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cfi 4, 19(1 tY- V^ilbuni J \V. n.>i( Cl<>\fr, S. ^ou!o 2. . . City ■ s| is, Rj\ toutc 3. ( t>ur,^'fr. U: *ss. iimmiti, ](l 307 KJim Si| Rod 'nI Thursday, March 4, 1971 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Page 3 Mounties Baseball Teaai Opens Tuesday At Dallas R-S Central Girls Edge Mountainettes In Tourney V'vV’i-s > ■ ■ X Vv, I v>*c , -vA'. •'- ."i 1 -e‘»* «. 0;i.-Ti' ,i| iri< k. Jl* 3 1. Rt. 1. C>. 514 WirM-. 413 Frai Rt. 1, Uiii.s I 2, Bu\ . -j. 0. .Sholby 1 Fultoii Dr., It. 1. City >ate 2, V i:, loy, P.O. H X «lo\'. Hi. Box 211. r; ■> i. Ron to 2 EIlUf)n S'. »utc 1. n* -. idle. Box^^ on. Rout4‘ W. Vi<nv S:. OVER the auta.ni ;o far the (!•• but the > r ntral, a • and \vr- 1 pages in - he air lin» ' d to bo *r bu.sino>.>, >yoe. whi ‘i has g »rf hoo faolorir.s >rtalion in » planes, nn and finally. No facilirio.'i weather f": ticks. ; to bo doini! laswer Is a c'ommuter. Boston Globe Mountainettes Finish Season With 9-12 Mask Sally Watson drt)»i>ixKi in two free throws with no time ro- maining Saturday afternoon to give R-S Central a 3.'7-.33 vititory (A’or Kings .Mountain’s Mountain- ottes in the ojK^ning round of the Southwstom Conference basket- j ball tournaiment being held at 1 Soutsh Point gym in Belmont. I I The loss ended KM’s season. ■ Tlic Mounitainettos of Cwich ! Elaine Fronobergor finished with ' a 9-'l2 overall record. j I Kings Mountain fell behind by I 1 11-3 in the fir.st ix'riod but put 14 ix>int>on the hoard in the see I ond quarter to trail by only five DoinLs, 22-17, at intermission. I Behind the scoring of Debwah Croc-kett, who swred 13 points, and Carolyn Mitchem. who add ed 10, the Mountainettes caught the Liidy Hillloppt'rs in the third period. The score was tied five times and the load changed hands four limes before W^atson gave R-?,' Central the victory. \ j Donna Daniel .scored 10 points , j to pace the winners. Wat'son had; only three po-ints for the game, j ^ but her fast two were the one.*! 7 < W/ / JBf* ' - ^%3srA mmi Ws • -*■ - • • ^ ... v< . “4, • TOf>: MOUNTAINEER SENIORS — Geeper Howard, left, and Chuck Carpenter, a pair of seniors, will see ctetion at infield positions os well as on the pitcher's mound for Kings Mountain High's baseball team this spring. The Mountaineers open season play next Tuesday at Dallas. ALLGONFERENCE — Junior forward Carolyn Mitchem was the only member of either Kings Mountain High basketixill squad to be named to the 1970 71 AU-Southwestern Conference squad. Carolyn Mitchem Only Cager On All-League Ea.st 1 play, t At Junior forward Carolyn Mitch- ^ i-m was the only member of cith er Kings Mountain High basket ball team to be named lo the 197D-71 All-Southwestern Confer ence team. Oarclyn was one of 21 players to rot'eiVi' All Conference -recogni- t-on. A total of 14 girls and 10 ooys were honored. Mitchem was a key fatter in KM’s JXltl.s finishing sixth in the 3WC with an 8-10 conference rec ord and 9-12 overall mark. She finished second to sophomort* I^oborah Cmckett in the team fscoring race. Chase and Cro.s4 were the only teams not r<'pres<'nt<Hi on the girls’ all-league team. Kings Mountain, Chase. R-S Central an<l Dincolnton were not represented on the boy.