items: Coach Don Parker of the Mountaineers wonders who is responsible for making-out the schedule sequence for his basketball team ... Don knows, of course, that South west teams usually follow the same order each year, but he would like to know why it had to happen that way this year. He’s referring to the fact that his young and untested team was forced to open its league card against the top four teams In the Standings, Liftcolnton, Central, Belmont and Shelby, that being, roughly, the reverse order of the four leading clubs in the circuit . . . The Mountaineers learned their lessons the hard way, early. “How does the schedule maker expect our Sophomores and youngsters to gain the right kind of experience being tossed against the veteran teams the first thing?” Don wants to know. If it be any consolation to the Mountaineer mentor, the order of appearances for the foes probably will chan ge drastically next year When Chase High School comes in to the SWC, replacing Tri-High and ClifMde . . . The new school, you know, already has revised the sequence of opponents for the Mountaineer football team. Then, too, next year figures to find things a bit diff erent, with Shelby and Belmont losing their senior teams and due to be weaker . . . And unless we miss our guess, the Mountaineers will a tougher aggregation when the present sohps and juniors mature into veteran perform ers. Coach Bill Bates team also faced moSt-of-the-best first, the opening league games against perennial power Lincolnton and Central, teams running two-three in the SWC . . . Pace Setter Tri-High came last on the list for the first round . . . And, too, the Mountaineers had their bap tism on the season against Beth ware, merely the best girls team in Cleveland County. Shelby Get Jr. Baseball Jump Shelby, first in the 'State in Legion junior baseball for the past two summers, comes up as the first in this area, at least, to name its coach for this season . . . And who else but Pop Simmons . . . And who handed out the report last summer that the Lattimore school master was planning to retire from the Legion baseball coaching ranks? Pop not only returns, but has his same helper from last year, Bill Metcalfe from Caroleen Tri-High, Who pro bably will be accompanied to Shelby again this summer by his ace southpaw pitcher, Buddy Phillips . . . The big hurler and Junior Green, you recall, were the centers of controversy last season when they accompanied their high school mentor to Shelby, instead of playing with their home county entry. Will this turn out to be another summer of hassles and bickerings over ball players sought by two or more Legion posts? ... Or Will it be a nice, quiet season with the action on the field instead of behind closed doors? . .. Shelby Legion officials, in fact, already have cast their bread upon the waters that “Releases” of players from one team to another are all well-and-good in keeping the boys satisfied ... Well, that’s a new twist. Shelby also plans to seek a national rule change re garding teams “picking-up” players for playoff games . . . This, obviously traces back to the Regional tournament last summer when Shelby shuttered when it learned that Memphis had added bona-fide ball players after the Mem phis city Legion race . . . Shelby folks had the mistaken idea that their boys were playing against a Memphis all star team. Back to the area coaching business, Ken Alexander reports in the Gastonia Gazette that Bill Wilhelm, the Clemson College coach, definitely will not be back at the helm of the Gastonia juniors. Be brave through this winter weather . . . summer can’t be far away when Legion baseball begins creeping into the sports talk. Last Second Heroics In Big 4 If you know your rule book, you know that college basketball games are scheduled for 40 minutes duration . . . But the teams could dispense with the first 39 minutes and 50 seconds and come out with the same results around the Big Four of the Ole North State this winter. No less than five games involving the Big Four teams have been settled in the last ten seconds of the game . . . And to show the further futility of playing the first nine tenths of the games, two overtime battles also have seen last second heroics. State and Duke have been making a habit of settling the issues in the final seconds . . . The Wblfpack beat Maryland, 55-53, on Lou Pucillo’s Shot in the last two sec onds, and beat Clemson, 56-54, on Dan Englehardt’s bucket in the final eight seconds. The Blue Devils have won two games and lost one with the grand total of 11 seconds remaining on the clock . . . Duke lost to Clemson, 56-55, on a goal by Walt Gibbons with seven seconds to play . . . And the Blue Devils rever sed the proseedure, beating Wake Forest, 58-57, on a goal by John Frye with three seconds remaining .. . And How ard Hurt scored three foul Shots (two personals and one technical) in the final second as Duke beat Louisville, 67 64 in the Dixie Classic. As if overtimes were not strain enough, Big Four rivals have stretched the victory tighter with more last second business . . . State beat Wake Forest in a double overtime after Pucillo tied it with three seconds to play in the first extra period .. . And Lee Shaffer sank a goal in the last 20 seconds and Harvey Salz hit two foul tosses with a second left in Carolina’s 72-68 battle with State K.M. With Late Rany Student-Faculty Cage Tilts Set Friday Students and faculty at Cen tral High School will swap the "Three R’s” for two-podnt field goals in the annual varsity - (teachers basketball game at Centred High Gym Friday night at 7 o’clock. The Mountaineer varsity boys wiU play the men teach ers to be coached by W. F. Powell, and the Junior High School girls will meet the wo men teachers coached by Mrs. Betty Gamble. The annual student-faculty cage game Which always is one of the highlights for local basketball fans is sponsored by the local unit of the NCEA, with all proceeds from the game going to that unit Ad mission will be 50 cents for a dults and 30 cents for stu dents. Varsity teams oopped both the games with the teachers last year, the boys l)y 43-40 and the girls 29-24. Mr. Powell has rounded up the coaches and teachers for his men’s team, which will in clude Don Parker, Fred With ers, John Gamble, Bill Bates, Lawson Brown, Bill George, Ben Goforth, Bob Kennedy, Carl McWhirter, William Cleere, Tom Poston and John Lutz. Mrs. Gamble also has a len gthy list of teachers planning to play against the junior high lassies. They include: Mrs. Wanza Davis, Mrs. Ann Withers, Mrs. GayneUe Ladl, Mrs. J. Patterson, Mrs. Bill Ba tes, Miss Elizabeth Collette, Miss Patricia Hayes, Miss Mar garet Mclver, Mrs. Juanita Lo gan, Mrs. Doris Eaker, Miss Jackie Blanton, Mrs. Marjorie Hall, and Miss Sara Biggers. Five teachers also will lead the faculty cheering section, the cheer leaders being Miss Marie Lineberger, Miss Jean ette Scoggins, Mrs. Josephine Weir, Miss Kitty Lou Sutton, and Mrs. Margaret PowelL Fred Plonk, chairman of the school board, and Bruce Thor bum, president of the Central PTA, will officiate the games. Bethware Scores Two Wins Over Grover Gagers Beth ware nabbed a couple of victories over Grover Tuesday might, the league-leading girls winning by a 57-35 score and the Buccaneers scoring, a 58-43 win. The win was the 12th straight in the Cleveland County Confer - encve for Mrs. Ellen Powell’s pace-setters which were led Tuesday night by Barbara Gam ble with 23 points and Paye Bo lin with 20. Gloria Huffstetler tallied 24 for Grover. Four of the five starters hit in the double-digits for the Beth ware boys, led by Jerry Wright’s 15 and Dean Burton’s 14. Wen dell White led Grover with 12. Bethware will be host to Falls ton Friday and will go to Polk ville next Tuesday. Grover plays at Kings Moun tain Thursday night and travels to Waco next Tuesday. Bathware (57) F F. Bolin 20 F N. Hamrick 14 F Gamble 23 G Cranford G S. Falls G J. Hamrick GIRLS Grover (35) Huffstetler 24 Batchelor 7 Goforth 4 Stewart Mayhew Wilson Subs: Bethware — M. Hamrick, Herr don, R. Falls, Panther. P. Bolin, Smitt McSwain. Grover — Wright. Halftime score: Bethware 30, Grover Z BOYS Grover (43) Huffstetler 4 White 12 Neal 8 Wattersdn S Crocker 8 Carroll, Biddix 4, Dto Bethware (58) F Wright 15 F Edwards 12 C Anthony 11 G Webster 2 G Burton 14 Subs: Bethware ver. Grover — C. Green 8, Mullinax 1. Halftime score: Bethware 21, Grover 20, Reporter: Kim Cashion. Gun Club Defeats Guard With Rifle The Universal Gun Club won its second straight match from the Kings Mountain National Guard in 22-calibre indoor rifle competition here last Wednes day night. The