Thursday, February 8, 1968
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• Kings Mountain Rolls Past Cherry ville For 14th Win
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Herald
S po r t s
By JOE CORNWELL
Herald Sports Editor
Same Old Song OpfpJll’
OE CORNWELL Adams again paced the Moun W B f M
let tS*\Ar4a rtAnrc t t h oo Hrk Hi irvirt. 1 ^^k^k^^
'Busted Lip" Tells Story
Why son, what happened to your lip? Well, M6m, it’s, - v, u n
like this. As I was leaving the Belmont gym tonight a few; tlrth'quaner per"ormance;
boys thought they were going to beat up on me, well, yoUjgp^pj.g, he
know me, I didn t let them do it. I got the “busted lip when (j^ove in for th
they jumped me. I hit one boy and the other one hit me
while I had my back turned to him, and that’s how I got
my lip messed up. If it hadn’t of been for Jed I could have
gotten hurt pretty bad.
By JOE CORNWELL Adams again paced the Moun
Herald Sports Editor taineers in the third, as he dump
It was the same old song, only cd in seven more points to his
this time it was the l-lth verse, night’s total. In that period of
as the Kings .Mountain Moun- play the .Mountaineers outscored
taineers defeated Cherryville this Cherryvillo 15-9. Roger Bock le<l
past Tuesday. 71-44. George the Ironmen with six.
Adams once again led the Moun- Going into the fourth the score
taineers in scoring as he dumped was 44 to 31 Kings .Mountain,
in 28 points. Adams connected on Then the Mountie.s rallied, and
11 field goals and six foul shots left Cherryville behind, scoring
; for his game leading total. 27 markers to Cherry\ille’s 13. In
i Steve Spencer was second in that period senior guard Spencer
i scoring. Spencer tallied 17 mark- and Adams performed for the
i ers on six field goals and five Mountaineer fans. Spencer tossr’d'
foul shots. The quick guard scor- in ten points and Adams added
nine. I
Belmont,
Kings Mountain
drove in for the points.
Ken Mltchem was third in
scoring for the Mountaineers,
dumping in 12, on six field
goals. Larry Giles led Cherryville
i with 14 tallies. Mitehem
Were there any others involved in the fight, she asked?; in the first quarter the Moun- Finger
Well mother, I can’t tell you how many because I didn’t 'taineers jumped out in front 16 Adams
have time to count. But I can assure you that there were to nine. The scoring was well cole
more than just a few. Did anyone get into trouble? No, the rounded for the conference lead- spencer
police just told us to get in the car and head for Kings^*^;
Mountain, and boy, did we do that.
The win was the 14th straight ^ |
for the Mountaineers.
Box Scores
(711
G FG TP PF FTM ;
Ever Since Last Year
as all scored well. Big Eaker
Adams led the scoring with five Cherryville
points. floyer. Po*-
In the second, the Mounties; Giles
tied the Ironmen at 13 all. Giles Beck
led Cherryville with nine of the Graws
The preceding story may not be true, but 1 can say that 13. Adams, as usual led
many incidents like this occured last F'riday night when the j Mountaineers with se'^n- ^ Bumgardner
Kings Mountain Mountaineers traveled to Belmont to Play j ^oyntam l™dV led by sevfn Young
the Raiders. | 29-22.
Since last year, when the Mountaineers beat the Raid- H|a| i
ers in a very close game, the two schools have been arch lW|^Q|| MA||10C1
rivals. The trouble all started when, a group of Belmont
boys chased the Kings Mountain High School Activity Bus Pmif |Bc
out of Belmont. ! rWkl 1%W
Coacli Blaine Froneb'rger’s
gilts defeated Belmont this past
\\(‘ek h\ a score of 32-29. Linda
Cliildei s paced the winning Moun
lainetli's over the Raiders b>
.S(-orin,g 12 points. Ctiilders was
followed liy .Sharon Gold who had
ten. Howe\er. game scoring hon
ors went to .Shelia Brice who had
Hi tallies.
