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1972 n St., pland Thursday, jJanuary 13, 1972 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Eagi 3 , Oltiy 01 S. lerry- Ave., PiCKl- Gold Mid- PitU‘ I- St., Gantt T I. City Ih A iiilrt’s- (psy- g to 'W )r. K. ngton ndin^ lly ill !ty id lelvoi;. Inera- les at VOl(»p- shows 1 par- Icaily lly as s hav- chil- ulner- y, are 1, and he ill- child 1. •hieve- found a rents ysical- handi- 10 per were HTnal” n re- ring a t i t * i t ■ ‘, 11 s con- ficant nimun- nenial it fig- York a lion, ity re- n <100 renia, it are fnsti- ooor- ?r for e twin 1. Dav- . were from netery 1 offi* ednes- died David died three I HERALD SPORTS By GARY STEWART KM Cagers Host Shelby Friday, R-S Tuesday Adams Top Scorei Gardner-Webb’s George AUams, a native of Kings Mountain, is the leading scorer in the National Associa tion of Intercollegiate Athletics. Through 10 games, the 6-5 All-American is averaging 35.8 points per game and is among the highest ranked small college players in several other statistics. Adams is fourth in the nation in field goal percent age, having hit 140 of 226 field goal attenipts for an aver age of .560. The Bulldogs as a team ai'e also ranked highly. Coach Eddie Holbrook s cagers are leading the nation in scoring, having tallied 1,154 points in the first 10 games for a 115.4 average. Gardner-Wobb is fourth in team field goal percent age, having made 468 of 865 field goal attempts lor an average of .512. The Bulldogs also lead the nation in win ning margins by oulscoring their opponcato by 20.4 points per game. Tbe Bulldogs have registered 32 wins in 13 outings against NAIA competition and Holbrook’s s(iuad also cap tured a victory over the Australian Olympic team. Adams, who has been scouted by the pros in most ol Gardner-Webbs games, has had only a few bad nights. His high game was against Mars Hill in the opening round of the Gardner-Wobb Holiday Tournament, when he scor ed 46 points despite sitting out the final 10 minutes of action. His low game was against Allen University last Thursday when ho fouled out tw o minutes into the second half with only 13 iioinls. Freshmen Rule Last week the National Collegiate Athletic Associa tion declared freshmen eligible to participale in football and basketball, if his coach feels he is ready. (Freshmen have been eligible to participate in baseball the past five years.) The NCAA rule, however, pertains only to post-season play. Each individual conference will decide whether they will be allowed to compete during the regular season. The now rule will probably bring a mixed reaction in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is perennially one of the nation’s strongest basketball leagues. University of North Carolina head coach, Dean Smith, said Sunday on his Tar Heel basketball show that UNC is against allowing freshmen to participate. He said athletes just coming out of high school need time to adjust to col lege lite, especially academic-wise. North Carolina State, no doubt, will be in favor of the freshmen rule. In fact, the Wolfpack has at least one freshman, David Thompson of Crest, who could be a vars ity standout right now. Young Thompson is averaging over 40 points per game for the Slate freshman team and hit hot shooting hand w'ould be a big boost to Norman Sloan’s varsity program. The rule, of course, does not go into force until next August, thus, Thompson is not affected by it. But Sloan has come up with North Carolina’s top prep player the jiast two years (Tommy Burleson and Thompson) and if he could do that again, he’d be set next year. Kings Mountain High cagers will be at home for their next two Southwe.dtern Conference tcsl.s, hosting county rival Shelby Friday and R-S Central Tuesday. The Mountainettes of Coach Blaine Fronebergor, who are off to one of their finest starts in years, will be slight favorites in both contests but the Mountain eers of Allen Dixon will be decid od underdo-gs. The girls will carry a 5-1 con ferenee record and 7-1 overall mark into