Page 2 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KJNGS MOUNTAIN. N.C. Thursday, March 4. 1965 Kings Mountain Boys Capture First SWC Crown Mountaineezs Down Wilkes Centzal In Opening Tournament Game SS-Sl 14. 54 Qj j place Lincolnton girls of the ! SWC dcfeatetl llic NWC fourili- I place Ilickory sil ls 32-27. In acti.ai Tuesday nigiit, tlie R-S Central girls dcwned the i Taylorsville girls 3.7-33 a n d I Slielby lost to Morgaiiton .32-2.7. ! Coach Lloyd Little’s Shelby I b ays played Valdese at 7:30 1 Wednesday and Clia.se was a- I gainst .Marion at 0:C3. Kings . .Mountain will play the winner of the Shelby.V'aldcse game Friday night at 9:00 while Hickory plays the winner of the Chase-Marion game at 7:.30. hi girls play. Valdese plays Lincolnton taniglit (Thursday i at 7:30 and R-S Central plays Morgaiiton at 9:00. The winners ol those games will meet .Satur day at 7:.30 to decide the playoff champion. Final staiidings in the North western Oonferent't' saw t h e Hickory boys go undefeated with ! a 10-0 conference record. .Marion and Valdese tied for second with identical 11.5 marks and Wilkes Cciitral tied for fourth place with Hudson with a 100 record. In girls play Morganton came out atop the standings with a 12- 12 rcconl. Valdcs(> w as second ; with a 12-1 mark, Tay lorsville (11.71 was third, and Hickory finished the .season in fourth plate with a 10-0 mark. TUKSDA7’’.S BOXK3 Kings Mountain (.77, F Bunkowski 10 : F Cioninger 5 C Ballard 13 r.—Cold 13 ; G Bell H ; Su:s Scoring: None ' W'ilkes C'entral (711 F Jones 17 ’ F Brookshire 7 j C Gant 17 ] G Baldw'in 0 I G Swofford 4 j Sufcs Scoring: Rogers 8 I Halftime Score: 24-23 tKMi i Score By Periods: j Kings -Mtn. 12 12 19 21 i Wilkes Central 9 14 12 16 Mounties Down R-S Central 71-44 The Kings ^lountain Mountain eers won their tenth-in-a-row Friday night to nail down the number one position in the .South west Conference boys’ basketball race. The win was a 71-44 tri umph over R-S Central. SWC CHAMPIONS — Pictured above is the 1965 Southwestern 3-A Conference champions, the Kings Mountain Mountaineers. The Mounties finished one game ahead of second place Chose with a 13-1 conference mark. First row (1 to r) are Ben Grimes, Miclcey Bell, Mike Goforth, Jay Powell, and Scott Cioninger. Second row — Chip Bridges, Philip Russ, Neol Cooper, Steve Go forth, Dermis Bridges, Speedy Ramsey. Third row — Richard ' Gold, Jimmy Cioninger, Larry Burton, Ken Bunkowski, and Mike ' Ballard. era I d S p o r t s Nine Veteran Players Seeking Baseball Berths I Fifteen boys will be seeking berths as either pitchers or catch- ; ers this week when baseball ; Coach Bill Bates yells the first 1 call for spring training. BY GARY STEWART Thus far 36 boys have signed up for diamond duty, with eight of these boys signing up for duty on the pitcher’s mound, the spot where skill will be needed most ly for this year’s team. Candi dates for pitchers are Tommy Black, Seerly Lowery, Bill MulU- nax, Steve Goforth, Tommy Go forth, Danny Sprouse, Rickey First Mountie Conference Win In 20 Years Kings Mountain Mountaineer basketball Coach Don Parker has hit quite a few milestones during his 22 years as the KMHS mentor and now he has added another. The 1964 Mountaineer basketball team is the first KMHS team to win a Southwest Conference basketball However, it is not the only conference crown that! and Darrell W.hetstme. Kings Mountain teams have won under the Coach. Last year’s baseball squad fin- Parker has coached two conference winning teams, ished the season tied for third 1945 and 1965. There's a big 20-year jump there and let’s place in the Southwest Confer- hope that it will not be 20 more before another Moun-ionce standings with a 7-7 record, taineer team cops the championship. j Nine returning lettermen will The 1944 Parker-coached Mountaineer squad would | make up a part of the Mountain- have been a conference winner, also. But ’44 was during i eer team, one that is going into one of those war years when, if you played