*;’ team. David Thompson of Crest and Paulefetc Abt'rnalhy of Lincolnton were named players of the year. Cmeh of the year in the boys di vision was ikl Peeler of Cre-it. Fr4‘d King of Cherryville was named top coach in the g:rls di- vdsion. ■Peeler edged Ctinnie Hamrick cil Rist Rutherford and Bill Hinson of Cherr>^ille for the coa<ihing honor while King was chosen over Jerry Bridges of Burns and Earl Ungafeldt of South Point. In player of the year balloting. Thompson was chosen over Rick Chat>man of East and Julian Rob erts of Burns. Abernathy edged Dmna Dinicl otf R-S Central and Karen Putnam of Cherry\iUe. The complete all-conference lust follows: GIRLS TEAM FORWARDS — Karen Putnam. Cherryville; Donna Daniel. H-S Central; Lynn Bettis. Burns: June Biggerstaff. East; Carolyn Mitch- <nn. Kings Mountain; Gail M’hitc- side. R-S Central. ROVERS — Paulette Abernathy. Lincolnton; Amanda Wiiitaker, Burn.\ GUARDS — Patricia Barnes, R-S Central: Shar»m Byrd, R-S Cen tral; Wanda Lovelace. P’ast; Syl via Ruff, Burns; Phyllis Ross. Shelby; Rebecca Thompson, binc- . olntoti. boys team FORWAIUJS — Davwl Thnimp- . .son. Cre.st: RUk Chapman. Ea.st; Jerry Hunt. Crest; Keith Harris, Cherrvville. i rt:NTERS — Floyd Bridgt's. , Shelhy: Larry Hunt. Crest. GUAIiDS — Dennis Tate, Cher ly'ville; Ekiug Surratt. Crest; Juli an Roberts. Burns; William Han- ‘ non. South Point. Baseball Schedule 1971 BASEBALL SCHEDULE 1 April 2 SOUTHWESTERN CONFERENCE ' SheliTy at Belmont ! Burns at Cha.';e Cherryville at RutherPordton Kings Mtn. at E. Rulhf. March 19 ' B<dmonl at Lincolnton 4:00 iBurns at Kings Mountain 4:00 Chase at Rutherfordtoii 4:00 Shelby at Cherryville 4:(X) Cre.sl at East Rullierford 4:00 that counted. R-S Central lost out to Rutherford’ in semi-finals , . , Monday. The finals were set for Wednesday rright with the South I Paint girls meeting East Ruther- I ford and the Cre-st boys taking on I CherryviHe. I ; Kings Mountain (33)—Crockett • 13, Cornwell 4, Mitchem 10, Neis- ler 3. Cash 2, Goins 1. R-S Central — Daniel 10, Bvrd j 1. Whiteside 6. Hill 4, Edgerton 2, ■ Watson 3, Mayes 9. I ! ! Gardner-Webb Tennis Team Has I Question Marks ■ BOILING SPRINGS. N. C.,—"MV ; have some question miurks,” Jim ' Taylor. Tennis Coach at Oirdner- ! Webb C'olU'ge s*nd when announc- 1 ing the 1971 Bulldog net schedule. ' “.Although wo have lettermen returning to fill the first four .^>t.s. the fifth and .sixth positions arc still up for grabs. How well we do (XHild d(‘tx‘nd on how con- .si.-tant our first four players per form and if we are able to gel some help at the fifth and sixth position.*;,'' ho fyilid The Bulldogs will face a ruggcxl 20 game st*hedule and Taylor is somewhat optimistic about the chances of improving on last year’s record of 4-8. I ! "Our kids are very hard werk- ' ers and if we are able to fill the fifth and sixth .sjiot.-;, then we could have a better than average sca.son," Taylor .said. Four .seniors, Larry Smith. Den mark, S. C.: Barry Naney, Ashe ville; Billy Walters, Shelby; and Tommy Bell. Suffolk. Va.. are ex pected to earry most of the bur den. Smith, Walters, and Ec-ll have all bee nnumber one on the Bulldog net learns during the past and at the pre.-ent time Naney i.s occupying that slot Rattling it out for the fifth and sixth p(>sitions will bo: Richard Granger. Columbia, S. C.; Charles ^1 Nixon, Charlotte Jo^> Mickey. ■ M’inston-Salem: Debbie M^ilson, Charle.stcn. M^ Va.; Janet Vaughn, Shelhv: and Rickard Jos.'en of Mt llollv.' Hussey’s Team Has Winning Mark, Barnes Leads Club In Scoring Bobby Hus.sey, .Appalachian mentor, isn’t happy with having Hu.ssoy’s ASL^ team rwn 1\ State’s freshman basketball coach; a winndng season, even if it completed a 9-1 season. If any- and former Kings Mountain