Friday’s game while the boy.5 are 2*4 in the conference and 2-8 overall. Coach Froneberger’s lassies, who have won five straight games since dropping their conference openl^^ to unbeaten South Point of Belmont, will be trying to stTcngihen their hold on second plate. The Mountainettes’ 5-1 league mark puts them one game ahead of Shelby and Burns, who are 4-2. Shelby was tied with the Mountainettes until Tuesday night, when it lost to Burns. The Shelby boys sport a 4-2 con ference mark and are tied with defending cham-pion Crest for third place. South Point and E^aat Rutherford continue to share the top spp-t with unbeaten 6-0 marks. The two apr<?ar to be head<*d for a Tuesday show down at South Point. The R-S Central teams aren’t having one of their better year.« but the Rutherforli County cagers are always tough on the local squads. The Hilltoppers sport a break even 3-3 r<-*cord in corforence i>lay and one of their viclorio.s was over Shelby. Th(‘ HUltoppc.'rs have bc(‘n the only t(*am to .stay on the court with Fast this y<‘ar, dropping a slim 54-48 decision to the Cavaliers in the East Tipoff Tournament. The R-S Central girls are 2-4 in league play, having beaten Cha.se and Linoolnton. The Mountainettes likely will have revenge in their minds Tuesday night, as the R-S Central girls knocked them out otf the conference tournament with a one-point decision last March. The local cagers will close out first round play next Friday night at Chase and will begin second half action the following Tuesday at South Point. KM Girls Take Over Second Place Second Half LEE IN CLOSE ^ Debbie Lee (40) fires from close remge for Kings Mountain's girls in their 47-37 win over Burns here Fri day. Lee scored 11 points, her season's high, to help hand the defending SWC co-champs their second loss of the year. (Photo by I. G. Alexander). layvees Defeat Burns By 78-52, Host Undefeated Shelby Thursday Kings Mountain’s junior var sity basketball squad romped to its fifth victory in seven out ing here last Thursday, defeating tEurns by a 78-52 score. Coach John Blalock’s charges jumped off to a 16-9 first quartet lead and were never headed. Burns (52)—iDavis 6, 'Howell 3, Martin 12, Poole 18, Hendricks 9, Mitchell 2, Bratton 1. Several Duke basketball fans have been disappointed with the showing of the Blue Devils this cage season but Coach Bucky Waters feels his charges are going to give a much better effort during the second half of their AtX season. The Blue Devils thus far are 5-5 overall and 0-1 in the conference. They evened their record last week in the Charlotte Coliseum 'by trouncing Virginia Tech 83-73. A lot of Duke fans, particularly the students at the Durham University, would like to see Waters got the a.x but it should be pointed out that injuries played a key role in Duke’s early season misfortunes. One of the Blue Devils’ top three performers, Gary Melchionni, missed four December games with an ankle injury. In the last two games, against Syracuse and VPI, Melchionni, Alan Shaw and Rich’e O’Connor played the entire 40 minutes. Waters has hinted that they’ll have to continue to go the route if the Blue Devils are to be a winner. Because of the route-going performances of that trio, (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) Tilurrr-an Jordan 'ind Carl Roseboro were again the big guns for the Little ountaineers, w:io host undefeated Shelby Thurs day night. Jordan scored 20 points and hauled down 14 re bounds and Roseboro had 17 points and 14 rebounds. Mike Adams added 10 points and three assists. Coach Blalock cited Jordan, Roseboro, Wayne Loach, Tony Falls, John McGill, Mike Poy- seur and John Plonk for their defensive play. Jordan is the top scorer for the Jayvees, having hit 106 points for a 15 ppg average. Roseboro and McGill are also averaging doulble figures. Roseboro has sccored S3 points for a 12 ppg average and McGill ha.s scored €5 markers for a 10 ppg c.vciage. Trailing tlien are Falls with 63 points, Adams 42, Leach 24. Pay- SGur 19, plonk 16, Ron Harrison 13 and