Gun Club posted a score of 485 and team average of 97, while the Guard had a 475 sco re and a 95 team average. Frank Sikes and Jesse Price fired scores of 98 for the Gun Club, with T. W. Bryant scoring 97, and Floyd Willis and Fain Hambilght 96 each for the win ners. M/Sgt. Preston Holt andM/Sgt. Willis Clark posted scores of 97 each to lead the Guard. Oapt. Humes Houston and Cpl. Bill Morgan shot scores of 94 each, and Cpl. Floyd Peterson a 93. Gamble And Wright Pace Bethware Wins Bethware basketball teams put two more victories on their victory chart Friday night, de feating Bel wood in two games, the girls by 58-47 and the boys by 47-32. Barbara Gamble led the Beth ware girls with 27 points, with Norma Hamrick adding 15 and Faye Bolin 14. Julia Beam paced Bel wood with 29. Jerry Wright with 15 and Dean Burton’s 12 led the Buccaneers, and Ken Willis tallied 11 for Belwood. MOUNTAINEER NEWCOMERS — Two newcomers to Kings Moun tain are lending a hand to the Mountaineer basketball team this winter, Tammy Watson and Bobby Goodson, left to right. Watson moved here from Maiden and Goodson from Belmont. The rangy Goodson has been a regular all season for the Mountaineers, but missed a recent game due to a badly sprained ankle. Watson also was a starter in one game this season. (Herald Photo by Pennington Studio) Four Of Mountaineer Iron Men' Score In Double-Digits In Loss The Mountaineers found their offense up and their defenses down in the 59-49 loss to Forest City here last Friday night The 49 points was the top fig ure by the Mountaineers in the first ten games of the season, but it proved in vain as Forest City matched the biggest score again. 1 st Kings Mountain this year, Bel. mont also hitting 59. Thus, the Mountaineers counted their six th league loss in seven starts. Forest City’s defending SWC champion girls made it a clean sweep with a 47-39 win in the opener. Five “iron men” went all the way for the Mountaineers in'the loss, and four hit in the double digits in scoring for the best-bal anced and top scoring attack of the season for Coach Don Park er’s outfit. Soph Chip Thorbum led with 16 points, trailed by Jimmy Blanton with 11, and Don Fisher and James Robbs with 10 each. Making a battle of it all the way, the Mountaineers led on two different occasions and tied the score three times during the second half. The Mountaineers never trailed by more than four or five points throughout the game with the ten-point spread at the end being the biggest margin between the teams for the contest. Tailing by 33-28 at halftime, the Mountaineers rallied for sev en straight points to take the lead at 35-33 on Fisher’s shot, and regained the lead again mo K. M. Cagers Meet Grover Tonight, Resume SWC Action Next Tuesday Mountaineer basketball teams take a mid-season break from Southwest Conference action Thursday night, meeting county rival Grover here, then pitch-into the last half of the league chase next Tuesday at Ldncolnton. The game with Grover has been carded for Thursday night so ithat the anuual student-fac ulty game can be played on Fri day. The varsity boys team will meet the men teachers and coa ches and the junior higli girls will play the women teachers in the always-poplar affair at Cen tral ■ High Gym. Kings Mountain's pair of clubs completed the first half of their Southwest Conference season here Tuesday night against Car oleen Tri-high, and will face the same eight loop foes following Thursday’s tussle with Grover. The Mountaineers split their first double-header with Coach Preston Holt’s Grover teams in December, the K. M. girls losing by 31-28, with the local boys winning their first of the season in that one, 30-27. A brother-sister team o<f Jerry Huffstetler and Gloria Huffctet ler are the big point-makers for the two Grover teams. The Gro ver bays are one of the top div ision teams in the Cleveland County race. The girls game Thursday night will begin at the usual starting time here of 7 o’clock, with the boys contest carded a bout 8:15. Mountaineer clubs will be seeking revenge for a double licking when they resume Con ference action on Tuesday night at Lincolmton. The Line lassies won ithe first meeting here, 49 28, and the Wolves won by a 45 32 score. Although Coach Jack Kiser has j termed this a rebuilding season for his always strong girls