Belmoni led Kings Mountain
after the fii-sl, si.\ to four. But
in the second the .Mountainetles
outscored the Bi'lmont girls ten
to four to gain the lead. When
rest time came the Mountainettos
led by four points 11 l lili.
In the third the Mountainettes
eould only score six to Ik'lmont's
11 and tliey lost the lead by one
point.
Kings Mountain rallied in the
fourth and came out with tin*
veiy clo.se, winning margin,
GIRL.S
Box Scores
The Belmont boys stoned the bus and many tried to Bf|raha11 Ppct
enter it. Well Belmont paid for the glas.ses that were brok- ■»*•*'»•**•
en out of the bus and this seemed to put an end to the trou
ble. You noticed I said it seemed to have put an end to the
tijouble, but it didn’t.
Watch Out Mr. Rabbit
This year the Kings Mountain fans began to do the
same kind of thing. Except they didn’t go to the extremes
of stoning the bus.
Carl Wilson was named to suc
ceed Dick Shaney as athletic of
ficer for the Post 155 Legion
Junior baseball team.
It's the second term for Wilson,
who served as head of the KM
Junior program
Mounties Ambush
Crest. 75>55
In the first meeting of the two teams this year. Bel
mont placed a rabbit in the center of the Kings Moun
tain basketball court. The rabbit wasn’t bothering a thing,
but just for the sake of being noticed or just trying to cause
troulile, a Kings Mountain student walked to the center of
the court, picked up the rabbit, and placed it on the Bel
mont lieneh. Well of course the Belmont student body didn’t
take it too lightly. i
Another student, this time from the Belmont side, took
the rabbit off the bench, and placed it back in the center i
of the basketball court. As taking times about usually goe.s,:
a Kings Mountain fan raced to the center of the court and
once again removed the rabbit.
WILSON
son, "but rnfi
glad to get back in it. I've ap
pointed Dave Delevie as my as
sistant.
“We don’t have another meet-
It was once again victory forij
the Kings Mountain Mountain
eers, as they dumped the Crest
Chargers, 75-55 last week. Coach ]
Bob Hussey's lads had a hard
time with the Chargers in the
first period and at the end of
that period the score was tied at ■
17 all.
The Mountaineers stageti a
late rally in the last of the third
from 1963 thru and all through the fourth to pick
'66. Announce- up the win. George Adams led
ment of Wil- the Mountaineers with 21 points
son's appoint- ),e was followed by Ken Mitehem
mont was made yyjtt, is. Otis Cole added 13 mark
by Commandei ers to the Mountie cause.
Carl Wiesener. i , ,
Darry Ledbetter led the Charg-
"1 had a ica- ers with 16 points, he was follow-
son for drop- ed by Thomas MeSwain with 15.
ping out of the
program last
year,” said Wil-;
Kings .Mountain
Player. Pos.
Gold
Childers
K. Plonk
Reynolds
Turner
.4tkinson
D. Plonk
Finger
Totals
, Belmont
(321
C FG TP PF FTM
Linda Childers (above) scored
12 points, as she led the Kings
Mountain Mountainettes over
Belmont.
Mountainettes
Stop Ciest
’ I jj
12 s
Vickie Turner (leit) and Debbie Plonk (right) have ployed a
large part in the Mountainette's success this season. Plonk is o
regular starter and is currently doing a great job on defense tor
the Lady Mounties. Turner could be considered the team's num
ber six lady.
I Player, Poi..
; Bri(-c
Brccland
Lorance
Beaty S.
' HlKlgCS
1 Ward
i 3’otals
' S('or<> hv
K. .M.
Bi'lmont
The Kings .Mountain .Mountain-
32 15 1.3 defeated the Crest Charg-
' ' el .s last Wednesday, 40-34. Sharon
FG IP PF FTM Gold and Linda Childers combin-
I i-d scoring abilities, scoring 18
and 1.3 points respectively. .