Lany Hamrick 8. THLIRSDAY’S GA^VIE Kings Mountain (78)—Jordan 20, Roseboro 17, Leach 3. Falls 3, Adams 10. Hamrick 2, Harrison 2 McGill 6, Plonk 6, Paysour 7. Bolos Highlight Wrestling Card Friday Night Wrestling returns to Kings Mountain’s community cenlei Friday night at 7;30. A tag team match featuring the Great Bolos and two single matchc's are included on the card. Tickets will be $1.00 for chil dren, $2.00 for adults and $2.50 for ringside. Ringside tickets are on sale now at Kings Mountain Drug. In the singles matches. Buck Forrest will -take on Joe Wilson and Haystack Muldoon will bat tle Doug Hawkins. Haystack is one of the biggest men 'in wrestl ing, tipping the scales at 452 pounds. In the tag match, the Great Boles, who liaven’t been in these parts in quite a while, will bat tle Dale Starr and Hoss Strick land. Mounties Get Revenge With Win Over Burns Kings Mountain High School’s ba.sketjball teams captured their second .straight dou'blehcader sweep here Friday night when they dropped Burns in a Soutih- wt.stem Conference twinbill. Tile girls, led by Diane Corn- w(*ll and Debbie Lee, broke open a < lose game in the second half and po.stcd a 47-37 victory and the Mountaineers came from behind in the sCrond half to win by 63- 5.“;. Cornwell and Lee tallied 11 points apiece to spark t'ho Moun- t^inette.s to their fourth league win in fi'.e starts. The victory drcLoed LLrns to 3-2 in the con ference and out of a second place tie with the .Mountainettes and Shelby. , Coach Blaine Froneberger’s girls led by only two points, 17-15, at the luTf but Cornwell and Lee led a balanced scoring attack which broke the contest open in the final two periods. Four ether players scored well for the Mountainettes. All-Con ference forward Carolyn Mitohem had eight points, leading scorcM Deoorah Crockett had six, and Jane Henderson and Susan Cash added five apiece. The Mountaineers trailed by two, 31-29, at intermission but Coach Allen Dixon’s charges came on strong in the final two periods to capture their second straight SWC win. The victory avenged an earlier less to Burns in the opening round of the Burns Tournament. Mike Thombs, the Mountain eers’ leading scorer, once again paced the attack with 19 points. Ben Brown enjoyed one of his bet ter nights, scoring 14, and Randy Wingo added 11 markers. Lamar Queen and Andy Powell had 13 and 12 points, (respectively, to load Coach Bill Powell’s Bulldogs. GIRI-S GAME Kings Mountain (47)—Crock ett 6, Mitchem 8, Cornwell 11, Lovelace 1, Lee 11, Henderson, 5, Cash 5. Burns (7)—^Warlick 13, Meade 1, Ramseur S, Di.xon 7, Pryor 4, Bolt 2, Elliott 1, Ruff 1. BOYS GAME Kings Mountain (63)—Crocker 4, Browm 14, White 7, Thombs 19, Dawkins 4, Wingo 11, Bla lock 4. Burns (55)—Powell 12, Lon don 2, At?cor 9, Howell 9, Queen 13, Borders 8, Gantt 2. CORNWELL GUNS — Diane Cornwell (30) guns in two of her 11 points in Friday's 47137 win over Burns. The win kept the Moun tainettes in a second place tie in the Southwestern Conference. (I. G. Alexonder photo). Ciaftspun And Imperial Claim Wins In Industrial Loop Action Craftspun and Imperial claim- 23, Smith 2. ed victories in mens industrial Merchants (48) — Jackson 3, league basketball action Thurs- Eadcs 10, MoCraney 4, Foster 15, day night at the community cen- Jonog 12, Littlejohn 2, Biddix 2. ter. Outboard motor boat racing really started to grow after 1928 with improved boats and mot ors. Plonk Brothers, Optimist Winners Optimist and Plonk Brothers came away with victories in youth league basketball Thursday afternoon at the community cen ter. Plonk Brothers edged Rotary Club 18-15 and Optimist romped over First Union Bank, 31-10. Johnny Gamble scored 19 points to load OpiPmist to its big win. Five piayers had two points apiece for Fir.st Union Bank. Jackson’s 12 points and Dixon’s six lead Plonk Brothers over Ro tary. Hinnant scored nine points for Rotary. Craft.