team, the Wolverettes are in second place in the Southwest chase, trailing only undefeated Tri High. The Lincolnton boys are . in fourth place in the SWC ! standings. merits later by 37-35 on Thor bum’s bucket. But Cool Springs pulled away after that to lead at the end of three periods by 44-39 and boosted the edge in the last quarter. Kings Mountain was consist ent, to say the least, in field goals, scoring five in each quar ter. The Mountaineers hit 20 of 55 field goal attempts for the game, a 36-percent average. Forest City bucketed 27 for 61 attempts, a 44-percent figure. Both teams were sizzling with their shooting in the first quar ter, K. M. hitting five for ten, and F. C. connecting on nine for 17. Forest City also bettered the 50-percent mark in the last quar ter, with six for 11 field at tempts. Ralph Haynes, the top hold over from last year’s fine Forest City club, led his club with 25 points, having 19 at halftime. Judy Medlin scored 16 and Pat Gladden 16 as the Mountainettes battled Forest City’s lassies right down to the final horn. As in the boys game, the final eight pdint difference was the biggest spread between the two teams in the game. GIRLS KINGS MOUNTAIN (39) Forwards FG Medlin 6 Weir 1 Gladden 7 TOTALS 14 Guards — Goodson, Pearson, FT 9 0 2 11 TP 21 2 16 39 Yates, C. Plonk, B. Lynn. FOREST CITY (47) Forwards FG FT TP MOrrow Harrill Johnson Medford Scruggs TOTALS 1 12 2 i 19 0 7 1 0 0 9 2 31 5 2 2 47 Guards — Pabresz, Godfrey, Matheny. Score by periods: Kings ML 12 13 8 Forest City 16 16 10 6—39 8—47 BOYS KINGS MOUNTAIN (49) FG FT PF TP Fisher Thorbum Robbs Wright Blanton TOTALS 4 5 5 1 5 2-3 f) 6-8 4 0-0 0-0 1-8 2 1 1 20 9-19 8 10 16 10 2 11 49 FOREST Champion Haynes Marshall Waters B. Jones . Wells Holmes Medford Cunningham TOTALS CITY (59) FG FT PF TP 5 12 0 3 2 0 5 0 0 1-1 1-2 0-2 0-0 2-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-2 1 1 3 2 2 2 3 0 1 27 5-11 14 11 25 0 6 G 0 10 0 1 Score by periods: Kings ML 14 14 11 10—49 Forest City 18 15 11 15—59 Judy MedlinAnd Chip Thorbum Lead Scoring Judy Medlin and Chip Thor bum are leading the scoring as the Mountaineers reach the half way mark on their Soutrwest Conference basketball seasons. Judy is on her way toward leading the Kings Mountain girls in scoring for the second straight year, having tallied 239 points, an average of 21.7 per game. Shee scored 416 points in leading the Mountainettes last winter. Chip, one of the two sopho more starters for the boys team, has moved into the lead in the boys scoring race after Don Fish er held the top mark during the early games. Thorbum has scor ed 90 points and Fisher has 86. A total of 11 players have scor ed for the Mountaineers, five for the Mountainettes. Scoring totals for Kings Moun tain players to date: GIRLS Player Judy Medlin Pat Gladden Marlene Weir Becky Ormand Peggy Black FG 88 34 31 9 2 FT TP 63 239 12 80 16 78 6 24 0 4 BOYS Player Chip Thorbum Don Fisher J aimes Robbs Bobby Goodson Jerry Wright Tommy Thom as Jimmy Blanton Punch Parker Perry Champion Tommy Watson Mike Ware FG 34 36 21 12 18 12 11 3 * 1 0 FT TP 22 90 14 11 18 4 9 2 7 1 0 2 86 53 42 40 33 24 13 9 2 2 Ross Scores 16 In Jr. High Win •Husky Eddie Ross went on the biggest scoring spree of the sea son to lead the Kings Mountain Junior High team to a 33-29 vic tory over Grover’s Jayvees here last Thursday night. Eddie tossed in 16 points as he scored nearly half the Little Mountaineers total in their four th victory of the season. He sco red eight field goals for his to tal. Dean Green of Grover was top point-maker for the contest, with 19. The Grover girls won the op ener, 51-41, as Linda Eaker tall ied 21 for the winners and Mar ian Plonk again was the high scorer for Kings Mountain with 20. GIRLS Kings Mountain (41) P M. Plonk 20 F Morrison 9 P P. Plonk 9 G Yarborough G Lynn G Arrowood Subs: Kings Mt. — Maunty 3, Grover — Ledford 10,. Spangler 2, terson, Ayres. Grover (52) Eaker 21 Huffsteteler 11 Allen 8 Green Putnam Rollins Lennon. Wat BOYS Kings Mountain (33) F Ross 16 F Houser 4 C Dixon 1 G Houston 2 G Smith 5 Grover (29) Little 2 Gold 2 Green 19 Harry 2 Robinson 1 Subs: Kings Mt. — Harris 5, Ramseur. Grover — Heafner, Collins, Turner 3. Halftime score: Kings Mt. 16, Grover 11. Nine Players Score In Grover Victory Grover’s boys rolled to one of their