Pi'iiods
7 29 16 11
2 3 1 0 Tot.
10 6 12 32
4 U S 22
Referee, Piercy
L’mpire, Crunkleton
Scorer, Sherry Bell
'I'he Mountainettes were down
by two points going into the sec
ond period of play. However, they
outs(?or<‘d their opponents in the
second. 10-7 to gain the lead.
.■\s the teams headed for the
dnvssing looms at the half the
I score was Kings Mountain 16,
Crest 15.
Sports Shorts
Box Scores
Kings Mountain
Player
Mitehem
Spencer
(751
One interesting thing might he
the fact, that the Kings Moun
tain High School Cagers played
a total of 10 games last week.
ing until the la.st Monday of this
Then the Belmont student body began to gel furious.; month, but we’ll get with the Adams
A group of boys stood up out of their seats and began th^ probably name Fmger
dare the King.s Mtauntain boys to remove the rabbit when; league Hambright
they placed it m the center of the court for a third time. ! same set up," con- Barnes
Man, did names start flying then. Most of them I am unued Wilson. "They’re having Crest
unable to print. From one side of the gym to the other thr
yells and screams of profanity hearld.
Seeing that trouble was getting started, a Belmont
teacher removed the rabbit from the center of the court
for good.
Player
Lail
Thomas
Ledbetter
Wilson
What could of happened, if the teacher had not remov
ed the rabbit, would have been very distui’bing to the good
name that the Kings Mountain High School Athletic pro
gram has.
Well, so much for the first game. Lets get down to the
action. As it usually goes Kings Mountain had to return
the call and play the second game of the season in Belmont.
a Hall of Fame Banquet in Char
lotte this month and I'm sure that
will be brought up then.”
During Wilson’s first term as
Post 155 Athletic Officer, toa.ms
here never had a losing season, Hamrick
going to the semi-finals of the Cameron
area playotLs each year. Woods
Buster Ledford served as head Thomps
txjach under Wilson in '63, John
Gold in '64 and ’65 and Bob Hus
sey in ’66.
TP Their won lost record was 9-1.
l.S The only loss coming to the Lit
11 tic .Mountainettes at the hands
of Chase.
George Adams of the Kings
Mountain Mountaineers is cur
rently leading the conference in
scoring. He is a\eraging clo.se to
25 points per game.
Mounties
Cherryville
The two lo;(ms tietl scores in
the third as tiKw both scored 13.
and the Mountainettes held their
one point lead.
I In the fourth period of plfiy,
the Mountainetles broke away
1 from the Lady Chargers apd
I scored 11 points to Ct‘St’s six.
I Cathy Washburn led CiV.st with
12 markers. She was follo-e^bV 1
Dianne Borders and Gayla'
erv both having eight.
Kings Mountain's
Sharon Gold, had a
.Monday night tx-ton
super star
dream las
■ Tuesdays
Duke Blue Devils Face Big Tests
In Two Of Nation s 'Big Cities
DURHA.M
Well fortunately for the .Moun
tainetles. her dream didn't come
ti ue. as the Lady .Mounties down
'd Cherryville 24-16.
Duke embarks on Garden and in Chicago the Duke- j Cold, along witli Kathy I’lonk
game. Gold dr(>amed that the
Kings Mountain Mountainetles
would not score against Cherry-
ville, and that the Mountainettes
would lose the game.
1 Kathy Plonk and Nancy Key-
nolds round out the scoring
the Mountainettes. Plonk scoX^
se\'en an<l Reynolds toss((d in two.
