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Thursday, June I. 1972 r2 (lem^on Coach Bill Wilhelm Speaks At Rotary Club Fete THE KINGS KjpyNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. ^ Post 155 ‘Roxscc ei FM-Henricrcj SECTION C », Bill Wilhi-lm, head baseball winning percentage and 48th on ba during the off-season. * iach at I'kimson Universiity, will the all-time list. 20 of his Henrietta Dyers, li Hines, 3n lArrowood, lb Hudson, p Ocode, c Lovelace, ef MoBee, 2b H RM Juniors Try To Go Over .59) nir Here Tonight Against Shelby be t!ie .eatured speaker at the Ibt'h annual Rotary Club baseball Uiiuiii ;,n Thursday at noon at the Kings Mountain Country Club. Tilt luruheon is held each year in In ner of the Kings Mountain ili,-:li heel team. Higlhlighting the l(>te is the presentation of Jolin ii. Moss .\ward, whiJh is .given eii'-h year to the Mountain- ee,K’ most valuable player. Wilhelm has been head of the Clem.s ;n ijii.sc oall proTram for 15 yetirs and the China Grove, N. C., native has never had ^ losing .“oaeon. Hi.s first year as coach, he led Die Tigers to the ACC champ ionship, the District Three champ- itnship and a fifth place in the Xw\A national tournament. VVilliclim has won over 300 games as a college coach, plac ing liiim 26th in the nation for wins jy an ac'.iive coalch. He’s 66lli on the all-time winningest list. He’s 23rd in the nation in Wilhelm has seen athletes sign professional con tracts. Prooa'bly the most widely- known Wilhelm product was Ty Cline, who spent several seasons in the major leagues. Wilhelm lettered five years In ba.seball and four years in foot ball and basketball at Windsor (1.1. C.) High School. He graduated frem Windsor in 1948 and signed a 'baseball echolarshlp with N. C. State. Wilhelm has been a key figure in the success of the District , Three basebaJl tournament, which lotais is held each year in Gastonia., Mountain Wilhelm has served as the tour- nament chairman on several oc- ^ . casions and ihe .has coached his *‘’•j’.®®''’ team to several tournament crowns. As noted earlier, the highlight „ ^ ,, of today’s luncheon will be the DyKe, it presentation of the Mos.s Award, which originated in 1963 after the Mountaineers won their first ■ Souibhwestern Coniferen'se baseball He played for the WolEpack for title. Ironically, the .MVP winner two years, then transferred to Catawba College, where he grad uated in 1957 with an AB degree in physical education. He was an assistant baseball coach at the University of North Carolina in 1937 wihlle working on a master’s degree. After his two years at State, Wilhelm signed a professional contract with the St. Louis Card inals a'nd played through the 1956 season. He'attended Cataw- '1 .A.., HERALD SFORTS By GARY B’rEWAliT in 1963 was Barry Gibson, the cur rent KMiHS coach. Juniors have won the trophy the past two years. Chuck Car penter, a pitcher-outfieldcr, won the award in 1970 and David Bo lin, a catcher^ copped the award last year. Lefthanders have won six of the nine Moss Awards. The only righthandeis to be reccjgnizod were pitcher Steve Goforth in 1966, Carpenter and B<jlin. The complote list of past phy winners follows: PAST WINNERS 1963— 8arry Gibson, pitcher. 1964— 'Mickey Cell, outfielder. 1985—Seerley Lowery, pitcher. 1966—Steve Goforth, pitcher. 1937—Nelson Connor, short.siop. 1981;—Paul Gaffney, catcher. I9c9—iRocky Gcfcrlh, pitcher. 