easiest wins of the year, beating Fallston, 54-32, last Fri day night, with Billy Crocker and Jerry Huffstetler hitting 12 points each to lead. Nine Grover players entered the scoring column. Fallston girls won the opener, 58-44, as Wright scored 31 for the winners. Gloria Huffstetler paced Grover with 19. Mountaineers Fad OnBothSouthwes The final four minutes of the games proved the downfall for both Mountaineer basketball teams here Tuesday , night a gainst the visiting Caroleen Tri High outfits. Both local teams went into the final portion of the last quar ters either tied for the lead or in good position to take com mand of the game. But it was Tri-High which put ont he stre tch drives to win, the girls by 56. 36 and the boys by 57-43. The final scores in both ga mes were misleading in the bat tles which went on at Central High Gym. Kings Mountain’s girls stayed within six or eight points of the loop-leading Tri-High lassies all the way, with the score midway in the last period standing at 41-34 in favor of the visitors. But in the final four minutes, Caro leen hooped 15 points while the Mountalnettes were gamering only two. Tri-High boys also broke (the game wide open in the second contest. The score was tied at 40-all with four minutes to go after the two teams had see-saw ed back and forth in the lead all evening. The game was tied at 11-all at the end of the first quarter, and 23-all at halftime. Tri-High led 38-35 at the end of three stanzas, but the Mountain eers, pulled even art 40-all mid way the period. The winners, however, turned on several fast break baskets, to assume the lead and win by the 14-point margin. Chip Thorburn with 17 and Don isher with 15 were the only two Mountaineers consistent in the scoring column, and they were (the only locals to obtain field goals in the second half. Thorburn tossed in most of his buckets on jump shots from the comer against the Tri-High zone defense, and his sharp-shooting which produced ten points at halftime was the main reason the Mountaineers were all-even at the rest period. The Mountaineers tossed in five field goals in each of the first three periods, appearing to be on the way toward matching the fealt of five fielders in each period which they accomplished against Forest City last Friday night. But the local lads could add only two field goals in the last quarter as Tri-High pulled ahead. For the game. Kings Moun tain hit 17 of 53 field goal at tempts, a 32 p-.cent accuracy. Caroleeri hit 22 for 57, a 39-per cent figure. A couple of visitors took top scoring honors, Barbara Webb with 28 in the girls game, and lanky Willis Shew with 21 in the boys contest. Judy Medlin’s 17 led the K. M. girls, the same figure Thorburn posted for the boys. Tri-High Victory 1st Here In 16 Years The Mountaineer’s 57-43 loss to Tri-High here Tuesday night was a “dubious first” for Coach Don Parker’s club. ft was the first time in the 16 years that Parker has been coaching here that the Moun taineers have lost to Tri-High in Central Gym. "We have lost some games up at Caroleen,” the local mentor recalled, “But this is (the first time that Tri-High has come down here and beat en us in our own place." Loss to Cliliside Only Second In 31 Gaines 0! Coach Parhei Era Kings Mountain’s loss to CMffside last week was more than a mere defeat on the bas ketball ledger ... It was a his tory-making defeat, for those who like history blended with their basketball. Cliffside’s 48-42 win last Thursday night was only the second time in fifteen and a half years that coach Eton Par ker has been cage mentor here that the 01 iff-Dwellers have beaten the Mountaineers on the court. The only other time in the 31 games was on Feb. 5, 1954, also at Cliffside, when the homestanders won by 50-47. Earlier that year, the Moun taineers had trounced Cliffside by a 53-37 score here. “Those scores," observes coach Parker, “Are good ex amples of how much that home court means to Cliffside. Even in all those years that we have beaten Cliffside in both games, the scores have been close up there, and we run off and leave them down l here.” Actually, it was the princi pal of the Cliffside school who reminded Parker that last week’s win was only the sec ond in 31 games between the two schools since Parker be came coach here. “The principal told me after the