1 Box Scores
Kings Mountain
Playsr. Pos-
(40>i
five-day road trip this week tangle with .Notre Dame at Chi • tossed
Gold
Childers
Plonk
Reynolds
Crest
Little Mounties
The game was once again a close one. The Mountain-, ¥ acc
eers had to work a little harder for the win, but they still MOvCipC lllloS
came out on top. ; The Kings .Mountain Little
What could have started the trouble this past F'l'Wsy m"'thc^'wire* this^pasr*week!*'as
was the fact that the officials were on their "high horses”, they picked up their second
calling about everything just the opposite from whal the straight win. the .Mountaineers
Kings Mountain fans thought they should be. After seeing outscored Cherryville 55-,54 in a
two games officiated the way that these two were, I can hard fought battle,
honestly say that my temper was up in the air. . Steve Gladden led the winning
; Mounties, dumping in 19 points.
Don't Blame The Olficials Geeper Howard striped the nets
; scoring 13. Gladden’s total also
I do not blame the fights on the officials. The credit tor gained game scoring honors.,
starting the fights should be equally divided. As I have I" ihe quarter the Little
heard it, one fracas started when a Kings Mountain boy outscored Cherry-
started to run his mouth, saying that he was .going to do,
this and that to someone from Belmont and another boy; points'^'* ^ ^ ° i Taylorsville
from Belmont saying that he was going to beat a Kings; seVond tiie Little iron-1
Mountain boy up. men outscored the .Mounties 11-10 yjarion
the Mountaineers once again fell
to the hands of the Ironmen 25-
21. but the Kings Mountain lads
still gaintMl tile win by a narrow
one point margin.
that will take the Blue Devils to
two of the nation's biggest cities,
New York anti Chicago.
In New 5’ork the Blue
find themselves playing
ern Illinois in the final
header at old .Madison
Devils
South-
douhlc-
Square
Standings
■ago .Stadiutn.
Duke will lx- trying to aveng(
a loss to -Southern Illinois las
season at the same site in Hx
(|uarterfinals of the .National In
vitational Tournament.
riio Saluki.s, 1p<1 hy Wall Fra
/icr, who has since graduated
turned back the Dukes, 72(1.3
G FG TF PF
7 4 IS 3
5 3 13 4
2 3 7 1
10 2 2
(3411
G FG TP PF FT1»I
2 4 8 4
10 2 1
113 1
0 112
6 0 12 2
.3 2 8 4
GIRLS
NORTHWESTERN CONFERENCE
GIRLS
N. PIEDMONT CONFERENCE
Hussey s Lads
Win Again
, Morganton
Hickory
Valdese
I Marion
' Marion
W'ilkes Central
; Watauga
i Newton-Conover
Hud.son
Lenoir
won
9
Lost
0
3
3
3
3
3
4
7
8
9
9 ,
North Stanly
Davie County
Central David.son
Nnrili Davidson
North Iredell
Mooresvillc
South Iredell
North Rowan
West Rowan
East Rowan
BOYS
Asa whole the_Belmont and the Kings Mountain High ' Mountie
School student bodies are well behaved young men and'3^(1
the Mountaineers in that
women. The trouble makers are people like the two boys 1 period scoring six of the ten.
that I have already mentioned. They are a minority, but! Kings Mountain went into the
they affect it as a w'hole. They are the ones that give the dressing room, at the halt with
school the bad reputations, they are the ones causing all a nine point lead,
the damage to the school buildings, they are the ones who; Cherryville rallied in the third,
cause a innocent fan to be hurt, they are the ones that *bey (?ut the Mountaineer mar-
cause the school to have to pay for windows that are brok-;
en by students who just want to get back at the other|
school for the acts that the minority of delinquients have,
committed. i
In the last quarter of play
Are Belmont, Kings Mountain In Running?