1970— Chuck Carpenter, pitcher. 1971— David Bolin, catcher. Bridges, 3b 3 0 0 0 Hicks, rf 3 0 0 0 Totals 30 0 3 0 S'-err by innings: Henrietta 000 O'iO OCl—1 Kings .Mtn. 000 000 000 -0 E—Withers, G-’-ide. LC3—KM 5, Henrietta 5. DP—^Mocce, Parker and WMhers; Hicks anti Bolin. 2B—-Arrowood. 3D—Herd. 9B—Har- rill, Byers. Pitcher: IP H R ER BB Hudson (W) 9 3 0 0 2 8 Hartsoe (L) 9 5 112 8 HB?—Goode, by Hartsoe. WP — Hartsoe. T—1:30. U'—Goeden and Day. iTO- Mulllnax's Bun Gives Champion 11-10 Victory Smith And Holland Are Happy Over Recent Cage Signings 1 vvo of North Carolina’s top college basketball coaches no doubt are tickled pink over recent signings. North Carolina’s Dean Smith recently inked one of ^ the mostly highly touted .players in the east, Mitch Kup'i Thrcvving iiTo in'a batife ot the chak of Brentwood, N. Y. Kupchak is 6-9 anci 228 pount^i unbeatens in men’s softball and averaged 30.5 points and 24.4 rebounds per game 1^’c league play .Monday night, season. He was All-Long Island, All-Suffolk County an<J All-America. Davidson’s Tery Holland signed Eppa Rixey IV, a 6-8 standout from Cincinnati’s Indian Hill High School. He was being sought by more than 100 col'leges. Commenting on his prize catch, Coach Smith said: “We are excited about Mitch’s future in college basketball at Carolina. He's an excelent student and a player w |.ti extra inning, is interested in team play and winning. He’s a young- man in them old of many of our forrher playerk who have been champions.” Kupchak is the fifth player to sign with the Tar Heels this season. Others are 6-3 Jimmy Guill of Winstoh-Salemj Walter Davis of Charlotte, •' 6-5 Billy Chamber’s of ^P’eensboro and 6-0 Dave Hanners of Columbus, Ohio. Davidson’s big caiich is the grandsoh of former Cint- Gary (bllvcr and Sonny Jackson cinnati Reds pitcher, Eppa Rixey, Jr., who was the win- secAfed'three hite eich. Stewart ningest lefthander in liic National League until Warren ‘ ■ Spahn came along. He is a member of the Hall of Fame and is the winningest lefthander in Reds history. Rixey averaged 16.7 points and 14 rebounds per game his senior year and was named first team All-Conference. He was a second team choice on the All-Cincinnati,team. “Eppa is a fine college prospect,” noted Holland. “He would have been firet team all-city if he had not 'been in jured and had a stretch of fiveorsixgam es when he did very little scoring.” Holland noted that he had been aver aging over 20 po'ints when he suffered a shoulder separal- tion. Closer home, Gardner-Webb football coach George Litton has announced the signing of twK) Florida prep standouts, Mark Bromstad and Mark Morgan, bo'th of Merritt Island. Bot hare are defensive backs and are being counted games, beating Skitmore 12-6 on to play immediately for the Bulldogs. Said Coach Richard May, who recruited the pair of Marks: “We lost several good defensive backs through 3 Champien’s Landscaping Num ber Two scored a run in the eighth inning to nip Carolina Wayne Mullinax singled and late; scored ,he -winning run on a single 'jy Ware. Cbroilna Throwing, which jump ed- off fb a '5-0 first -inning lead, had to ctime back wi.li four runs in the sixth and one in the sev enth-to send ithe game Into an ing. Connor had three hits, insludlnjt a • Heme -run, to lead the winners. Seven other players had,two hit? each. Bolitj, Parke-r and Atwood had three hits each for the losers. Caro-liha I hrowing bounced back for a iO-0 victory over Oxford as collected three hits for the losers. Craftspun won a pair of games last week, beating Mica Mine 11-2 and Duplex 10-2. Carrigan had four hits to lead the win ov-er Mica and Dickie Burges,; had four while Perkins and Raim|-y added th.ee ea;h agalnet Duplex. DGey Fabrics copped two ol th.