High wasn’t expected. : one had told Hussey at the first M 0B& I March 19 Belmont at iRutherfordton 4:00 Shelby at Burns 4:00 Cha.se at Crest 4:(K) April 8 Cherryville at King Mtn. 4:00 Lincolnton at E. Rutherford 4:00 April 6 Kings Min. at Belmont Rutherfonltcm at Burns Cherryville at Chase Lincolnton at Cre.st E. Rutherford at Shelby Cre.st at Cheny'ville 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:(X) 4:00 7:30 Morch 23 Crest at Bt'lmont 4:lo Burns at Cherryville 4:00 E. Rurtmrford iU Cha.se 4:00 Kings Mountain at Shelby 4:00 RulhePfonilon at Lincolnton 4:00 March 26 Chase at Ik'Lmont 4:15 Burns at Crest 4:(X) Cherryville at E. Rutherford 4:(X' Rutherfordton at Kings Mtn. 4:(K» Lincolnton at Shelby 4:00 in March 30 Belmont at Cherryx llle 4:00 East Rutherford at Biirn.s 4:(K) Chase at Linc-olnton 4:00 CTest at Kin^^.s Mountain 4:00 Shelby at Rutherfordton 4:00 April 9 B<*lmont at Burns 4:00 Cha.*!e at Shelby 4:00 I E. Rutherford at Ruthf. 4:(X1 I Ijincolnlon at Kings Mtn. 4:00 AprU 13 1 Burns a:t Lincolnton 4:00 ' Cha.se at Kings Mtn. 4:(K) Gherry\ille at Rutherfordton 1:00 Shelby at Crest 4:00 April 14 ’ Belmont at East Rutherford 4:00- AprU 16 I Lincolnton at Belmont 4:15 Kings Mountain at Burns 4:00 ! Rutherfordton at Chase 7:30 ' C'herryx’.ille at Shelby 4:00 East Rutherford at Crest 4.00 ' (Continuf'd On PfiUi S('v^n) Men s League Tourney Begins Monday Kight Two game.s will open the an nual Inclu.stri'al League ba.skotball tournament Monday night at the Community Center. At 7 p.m., Imperial will take on Craftspun and at 8 o'clock, TjO^>n vvi'll meet the KM Merchant. Duplex and Plonk Oil, the 1f^) tw'o finKiers in n'gular season play, draw opening round bye's. Duplex will meet the winner of the Imperial-Craft-spun game Wexlno^day at 7 o’clock and I’lonk Oil will iplay the winner of the Tryon • Merchiants game at 8 o’clock. The winners of Wednesday’s "amt's w'ill meet Thursday at 7 p.m. for the tournament chaimfi> ionship. i Admis.sion for all tournament I actiiin will Ih.* 50 cenls. GOOD YEAR AT APPALACHIAN — Bob Hussey, left, Appalachian freshman basketball coach, and Charles Barnes, the team's leading scorer, hod banner years for the Little Mountaineers this winter. The ASU frosh finished with a 9-7 record with Barnes averaging 22.8 points per game. Barnes had a high game of 37 points against Wilkes Community College. Vincent’s Union 76 Regains Bowling Lead Vincenit’s Union 70 has movtxi j back into fir.^l plaK’o in the men'.s! bowling league wliile Drews Tax Serxdce continues to .show the! way in the ladit's* loop. Vincent’s won three games I from first half champ Dilling Keating Monday to move ahead erf Ranny Blanton by one game. Mull Ram.*9ey's 364 5x4 and Rod Hous er’s 136 line led the winners. Jolin Dilling’.s 125 line and Ron nie Culbert.son's 334 .set were high marks for the losers. Quality Sandwicli won four games from Plonk Oil as Raiviy Culbert.-^on rolled a 127 line and 355 series. Dwight Reeves s('i»ix'd a 125 line and 330 set for the losers. Albt'Tt Brackett moved into fifth plaw by winning three gk^mes erff Ranny Blanton. Brackett (Ctmtinuf d On Scrf iiV Soitbali Meeting Set For Friday I A meeting will be htdd Friday j at 7 p.m. at the Community Cen- ! t(T to plan for the summer men's i imiustri:il .softball league. ' Roy IVar.son, recreation direel- I or, .said that anyone intereslt'd in entiM'ing the h'ague .sliould he represented at tlie nu'cting. (’('iiversation.s }K*r jx'rson con- limit's as an important mca.sure ' (rf llie fX'netration of telephones , into the soi-ial and hu.siness life of a country. The United States 174.5 pt'r person >. Canada (711)t. Swt'den ((i.alD. and Iceland (646) h'ad in this category. of the year that tlie Little .Moun taineers would have a winning season, he would have said they j Wire CT-:xzy. “At the beginning of the sea son. nobody though wed bt' that good." .say.s Hu.sst'V, “but it still disa])pcint<‘d me.’’ Hu.ssey’s club was small and not ve y talented. He liad only four sehalar.-hiji players and on(* of them didn't live up to exp<‘e- tatians. an<l 'vva.s be .Mem o'at by a non-.scholarship i)erformer. “We had .some good games a- gainst gco(i teams." says Hu-s<‘y. “1 f(‘cl like -vx-e got belter towar<i the end of tin* .se:i.son. T!iai al ways m lUe.s you feel good." One of Hu.ssey’s fornu’r hig-h school products, CharUs iBad News! Earne-;. paced th(' Ajsxs in scoring with a 22.8 average. “He had two or three* real out standing games." sail Hussey. “His worst game was the* .se i-on opener against Wake Foro.-l wlien he got into foul trouble*. i)lay<*d very little and seorc'd six points.” The m*xt ni.’ht oui. liovvevc’r. Barnes guniK'd i:i 3l» p* i-.’s ‘n a losing eae.se at Virginia 1r h. Appala. hian’s m .r. .'I'.s-ivi* win ;vi.*! in i1< se:ison finale* in B one. a lOti-SS vie lory <■ er the* same Virginia Te'ch outfit. "They had a ger'd team," said Ilu.S'Ty. “so il made* us f(*<'l goori to come from b<*hind an.i win like* that" Earne*s’ ba-kcouit mate. .Stan Davis, (jf Pittsburgh, score’d 50 paints in ih.it e inte-st.. .Ilie high- e'S't prodmtion mark e: the .«'a- sen for a Mounlaine*e*r. "Th(\v played llarne's iire'-tty tight after what he did against lliem be’fore." .^aid Ilus-ey. “But Davis eame through I<'r u*. Barnes pLiyed a go.id game. He .seem'd 1 I p( in!.- and hail a 1 -A C'f as'lsts. The* v\a\ Davi-; was hitting. Charle'.s didn’t ne'e'd to s-hool a whole* lot." Bairnes’ lop game', seoring-wise'. (’ame in a vK-le>ry over Wilkes Community Coll<*ge*. He se-e»re;l 37 point.-*. "We fevl like Charle's di<l on out.sianding jo'a." adeled Hu.--.se'y. “He was by far tlie m >sl e-onsi.st- ent man we luivl and lu*'s ge>ing to have* to be* re'o)gnize*d next ye*ar when lie* jejins tlu* varsity. The* varsity has be'th its guar.ls baek ’ eBol-iby T-Ue* and Tim I*arke*r> but 1 Barne'.s, and Davis, ten), will have to he looke'd at." Husa'y’s future* is un'evrlain. lle*’s se'heduled to finish weirk on his majsti*:’s ele*gre*e in May and! \viie’lh('-r lie (ie.'ide's to slay at ; .•\SU or go el.s('wlu*re remain^^ta lx* seen. •Tm looking «for a jvrfiL ju.sl like a lot e>f othe'.r pe'eiple." he* sjiys. “But t.iu*rt'’s mMlung defin ite yet. I've fillt'd eiul se>me' ap- plieatiems anel have talke*d 1o .se>nie iveiple* but I’ve not re'ally had an offe'r." Hussi*y says, in eerlain phase's, he* like's eidle'ge e-«)a<*liing IxMte'r i Twenty-Five i Players Seek Starting Berth Kings Mountain High's ba.«eball te*am o;)cn.s its 1970 schedule Tuesday afternoon, playing at Diillas in a non-confcrence con test. The same two clubs will play a re'match in Kings Mountain the following Friday. The Mountain eers open Southwestern Confer ence play on Tuesday, March 16. Barry Gibson, in his first year o.s head coach of the Alountain- cers foil )win-g a four-year stint at Central Junior High, has not de cided on a .starting lineup. Gihsim said he will play as many boys ^ possible and will probably u-^' at least three pitch ers. The probable hurlers