Kings Mountain
Number One
The Kings Mountain Mountain
eers curmntly lead the South
western Conference with a 11-0| Burns
mark. The Mountaineers arc fol-; Crest
Morganton
Hickory
Watauga
Wilkes Central
Newton - Conover
Lenoir
Valdese
Hudson
Taylorsville
GIRLS
SOUTHWESTERN CONFERENCE
Won Lost
Won
9
9
7
5
5
6
5
2
1
0
I-ost
0
0
3
4
4
5
5
8
10
10
BOYS
N. PIEDMONT CONFERENCE
Central Davidson
West Rowan
North Stanly
Davie County
North Rowan
North Iredell
North Davidson
-Mooresville
South Iredell
East Rowan
Won
9
8
7
7
7
5
3
3
1
0
Lost
1
2
in game Icariing totals of piayet. Pos.
nine point.s each. Dihhic Brown DiAnnc Borders
led Cherryville with tour mark- Lynn Bridves
' .Sherry Jones
Thivatt
In the first quarter the Moun- cathy Washburn
tainettes outscored tite Ironladys, Ciayla Lowery
111-3. riiey carri(Ki tlieii se\<-n
point lead into tlie .second but
«... could only score three in titat
onlv a couple nights after thel "f P'^y, and the si-ore at
Blue Devils lost an emotion-pack-; i'd<‘' mission was Kings .Mountain
ed Allanlie Coast Conlerenee '-1 Chiuryville live. .
championship game to North
Carolina.
This siMSoii .Southern Illinois
is rebuilding and sported a 16-6
record prior to meeting Kansas
.Slate Saturday. They have played
only one t(‘am in common witi
Duke. Thai's .Maryland, a teair
they beat in overtime, 73-72, at
College Hark.
Duke, of course, whipixxl the . ..... ..
I'erps by .32 at College Paik. The| rhe win wa.s the s»>venth terminatic'm that tliey h.ave had
Blue De\ils lake them on again straight for the l.ady .Mountie.s. jf, the past the Mountaineers sal-
Tuesday night. . They are currently in third place,\aged the win. I'heir 14th of the
Dick arrcll, who averaged 15 in the conference standings. .season,
points per .uanie last si’a.son w hen BoX ScOYGS Mitehem a n d George
(2111
G FG TP PF FTM led the
In the third Cherryville out-
scoKsl the .Mountainettes three to
one. But the two point ad\,incc
toward the .Moimlaineite's total
was not enough.
At the end of the fourth Kin.gs
Mountain had gaiinxi back llic
points they had previously given
llic Cherryville liissics, as they
outscored them 10-8.
The Kings Mountain Mountain-
eeis had to work for every point)
they got. Inil as the old song goes,
the Mountaineers came out on top,
5(i.47. over lielmont la.st Friday ]
nighr.
Coach Boh Husse.v's lads proh-j
ably played tlieir worst .game of
the year, in Belmont that Friday.
The Mountaineers were cold in
evei.v respi'cl. but with the de-
Soulhern Illinois won the .Nil ...
..., . .1 . . . . Kings Mounlam
tille, IS the teams top n'eturnee.
Last .vc'ar's game in tlu' NIT c,old
first Ixdween Duke
3
3
5
7
7
8
J1
■ was the
Southern Illinois in
The Duke-.\otre Dame game will
be onl.v the fourth matchup of
llic two.
'I'lio Blue Devils have won al
three prev ious games against tlie
Irish, including last season's al
Cltarlotie, 77-65. Duke built a
solid early lead hut had to liang
and t'liipiois
basketball, plonk, Kathy
K('ynt4lds
'I'ntals
OuTiyville
Player, Pot.
Brown
Walls
Eaker
Barger
24 12
.4(lanis along with Steve Spencer ,
Mountie ;dtai k. Mitehem |
1 and .\danis both dumped in 14
3; points for the Mountaineers.
0 Spencer addl'd 13 to the Mountie
3 j cau.se.
9 M the end of the first period of
Chase
Shelby
Kings Mountain
East Rutherford
Rutherfordton
You know, there are several awards pre.sented to the
teams who win the eonferenee. But there is one award that
can be presented to the team in the last position in the con- lowed by Lincolnton and Shelby Belmont
feronce standings or it can be presented to the first place both sporting 7-3 records. Lincolnton
team, the second, third, fourth, fifth or any other team that In the Northwestern Confer- cherryville
is in the conference. However this trophy can not be won ence, .Marion and Morganton are
by the team'alone. It takes the cooperation of every stu- currently tied for the league
dent and teacher of the school.