-ee gai.-nes last week, winning over Oxford 13-3 and Mi?a Mine 13-0 while losing to Gastonia Knit 5-3. Bridges led the w in ovei Oxford with three hits. Tommy Pruitt, baseoall coach at Central Junibt- High, was 3-fcr-3 in the win over Mic? Mine. Specitrum also wen a pair of KM-Bessemer City Kings Mtn. Ab R H Rbi M::ore, 2b 4 0 10 Withers, lb 3 4 2 0 Pa .ker, p 4 2 2 2 Bolin, c 3 111 F hols, If 2 0 0 0 Van Dyke, 2b 2 0 12 Herd, ss-If 3 0 0 0 Hartsoe, cf 4 13 0 Bridges, 3b 2 0 0 0 Hicks, rf 3 111 Valentkie, rf 10 0 0 Teals 31 9 11 6 r. City Huftsm-Tcr, rf Lutz, If Nichols, 2b Dameron, lb Riddle, cf Franklin, p-3b Black, ss Shull, c Wingo, p Totals Score- by inning K. Mtn. B. City E—Schcls, Van Nichols 11. 2:'- ker. Pitcher: Ip H R ER BB SO Parker (W) 7 3 5 3 7 7 Hartsoe Leading Batting Attack With .400 Maik Kings Mountain’s Amc.-ie-an Le gion Juniors t.y to go back over the .500 mark here Thursday when c.junty-riv-'a' Shelby c '.mes to town fer a 7:45 p.m. gaime. Pos; 155 sa-vv Ls recc.d dip to 2-2 Tiicxiay night as Henrietta captured a 1-0 victory'. E th KM lo-se.s have '.teen by one run. Keith Parker, whe .- rrped '3e'- stmer City on a three-hitter Sat urday night, will probably draw fihc starting pitching assignment for Post 155. Shelby- is fresh fre n a 14-13 victcry over previously ur.heaten Hick-ry-. Shel ly, like Post 155, has a 2-2 Area Four rec ord. Danny Hartsoe is the early leader in the Po.st 155 hit parr Ic. ’The pitcher-outfielder is hitting a.i even .400 with six h’s in 15 t' ips tb the plate. He had three hits in Saturday’,-, win over t-e" semer City and two in Monday’s 5-2 win at Chcrryville. G.-a'ton Wi:iU's is ihe only oth er regular hitting ever .300. Wi'.h- er3 has six hits in 17 f .nes at bat IC'. a .33". average. Outfielder Tim Ee-iiols wa.s hit ting .500 (3-.'ct-6) when he war injured in Saturday's viet'-ry at Bessemer City. .4'1 three c i E: hcls’ hit-s crime in KM’-, 9-8 evening ■gam? lo-r. to Hickory. Post 155 will ‘ra-el t F-ire-t City Saturday night to take on one ci the League 1 v'o favc .ites and next Tuesday n’-ht the Jun- k'-s w-ill rc'i:-n to ,City S'adium for a g.nmo with Mcr,ga:-i'on. Hard w-'ll pre ’bly face 'Fcre.st City with Hartsoe going against iMor- ganton. / / 1/ / Am kiU JiP-. LEADS JUNIORS — Second baseman Robl/j Moore secured two of Kings Mountain's three hits in Tuesday's 1-0 loss to Henrietta. The Juniors host Shelby tonight and Moeganton Tuesday. 130 203 0—9 001 010 3—5 Dvkc, Wi ngo, 2, Hord. LOB-KM 12, EG -Dameron, Withers, Par- KM-Cherryville Henrietta Nips Post 1551-0 In Last Inning Hen-:rtta’,- Juniors pickc i up a nirth inning run hrre Tue.sday night to n’p Kings Mountain Post 155 1-0 in an .Area Four League Two .game. The loss left Po.st 155 with a Juniors Whip Heavner On Herd’s Four Hitter Post 155 Loses In 9-5 Victory Kings Mountaiin’s Juniors won the battle but may have lost the war Saturday night at Bessemer City. Ere: me and Farmer had three hits each in the win over , j -I. -1, .. 