game that I shouldn’t feel too badly about the deafeat,” Parker related, "That it was only the second time in 31 ga mes that his school had beaten Kings Mountain. And when I thought about it, I realized he was right.” Parker labels that 1954 Cliff, side team which holds the on ly win over Kings Mountain as one of the best personnel-wise in Southwest Conference his. tory. The team members indu ed John Ramsey, Junior Fowl er, Bill Scruggs, Steve Humph, ries, and Buz Btggerstaff, sev eral of whom starred later at Gardner-Webb. The Mountaineer lineup which lost to Cliffside five years ago Included Ronnie Layton, George Harris, Ollie Harris, Mearl Valentine, Mil ton Hope, Dan McCarter, and Richard George. The 32nd and final meeting In history between Kings Mountain and Cliffside High basketball teams will be play, ed here on Feb. 20. Next year, Cliffside will consolidate with Carol eon and Harris £0 form*® new Rutherford County school, Chase High. le In Stretch t Loop Games C GIRLS KINGS MOUNTAIN (36) Forwards FG FT TP Medlin 7 3 IT W«tr - 4 Gladden 5 Lewis 0 TOTALS 16 Guards — Goodson, Pearson, Yates, B. Lynn. 0 1 0 4 S 11 0 36 TRI HIGH (SlB) Forwards FG FT TP Campfield 6 0 12 Webb 12 Waters 4 White 0 Lynch 0 TOTALS 26 Guards — Philbeck, Gibson, Greenlee, Burgess, Wheeler, Hill. Score by periods: Kings Mt 5 14 12 5—36 Tri High 18 8 13 17—56 4 0 0 0 4 28 8 0 0 56 BOYS KINGS MOUNTAIN (43) FG FT PF TP 6 3-5 1 15 Fisher Thorbum Blanton Robbs Wright Thomas Goodson Parker TOTAL 1 8 0 2 0 1 0 0 17 1-1 0-1 2-2 1-1 0-0 1-2 1-4 3 2 3 0 0 2 0 17 0 6 1 I) 9-14 11 1 43 Francis Greene Shew Taylor Allen Butler Davidson TOTALS TRI HIGH (57) FG FT PF TP 6 2 8 5-6 0-2 2 2-3 3 0 4-4 3 3 6 2-4 1 0 0-0 0 0 0-0 0 23 13-19 12 Score by periods: Kings Mt. 11 12 12 8—43 Tri High 11 12 15 19—57 12 6 21 4 14 0 0 57 local Boxen Lose In Finals Two Kings Mountain boxers were victims of knockouts in the finals of (the Gastonia Boys Club Golden Gloves tournament last Saturday night. Charles Bolin, winner in the Mt. Holly Gloves event ithe week before, suffered a third round TKO at the hands of John Lacey of Charlotte in the Novice light weight finals. Lacey won the tournament knockout trophy for scoring the most and quick kayos in the event Bolin w.Py his opening match in the tour ney, with a TKO over Rod God frey of Gaffney, S. C. Dean Waters of Kings Moun tain was victim of the quickest kayo of the tournament, being floored after 12 seconds of the first round by Carroll Lynn of Cherryville in the novice light heavyweight finals. Waters won by forfeit from Charles Graham of Gaffney in the semi-finals. Several other Kings Mountain battlers bowed out of the bat tling earlier in the three-day toumamnt. They included: Jim Grant in the mosquitoweight, Curt Floyd in the novice feather weight, William Jones In the op en welterweight, and Charles Bums in novice welterweight di vision. John Alexander of Kings Mountain won by TKO over Randy Ramsey in the third round of a novice featherweight bout in an early round. Houser Leads Jr. High Win Kings Mountain’s Junior ilH boys copped their fifth win of the season and their fourth in a row, defeating Clover, 37-32, here Monday. Tommy Houser with 12 points led the Little Mountaineers who held a 22-11 edge at halftime and battled off a full-court press in the second half to win. Mike Dixon scored nine for the locals. The junior high boys go to Rock Hill for a game Thursday night, and both local teams will be host to Shelby Junior high teams here Monday night. King* Mountain (37) F Harris 4 BOYS Clover (32) Stanton 3 F Houser 12 Mundav 4 C Dixon 9 Strobe 4 G E. Smith 2 Gibbs 11 G Houston 2 S. Stanton 6 Subs: Kings Mt. — Whlalnant 2, Ram seur 2. Stewart 2, C. Smith. Clover — Gordon, D. Stanton 4. Halftime score: Kings Mt. — 22, Clover Southwest Cagers Open Second Hall Southwest Conference basket ball teams open the second round of play Friday night with four games scheduled. Loop-leader Shelby plays host to Belmont, and the rest of^kc card shows Caroleen at Ch:B ville, Forest City at Cliffside.WM Lincoln ton at R. S. CentraL Kings Mountain plays its • game of the second round i *t Tuesday at Lincolnton. O f' games that night are: Ch< y ville at Fewest City, Cliffsid- at Caroleen, and Shelby at Si S. Central . |
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