are Dan ny Hartsoe. Ricliy Hord and Keith Parker. The only other two pitch ers on the staff are .seniors Chuck Carpenter and Geeper Howard, who got late .starts because of When they're not on the mound, basketball. Carpenter and Howard will prob ably be at third ba.so and short slop, rospecUvely. Parker, who . playa'd for Gibson at Central, will also see some duty at shortstop , and pxssibly in the outfield. Tijc Mountaineers, 25 strong, are mostly yvmng. Gibson has 12 0 sophomores, seven juniors and only .six senior.s on the squad. Kings Mountain finished 9-11 , and fourth in the 3WC last sea son under Bob Hu.'^scy. I Gibson said competition is keen ; at m;>st i»sitions. He said his de fense lias shoxvn lapses but he’s ' hK-en .surprised with his club’s hit- I ling ability. I “Of c*ou.'*so, we have been hit- j ting hatting practice pitchers,” said Gioson. “but the boj-s are 1 hitting the ball much better than I I thought they would. .And. what j impresses me most about their ' hitting is that they’re hitting line drives." Probably the be.st competition ! i.s for the first base job, where . [our players are rated about (‘ven. They are Grafton Withers, wiio started there last year, Jack King, Jerome Cash and Bill W’at- son. At second base, Gary Kiser, a part-time starter la.st year, has returned but he is being pushed by sophomore Robbie Moore, who also played for Gibson at Central. David Putnam is pu.shing How ard for the third base job. Car penter and Parker will probably alternate at shortstop. I:i the outfield, Tim EchoLs end Kart.s:)e return but they’re being pushed by Bill Loflin. Parker, and others*. Tue.-day’s rain forced the Moun taineers inside. “Wc got a Utile bit done." said Gibson. “You can’t work too much on .vour hitting inside but you can work on game situa- tun.s." Gibson said his pitchers aren't tiirowing at full speed. “They're throwing about three- quarters," he said. “We thought we’d save it until Friday or Mon day. Everybody’s arm is all right now. I hope nobody develops arm trouble." Ef?caas(' of their late start, Gib- .son said CariX’iiter and Howard probably would not pitch Tuesday but will be at other positions. Dallas, which won the Gaston County 2-.\ Conference last spring and participated in the state playofLs. ha.s several returnees from that club. Top prosiH'cts at Dallas are pitcher Jimmy Thornburg, catch er Gary Rhyne and third base- man Steve Edison. Rhyne, who played teener ball in Kings Moun- tain, and Edison both hit well over .3(Xi la.st year. Cage Standings YOUTH LEAGL’E Teams UipiK'rs Buckeyi's Tryon Tigers Tar IleeLs Bucks Cougars Wildcats Mountaineers Won Lost 0 than high .school. T feel like you have just as closi' a relntion.ship with your players as you do in high school.” he said. “The main problem you run into in (olloge is at the be- I ginning of the year. It takes a ■ while 10 get the players thinking I like y.Hi do, btx'au.^o they come j f!x>m difh'rcnt .schools and their 1 coiiches had diffeix'tit philoso- 1 phies. But. other than tliat, lol- ; leg^' etiaching and high school i aren't any different. Now that the season is over. IIu.s.sey's taking in high school and junior eolloge tournaments, trying to reeruit Sv>mo prospects for next si'ason. “We're Icxiking mainly for big men." he said. “lH*eau.-k' that’s what we don’t have*. We’re .st'out- ing most of North Candina and ‘ the e:istern part of Tonnesstn? and I (Ctmtinm'd On Pinjc ^cvi'n)
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