1 * . 1 . Skidmore and Cutchin, Birojme, gradua'tion and ft will take some outstanding players to j.^nes Ellis and Greene had two take up the slack. We hope that the two,Marks will help each in the win over Mica 'Mi.-ie do this.” ' Gastonia Knit claimed a 3-1 —Summer League Play Opens J".' iS. Zl Short cuts from the world of sports: by. Rhodes. Three games on Tuesday, June 6, will open play in the North Carolina Collegiate Summer Baseball League. North Carolina is 'the defending champion in the strong si.x-team league. First night games will have UNC at East Caroline,, • Duisburg at Campbell and Appalachian at UNC-Wilming- m. Appalachian is the league’s newest member and will he based in Red Springs.. . Promoter Edgar Gault has scheduled a big Carolina 100 at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia Sunday night and the first 20 finishers will get a share of the purse. A field of 25, including Kings Mountain’s Freddy Smith, is ex pected. . . Smith will be racing in Gaffney Saturday night where promoter A. E. Humphries says he’s going “all out to have the best on hand.”. . . Hickory Speedway promoter Ned Jarrett has a big card set for Saturday. In addition to his regular racing program which consists of sportsman, hobby and rookie main events, Jerrett has scheduled the Mustang Hell Etriv- ers. Gates open at 5 p.m. with the first race set for 8 o’clock. . . —Best Kemper Ever? All-Amcrican Reggie McAfee and sophomore Tony Waldrop head a four-man squad which will represent the University of North Carolina in the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Eugene, Ore., June 1-3. Others running for the Tar Heels will be Lennox Stewart and Darryl Kelly. . . 'The Kemper Open is scheduled to start its four-day run at Charlcttte’s Quail Hollow Country Club this morn ing. All the big names on the PGA tour (excluding Ja f. Nicklaus) will be there, making this the best Kemper in history. But the golfers wili have to go some to make this year’s finish any more dramatic than Igst year’s, when Ohian Tom Weiskopf won a four-man sudden death vic tory over Gary Player, Lee Trivino and Dale Douglass. .. Snaking of the Kemper, last year a lady fan was seated around the 18th green when one bf the golifer’it shots went astray and rolled up her dresstail. The lady ^^ad to sit there until a ruling was made 'by one of the ^P’GA officials concerning a free drop. . . Kings Mtn. Moore, 2b W.jthfi.s, lb 4 12 0 Parker, ss 3 10 0 Bc'lin, c 2 10 0 H-rd, r 3 0 11 Hartsoe, cf 4 2 2 3 Van Dyke, if 10 0 0 Eridgea, 3b 4 0 10 Hicks, rf 2 0 0 0 Ibtals 27 5 5 5 Cheriyrille Rudisill, 3b 4 0 10 Alien, 2b 4 0 0 0 G'antt, ss 4 110 Heavner, p-lb 3 0 0 0 Cennor, of 3 0 10 Owens, If 3 0 0 1 Lawing, c 4 10 0 Packer, lb 10 0 0 Reynolds, lb 10 10 Lcd'fci.d, p 10 0 0 Su'.T.mer, rf 3 0 0 0 TSta'ls 31 2 4 1 Score by innings: K. Mtn. 010 003 COl—.5 Cherry. 001 000 001>->2 L'—Bolin, Bridges, Hord, Heavner, Allen. LOB—/.M 13, Che:'ryv';lle 6. 