any games, training with a heavy load on its you scheduled then* as the season progressed. shoulders, that is, to attempt to n A^_j. ' round out a perfect season in Recalls 44 45 Teams As oreat i k.mhs sports. Parker rocails the 1944 and 1945 seasons as two of the| Among the returning lettermen best, but stated that he cannot compare those teams with pitchers, southpaw Seer- Compact Downs Cherryviile 83-50 The Compact High Cobras de feated the Cherryville High Tig ers Monday night at the Com pact gym 83-50. Miles Boyd led the Co’oi a scor ing with 38 points, followed by Pete Adams with 12 and James Hood and Bill Patterson with 10 each. Howard Edwards, J. C. Lit tlejohn, and Lyndon McClain scored 10, 9, and 8 respectively for the losers. ley Lowery and Bill Mullinax. Lowery was the Mountie’s win- ningest pitcher last season as he posted five wins against only two defeats. Mullinax finished the season with a 1-1 mark. Dan ny Sprouse, Steve Goforth, and Tommy Goforth are expected to see much pitching duties. this year’s because of the elapse of time. During those two seasons the Mountaineers won 29 ball game.s and lost only one. The year ’45 was the team’s winningest as it swept through the 15 season games with out a loss. Speaking of the ’45 team the Coach stated: “That team couldn’t be touched. In some games we’d build up a big lead during the first half and then get some P. E. boys out of the stands and let them play the second half.’’ Parker remembcr.s some of the boys that represented KMHS in the years 1944 and 1945 as members of the Mountaineer basketball team: Jim and Houston Black, Jim Herndon. Jim Hullender, and Bob and Robert Neal, all of whom started during one of those two seasons. - Other players mentioned through the year’s were Jimmy Kimmell, Dub Hicks, Jack Ruth and Herman Mau- ney of the 1949 squad, Don Fisher, and Steve Jones. He stopped at the name Steve Jones — “Now that boy was a terrific shot,” said Parker. “Hit from the corner? _ Now, brother, he could,” added the coach. “He was ter-1 shortstop mchard'GoicL pitchers rific — wasn't big either.” I Seerley Lowery and Bill Mulli- RaFpIv MicCAri In '4Q catcher Hubert McGinnis, Dareiy IVIfSSea m **7 j . baseman Pat Murphy, and “We barely missed winning the conference in 1949,” (outfielders Ronnie Rhea and Three members of last year’s SWC All-Conference team make up a big part of the Mountaineer infield, second-baseman Mickey Bell, who was the leading bats man, shortstop Richard Gold, who is a four-year baseball letterman, and third-baseman Pat Murphy. The list of returning lettermen include: second-baseman Mickey Bell, first-baseman Chip Bridges, said Parker. Seeking the facts, I found out that the Mountaineers lost to r’ival Shelby by a close score of 50-49, but Kings Mountain’s Herman Mauney shot a field goal during the closing seconds which went through the hoop but the of ficials said that the final whistle had blown. Parker began his KMHS coaching career in 1943 and since then has “racked-up” victory after victory in making his overall record a winning one. Mountaineer teams, undoubtedly, posted their best records in 1944, 1945, 19-49, and 1965. The 1914 team posted a 14-1 season mark, the Moun- lies were 1.5-0 in ’45. 11-2 in ’49, and 18-1 in ’65 (not includ ing tournament play). '65 Team One Of Best No one can actually say that this year’s team v/as the BE.ST in the history of the school, but one can say that it was “one of the best”. The team suffered only one conference loss during the season — to Chase — and came out atop the standings With an impressive 13-1 record. PLUS, the ’65 team handed Shelby a big 73-43 defeat, which was the largest margin of (liiforenco in the history of the two schools. Parker turned out some “great names” this year also The greats—Richard Gold, Ken Bunkowski, Mike Ballard and Jimmy Cioninger — are the Kimmells, Joneses, and Ruins of two decades later. Claude Pearson. 1965 KMHS BASEBALL ROSTER Compact’s record now stands j at 17-3. They will travel to Sh