^pun whipped Duplex, (57- 61. and rmpcrial edged the Mcr- ohant.s 54-48. Charles Jones scored 24 points and Bill Barnes added 19 to spark Craftspun’s victory. Ernest Merritt scored 16 for the losers. Craftspun jumped off to a quick 21-8 lead and was riover headed. Duplex cut it to 49-44 in the third period but that was as close as it came. Tommy Carpenter scored 23 points to lead Imperial to its win over the Merchants. Keich Helms added 15 and J. W. Helms 13. The Merchants led by three poin-ts goin ginto the fourth per iod but the eventual winncr.s out- scored their opponent by 20-9 in the final eight minutes to claLm the victor^'. tBoxscores: Craftspun (67) — Roberts 10, Curry 10, Perkins 2. Jones 24, Barnes 19, Houze 1, Ro.ss 1. Duplex (61) — Watson 11, Rhodes 9. Merritt 16, Johnson 9, Maiming 4, Littloji^hn 12. SWC Cage Standings GIRLS Team W L Pet. South Point 6 0 ixm Kings Mountain 5 1 .833 Burns 4 2 .667 Shelbv 4 2 .667 Cherryville 3 3 .500 East Rutherford 3 3 .5(X) Crest 3 3 .500 R-S Central 2 4 .333 Chase 0 6 .000 Lincolnton 0 6 .000 BOYS East Rutherford 6 0 1.000 South Point G 0 um Crest 4 2 .667 Shelby 4 2 .(HJ7 C.herryville 3 3 .5(MJ R-S C(‘nlra! 3 3 .5(H) Kings Mountain 2 4 .333 Burn.s 2 4 ..333 Chase 0 6 .000 Lincolnton U (; .0(H) Cornwell Leads 37-34 Victory Over Cherries Kings Mountain High’s girls waskt'ijall team took over sole possession of second place in the Soulliwe.stern Confcrencre Tues day night by defeating Oherry- ville .31-34. The Mountaineers had their two game winning streak .snajjped in the nightcap, 77-72L Liane Cornwell, who sparked the* .Mountainettes over Burns Frh day night, had another fine out ing, scoring 13 points to lead the .Slicing lor both clubs. Susan Casii and Carolyn Mit'ehem added isgh! p.iini.-: apiece for Coach Blaine Kronoberger’s cluo. 1 he .Mountainettes built up a Hue. i>':,int edge, 16-13, at half time anil then played the hosts on e.en terms over the final two periods. Kings Mountain’s defense lield Karen Putnam, the SWC's t jp .sccror, to a season’s to'V of .-i.\ jjcints and that turned out to bt Uie diflcronco in the contest. li wa.-> the third straight loss lor Hn‘ Ironwomen, who at one lime were tied with South Point lor the conference lead. A pair uf Deuiilse.s, Giles and late, were the difference in the fxjys game. Tate tallied a game- high 28 points and Giles added 2:i as the Ironmen evened their ctmference record at 3-3. Jimmy Graves was also -in double fig ures for Jim Ramsey’s club, scor ing 14 points. Three players scored in double digits for the Mountaineers, who dii'uppod their eighth game. Mike Thombs and Vernon Crocker led tile way with 17 apiOce and Ben Brown added 15. Clierryvilie led most of the way but never couUI break the con test optm. The Ironmen were out front by six, 40-34, at intenmis- sion. GIRLS GAME Kings Mountain (37) — Mitch em 8, Crockett 1, Cornwell 13, Lee 5, Cash 8, Lovelace 2. Cherryville (34) — Putnam 6, Giles 3. Gaston 11, Sellers 2, Del linger 2, .McKinnon 2, Farres 6, Hope 2. BOYS GAME Kings Mountain (72) — Daw kins 5, Wingo 8, Thombs 17, White 5, Brown 15, Blalock 5, Crocker 17. v’hirryvilU* (77) — Giles 23, D. late 28. Graves 14, Reid 4. Al len 4, B. Tate 2, R. Graves 2. Gardner-Webb Has Pair Games I BOILING SPRINGS — Gar^A Weno's fourth ranktHi NAIA tead has a busy .sch<.*dule this week with two games on the road which can play an important part in the dub’s drive to a higher rating. Coach Eil(lit» Holbrook’s team, .sjwrting a 12-1 ro<x)rd for the sea son. avenged it.s pnly loss of the \’i‘ar by deteating the powerful Lenoir Rhyne Bears Saturday niglii 6458 in Hickory. The game (Continued On Page Four) W Imperial (54) — J. Helms 13, K. Helms 15, Purkey 1, Carpenter Hard Work Pays Off For KM’s George Adams HARD WORKER — Hard work hag poid off for Kings Mountain's George Adams. The All American senior ig currently leading the nation in scoring with o 35.8 overage. BOILING SPRINGS, N. C. — A 22-year-old senior, one of nine children in a low income family in Kings Mountain, North Caro- l:a, has helped propel Gardner- Wobb College into national bas ketball prominence. George A.danns, 6-5 center, is not only leading the nation in National A.sso('i’ation of Intercol legiate Athletics statistics, but he is also playing a major role in the team’s 121 n'oord which has the Bulldogs rated fourth in the NAI.