3-'—Bridges. HK—Hartscc. SB — Withers, Bolin. Pitcher: IP H R ER BE SO Hord (W) 9 4 2 1 1 5 Heavner (L) 5S 4 4 2 7 9 Ledfcrd o'a 1 1 1 5 0 Hii'-Hartsoe, by Le:i'fcrd. WP — Heavner 5, Lcd.ord. Most so-called basc’oall experts around the area regard Chc.rj- ville's Joe Heavner _as the tep young pitcher around. But, don't tell the young men who play t iscbali fer Kings .Mountain High L'.hoi) and Otis D. Green Ameri- and Eddie Rudicill's single. Chcr- ryville picked up its other run in the ninth on Roger Gantt's single and Herd’s only two walks of the Ab R H Rbi 2-2 recerd heading into tonight s Legion Post 155. me here with Shefey. Kings Mountain's Danny Hact- '"'C and Henrietta's south-raw Terry Hudson matched two-hitters cwr the firrt e'ght innings. But the vlitor.c collected three straight liits c'f Hartsoe in the ton <1 the nintli to ptisli across the winning run. The Kings Mountain beys have laced Heavner three times this year in high sohcol and legion pluy and ti. cc I; Ties KM has defeated the hard-throwing nght- hander. The th'rd time' came Monday night in Chcrryville when Pent 155 captured a 5-2 v'iclory bdiind Hud'cn, a Chpsnee, 3. C., prep Ho d's four-hitter. Heavner r'ciiols At BC TIM ECHOLS Out Of Action Post 155 won a 9-5 decision but lost the services of outfielder Tim Fl.hc'lb, who suffered a seri ous eye injury when he misjudg ed a fly ball in the fourth inning. In the fourtih, BT's Sk'.p Frank lin hit a fly ball to short left fic Id. Frhols came in for tlie ball as shortstop Rick Herd drifted ba,-k. When 'Hc.'d got between E.'hcLs and the ball, E.’h: Is lo'l it in Ihe dim light and it struck him in the eye. The All-Southwe.stprn rartfer- ence outfielder was rushed to the King,- Mountain Hospital, then transff.ared to Cleveland Memor- ia'l. He was dismissed from the hr.spi'.il Tue.sday but dortorr fear he might lose partial sight of the eye. Pest 155 is hopeful Echols will be afclo to return tc play tort ath- Ic'llc ci'l'icer Gene Tignnr said Tuestiay that if’,-, doubtful he w’'1. Keith Parker hurled a three- hFer as the game wa'' ste-ipei after seven innin.gs. Danny Hart- Pce led KM at bat wi h 3-far-4 and Parker and Grafton Withers added twaj hits each. Post 155 was never in trouble, build'nrg up a 9-2 le.ad head'ing into the ibottem of the seventh, w'''pn .Bf struck for three runs. Post 155 picked up a singleicn Continued on Page Four r'iurt, fin'’'he:i with a three- hkter and eight strikeouts. Hart- '■r- f'ni bed wkh a five-hitler in losl"g h:is first game since last summer. Two perfect throws from right- Feldc;' Steve Hivks prevented fur- tb“'- set'Ing by Henriefia in the iii.-'h. P. J. Byers led off the inning \v' h a single and stole second. Terry Hines singled to right but H'gks’ threw nabbed Byers at the plate. Hines went to second on the thro.v-in and pcored the gEme’,': cr.'.y run when Steve Arro- w'cod cf Chase doubled off the Ic : fh’d ba nk. Hirtsce walked Hudson and hit Marty Goede to load the bases w'th erriy one away. Jim Love- ia'c then filed cut to Hicks and Hicks r:h'oed A rowerd when he tried to tag up and come home. Pi:155 got runners In scoring prsiiicn only three times. In the first inning, Robbie M ore singled and made it to so"and W'hen Dav'id Bolin walked wiHi two away. In the fourth, Rick Hord tripled with two away but was left •stranded a.s Hartsoe fanned. In the niinth. Mtxrre led of! with a single and went to second on a throwing eurcr. Bolin later walked with two away but Hord bounced cut to the pitcher to end the game. Hines, a Chase product, finish ed with tw'o hits to lead Henri etta. Aricwocd had tie only extra ba-'o hit for the visitors. The vic'ory eve.ned Henrietta’s League Two record at 2-2. worked the first five and two- tiiirds innings before liitting a wild streak and giving way to Co bin Lodir. ,1. Heavn,'. gave up but four hits 'Ond struck out nine in his five innir.’ j i C,; but he also wai.ged seven bi'.-lcrc a.nd uncorked five w .' p'fclics. Hord, meanwhile, was having vc.-y li'.tlc ccntrol prcc'jlcm. He walked cnly two Clierryville ’oat- ter.s and struck out five in going the distance. The victory evened his season’s re'oe.rd at cne win and cnc loss. Danny Hartsoe was the key reason Heavner Ic't his third straight contest to KM. Hartsoe slam'.Tied a Heavner pitch ovei the Ic'ft field fence in the second inning to give Post 155 a 1-0 lead. Chciryville tied the scor<> in the third but Post 155 struck fer three runs in the sixth to knock Heav'ncr out.Tiie big blew was a two-run single by Harisoo. Hart soe stored the third run on one ol Hc.Tvncr’s five wild pitches. Post 155's final run came in the ninth off Ledford. Grafton Witliers, who fini.slied with two hits, singled and later scored cn Hord's single. Chorryvillo’s third inning tally, which tied the Score at 11, came as a 'result of three KM errors Babe Ruth Loop ’ Flay To Begin On Tuesday The Kings Mountain Babe Ruth League will begin i's season T jc- day at Deal Street Park. , C'tj Recreation Director Boy Pears',n said thei’e will be six terms in the league and games w ;1 be played cn 'Tuesdays, Wed- r.c. day, Fridays and Saturdays ai 1 week through July 8. Tiic tec.ins ent...ej in me league include VFW. Opf'mi-st, Kings la.jntain, Dircy Fabrics, Besse- r.K. fiity and T'-yon. Pearson said the latter two teem,- were added to make ithe league m .c competitive. Pear- , so 1 s.rid a; Me season's end a 'rc Tin'. tec i ii .=elc't the all- .'sta.' team, and c .c. .los and that ‘^*ach team m ■ r- represented •’jen the cli- .com. l.n- ,.,e.« a, i .rtiday games livill be gnmc.i at Deal f^treet Park. The Wei’-e dav and Saturday cor. cst, will be dou'cle headers at Cllj eic .i. ■ aiiic i.mc Icr -11 games are 5 p.m. Pea.-s' n said thaC o.nc more n.-cr is needed and that the co.it wcui:i bo approximately $450. "Tliat price would cover the entire co.st <1 the team,” said Pear.son, "out, mere imipc-riant, would allow us to take care of mere b.cys in cur prograim.” The complete league schedule f''’'ows: JUNE G V'.-VV V..'. Tiyon JUNE 7 Cptim'i.ot vs. B. City Kings Mtn. vs. Dicey JUNE 9 L -ev vs. Tryon •lUNE 10 t. City vs. VFTV Cotimist vs. King,? Mtn. JUNE 13 E. City vs. Kings Mm. JUNE 15 T.-ycn vs. Optimist VFv\ vs. Dicey JUNE IG King.s Mtn. vs. VFW JUNE 17 Cplimi ’. vs. Dicey i'rycn vs. B. City JUNE 20 Dicey vc. B. City JUNE 21 V'F'A vs. Optimist Kings Mtn. vs. Tryon JUNE 23 Trvon vs. VFW JUNE 2-' B. City vs. Optimist Dicev v.s. Kings .\ltn. JUNE 27 Trvon \s. Dicey 1 JL'NE 2: VFA vs. B. City King'- Mtn. vs. Optimist .uni: 30 Cng- .Mtn. vs. B. City iULV 1 -'ntimist \'o. Tryon r..e\ V.S. VF’W UL'i -t c'Vv vs. Kings Mtn. UL'i hccy vs. Optimist '. City vs. Tryon ULY 7 . C;tv vs. Dicey ULY‘s , m:--t vs. VFIV 'rycn vs. Kings Mtn. RICK HORD Hurls Four-Hitter Ipps Lan^ Ul-Amencan Belmont Abbey College basket- 1 ccajji L.i.ojy Hussey has ink- t thiee 'nig men foi the 19(2-13 i. M.)1I. o.^.ied to play basketball for ■le Crusaders are 6-7 Tuny Har- lin of Dallas, N. C'.. 