10
10
9
6
5
3
3
2
2
1
1
1
2
4
5
6
7
7
8
10
GIRLS
Statesville
Kannapolis
Asheboro
Concord
South Rowan
Albemarle
Thomasville
1 on late
i umph.
in the game for the tl'i- Beam 1
Central Defeats
tied for
lead. Both teams are sporting per
fect 9-0 records.
BOYS
Kings Mountain
Lincolnton
Shelby
BOYS
I am speaking of the SPORTSMANSHIP TROPHY ^ girls division, in the Cherryville
awarded to the team and student body who has the con-
duct record deserving it. The school that can Hikejlefeat, "marks.
Southwestern Conferenee, Chase
are in the lead with
, . . ■ , . . , T-^ Kings Mountain is
along With winning, and winning along with deleat. Do you ^ 9.2 record.
think King.s Mountain and Belmoni arc in the running for Tiie following standings are Chase
this award? i tlirough February 2, 1968: East RutherfurU
Crest
Belmont
Burns
Rutherfordton
II
7
7
7
5
4
3
3
2
I
Kannapolis
.■\lb('marlu
Lexington
Statesville
Concord
Soutli Rowan
Salisbury
Thomasville
i Aslieboro
7
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
1
1
2
2
3
3
6
6
8
9
In 1966 Duke beat Notre Dame
at Gieenslioro. 95-73. and the
vear before that tlio Bine Devils
'won out at Chicago, lOI-SS.
The .Salukis arc 11-6 on (lie
season and arc playing without
All-Amcric.i Wall Fra/icr, named
llic NIT Most Valu.iblc Hla.vci
last .year. Dick Garri'lt leads the
.Salukis' attack which tcalurcs a
d( liberate, possession type game
mixed with a tough individual
man for man dcR'ii.sc.
Lincoln Academy
The Central Junior High S( hool
Patriots defeated Lincoln of Bes
senior City this past wet'k (76 21i.
Vernon Cnx'kcr led Central
with 19 points. Eddie Wcidmond
led l.iiicoln with Id.
IIDMECOMI.NI 1: Saturday's
fourlli m('cling willi Nolii' Dame
will be "Homccoroing" for five
liiicmlH’rs of the Blue Devil vac-
I ^CuiitiiiKcU un PiUjc V
BARBECUE SET
North selKxd P T.\ will .-pon
.SOI a barbeeuc February 16tl!
witli serving from 5 until 8 p.m.
in the school eateloria. Plate.-'
will he $1.,35 for adults and 75
. cuts for childroii. I’locci'Os will
support P-TA projects duiiii '.
tlie year.
|)lay the Mountaineers led by five
points. 16-11, Rick Finger led the
scoring in that pc'iiod of play
.siMi-ing five points. Mitehem add- j
ed four.
In the second the Mountaineers |
once again outscori'd their oppo
nents. The Mounties tossed in 13 I
to Belmont’s three. Adams !(»d the |
Mountie scoring oolunin in tli.at
period, as he dumped in five.
.\t intcrmi.ssion the scon- was j
Kings Mountain 29. Belmont 17.
Belmont surprised the .Moun-1
taineers in the third hy oiitseoring
them 11 1(1 six. Kings Mountain (
gained the cold lumd in that peri-
ixl of pla.v.
The fourth quarter provided the I
basketb.ill fans with a little'more
I'xciiement. Both the Raiders and |
the' MouiitaiiK'ors siMied an even 1
number of points. Titev tic^-»>| J9l
all.
.8leve Wohelm led the Raideis
with HI points for the night.
(Cuntiniiii/ on Poye V