-V nationail ratings. Adams is scoring at a pace of 35.8 points per game and the Bulldogs are scaring at a rate of 11,).4 pc'nts per gain(?. B.:th arc l('s in the NAIA. T’u* Pulldogs arc also Hryt in the winning mar gin w i.h a 29.5 / /ciage and j' nr‘!i in Held graJ .-ihonting with a 51.2 avi'.igo per game. Coar’i Eddie Hc'l''rocl\’s team is also tendh in rebounds with a recov ery aveia.ge of 5S.7. .^dams is also fvXirtli in Indi vJdual field gral .sh'onting vvith a a 65.9 average from the floor. Adams ts a “legitimate” .All- American. He made the NAIA first team All-American last year and the Basketball W.-lters of America College Division first team. He seems n sure bet to re peat on these two teams and possibly add many other honors. Adams has an out-standing col- legiate career w hich lias not gone by unnoticed by profesional scouts. Pro scouts have already been seeing tlie big fellow play in person and a number of pro clubs have inquired about him from the college’s public relations officx'. The interest shenvn in Adams Is not the results, of this season’s record alone. He has been an out standing player for the Bulldogs ne came here from Kings vt.iiain where he was coached ion Hu-v(fy. ii - lirst year with the Bulldogs An..in; srored 17 points per game •' ’iia» ol i\ing a< a fre.shman with .Ar‘!s Gilmore and Ernie Fleming. He lielpcd lead the Bulldogs to a 31-5 recnrd that year, the Bull- dog.? last as a junior college. While Gilmore and Fleming went to Jacksf)nville 'University, Adams chose to stay wPh Hol brook and aGrdner-Webb. It has been a smart move on his part since he has brought fame to the college’s athletic program and nationaf recognition to himself. He scored an amazing 30.8 points per game as a sopho more even tihough the Bulldogs fell to a 17-7 record their first year playing all senior colleges. Adams earned All - American honors his junior year by scoring 27.8 points per game and pulling down an average of 15 rebounds. He also shot 73.1 per cent from the free tlirow line. .His junior year record helped the Bulldog fini.'ih witR a 20-4 record and a final rating of sev enth in the NAIA. Kings .Mountain is less fhan 15 mi!o«? from 'the Girtiner-Webb campus and this no doubf played a big part in his final decision to attend the Papti.'-t College. George’s moUier died when he was four ycar.s old AniJ nis father went to New York to work. George has fotir older brothers, two old er sisters and one j’ounger sister. He and his younger sister, I^vci- ta, stayed in Kings Mountain and were raised by an aunT, Nina Thompsen. The big fellow attributes his basketball success to a large de gree to help given him by hi-< coach, Eddie Holbrook. Coach Holbrook has .spimt many hours working with all of us and I am grateful for the indivklual help that ho has given me,” Ad ams. “He Is always ready to help any player who will take the ex tra time (Hitside of team practici* to work. He has brought talent out of me that I did not think was there. He has encouraged me and inspired me to do my very best. When I wanted to slow down, he insisted that I speed up instead.” Adams, whose family income is very low. has high of mak ing it with the prof(‘.->sionals. He knows that it will take a 1 »t of work for a 6-5 man to make it with the big men of today. But he has spent many hours shoot ing from the outside and this sea-«)n he has an excellent out side shooting average which has the pro sc'outs taking notic'e. Tlie work cf Acl .m-; aral t.he reaching of Holbrook has brought all kinds of fame to Gardner- Webb which is onlv in its third ►’ear as a senior college. WINGO SURROUNDED — Kings Mountain's Randy Wingo (40) tries to get off shot during Fridoy's game with Burns but is sur rounded by a pack of hungry Bulldogs. KM won, 63 55. (Photo by 1. G, Al^andet). _ ' v _ „ 'jL
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