6-7 Curtis ar’.er of Winnsbord. S. C., and -11 Ralph Harrill CT Reidsville, Huskey feels the Three players vill give the Abbey irr)mcdiate lelp. The Crusaders finished 13- 3 last year in Hussey’s first yeai 3 coach. Hickory Nips Post 155 In 12, 9-8 Herring Named Tourney Umpire Rurty Herring of Durham, grandson of Mrs. J. W. Revels of Kings Mountain, has been chosen as one of the four umpires for the District Three NCAA baseball tournament in Gasronia June 1-3. Revels is a former three-sports star at Northern High School in Durham and has been umparing in the Atlantic Coast Conference for lour years. Other umpire.s working the Gastonia tournament are John Holler of Boone, Larry Travis, a North Carolina graduate, and for mer Lenoir Rhyne College sports standout Bull Newsome. Revels is the son of Mrs. J. Rus- .sell Herring of Durham. She is tile foimgr Margaret Revels bf Kings Mountain. Post 155 blew a 5-0 lead in los ing a 9-8, 12 inning decision to IL.kory in the Area Four legicii (Tcencr fer the local diamoiidmen here Thursday night. The Junior,; recked along with a 5-0 lead until the top of the nin.h, wlicn the visitors from Catawba C:)unty rallied lor five I an;: to lie the score. Hickory collected three hits, Post 155 hurler Danny Hartsoe issued three walks and Hart.soe and second basom in Robbie .Moore ccmmitlod a costly error apiece. Pick Hold came'in from center- field to put out the fire but wound u.' lo.sit’.g the game In the 12th Hickory touched Hord lor foe." funs for a 9-5 lead, then held off a KM rally in the bottom of the 12th. The game was a marathon ol fcrts as the four pitchers combin ed to walK 25 hatters and a total ci 34 men worn lefl on liasc'—21 Hickory men and 13 Mountain eers. David Reid, a southpaw, was the winning pitrtier. He worked the final four innings for Hiick- ory, giving up only two hits while walking four and fanning eight. He relieved starter VVilmer Walk- e.. who was tone lied for 13 hits ovv the first eight innings. Hartsce had a four - hitter throu.gh fhc fir.st eight innings but was knocked out in the ninth. He struck out 10 batters but e.v peiicnccd cor. rcl problems, which is a rarity for him. He walked nine batters. Po.st 1.55 outhit the visitors, 15 to 11, with Tim Echols and Graf- t in Withers loading the way witii three hi's a' ioce. Every KM start er had at least one hit. Post 155 scored singletons in the second and fourth Innings for a 2-0 load. David Bolin scori'd the second inning tally on an error. Hartsx: singled and .s'cc.ed on a double by EvhoLs fer llie fourth Inning run. The hosts added three more runs in the sixth for a 5-0 lead. Shortstop Keith Parker tripled h mc two cf the runs and the other sccrcsi on a fielder's choke. 'Har.sje walked tire first two batter,; to get in the ninth inning jim. Back-to-back hits by Rusty Huffman and Mike Lutz, and then ba.'.s-to-bsi'.'k throwing errors by Hartsce and Mojre put the Hica- ory rally i-n high gear. Back-to-back hits by Lutz and Mike Hc'.ner started the 12th in- nin.g Hickory rally. .A fielder's choice, a bases-l-iadod walk and a two-irun single by Chris Cooke acccuiited for the runs. lla,.-ts.x». Herd and Echols drew consecutive walks to start KM's be item of the 12th rally. .After Wayne Bridges fanned, Reid hit Ji'mmy iF.ts to force homo the first run. Robbie Moore singled in two more, leaving runners on second and thii-d with only one out. But Withe.-s fanned and Par ke; ojunced out to end the game.