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ThurwUy, June 39. 1978-MIRROR-HERALD-Page 7A ites the e battle render, tlonal located Satur- >wn at 9 rk am- case of vlU be ■ Center Junday y 4, the history re staff 1 dress fe and firing L, 3 and mission of the ubllc Is TS \n 14 f rs f To Coach Defensive Front iVeC. State Tackle Kohl To Join Mountaineer Staff Jack Kohl, who helped lead N. C. State’s Wolfpack to three bowl appearances In the past three seasons, has Joined the football coaching staff at Kings Mountain High School. A 6-8, 388-pound native of Ravenna, Ohio, Kohl will be responsible for the Mountaineer defensive front. He’s the fourth coach signed since Dan Brooks took over as head mentor. Steve Foster, offensive line coach, David 9PORT? Brinkley, backfleld coach, and Charles Burns. Jayvee coach, earlier Joined the staff. "I feel lucky to get the Job," said Kohl, who will also serve as ICT In structor. "Kings Moun tain’s a real nice town and the coaching staff and school sulmlnlstratlon Is real supportive." Brooks said Kohl comes highly recommended both as a coach and teacher. "He has a real good football background, having played both of fensive and defensive tackle," noted the KM mentor. "He and Coach Foster will compliment each other real well. "He was highly recruited by Lou Holtz,’’ added Brooks, “and that alone spesiks highly of him. I talked with Coach (Bo) Rein at State and he said Kohl played In every giune for him and worked real hard for everything he got. I feel like he’ll continue to do that as a coach. I think people who have to work hard make better coaches than those who have a lot of talent and everything comes easy for them. "We’re real happy to get him as a teacher, too," he continued. "Everybody at State ssdd he’s one of the best to ever come out of their ICTP department. It’s Important that he wants to do a good Job In the classroom too.” JOINS MOimXAlNBERS - Jaok Kohl. SMted, former N. C. State tackle, gets ready to stga a ooatraot to teach and coach football at Kings Mountain High School. Kohl wUl be In charge of the defensive front and wlU assist Steve Foster with the offensive line. LooUng on are KMHS Principal Forrest Wheeler, left, and head foothaU coach and athletic director, Dan Brooks. Wildcats And 49er8 To Play single. Qualifying Set DAVIDSON — Davidson College again wili play an ambitious basketball schedule in 1978-79 — highlighted by a first ever meeting with cross county rival UNC-Charlotte. Davidson announced its 1978-79 schedule Friday at a joint press conference with UNCC officiais and representatives of Charlotte Oteerver Charities, which will sponsor the game. Davidson and UNCC will meet Feb. 19 at the Charlotte Coliseum. Although UNCC will be designated as the home team the two schools will share the net proceeds equally. In addition to UNCC, Davidson will play seven other Charlotte Coliseum games, including Notre Dame, Wake Forest, Duke, Furman, Brown and the Charlotte Invitational Tournament. The CIT field includes Canisius, Long Island and Connecticut. Davidson faces Canisius in the opening round of the Nov. 24-25 tournament. Davidson will go on the road for a pair of tournaments in December. The Wildcats play in the Indiana Classic Dec. 18- 19 at Bloomington, Ind. They travel to Albquerque, N, M, for the Lobo Classic Dec. 29- 30. The Indiana field includes host Indiana. Army and Washington. The Lobo tour nament includes host New Mexico, Idaho and Miami (Ohio). Pairings have not been established for either tournament. The road schedule also includes a game at N. C. State, the former school for Davidson's first year coach Eddie Biedenbach, whose team will include four starters from last year. One of the four starters is all-American candidate John Gerdy, who averaged 25.8 points last year and is almost certain to become the Wildcats’ all-time leading scorer. Smith Racing At Gaffney OAFFNEY, S. C. - Promoter Ed Oault Jr. has four big races on the agenda for the next two weeks, starting Thursday night here at the Cherokee Speedway. Saturday night, Qault plans a 60-lap special Open competition race for the late models, a semlmodlfled and rookie progrsim. Fourth of July night, and Saturday night following the fourth, conclude the two weeks of exciting racing. Fulmer Lance, driving a No. 88, white and black, Camaro, from Washington, Oa., sat his foot In victory circle for the Central Rec Program To Begin Next Week Central School will sponsor a free summer recreation program for rising sixth and seventh graders beginning July 8 and running through August 4. All persons interested may register at 9 a. m. on July 6. ActlvlUas win run from 9 a m. until 13:80 p. m. each day. Activities Include soft- volleyball, hor- seshoee, table tennle basketball, tennis, and basic gymnastics and wrestling. The reason for the program Is to acquaint the rising sixth and seventh graders with the school and Home of the faculty. ball. h’hll Weathers and Pam .Salvers. Central’s health and physical education teachers, will be In charge of the program. first time Saturday night, beating out Gaffney’s David Perry and Mike Duvall, and Bolling Springs’ Dennis WUUatps In a fender-to-fender finish. Raymond Payne, Fbrest City, finished fifth. Shelby’s Butch Bowen, who gained the eemlmodlfled lead after tangling up with Gaffney’s Larry Petty, gained his fourth win. Both cars got crossways In the second turn but Bowen came out the leader. Roger Ugon ran In third spot after spinning out. Don Oaulden, Rock Hill, got his third rookie wdn of the year. Beimy Clonts, Freddy Smith, Mike Humphries, Houston Wilkie, Charlie Blggera, Bob Cooper, Doug Osteen and J. C. Eaves are some of the other late model favorites expected to return. The Cherokee Speedway Is located off the Gaffney exit on I-S8. Gates open at 6 o’clock and action begins at 8 o’clock. "Theschedule is too tough,” Biedenbach said. "But I like it and am excited about it. I know our players feel the same way. I just hope they never see the full schedule and we can show it to them one game at a time. f m Kohl was an All- Conference offensive and defensive tackle at Ravenna High, a 3-A school with an enrollment of about 1,000. In Ohio, 3-A Is the largest clsissl- ficatlon. He played defensive tackle his first year at N. C. State and lettered at offensive tackle the put two years. He will graduate from State later this summer and will be In Kings Mountain In time for the start of grid practice the first week In August. In High school, Kohl led his team to Its conference title with an 8-3 record In 1978. He was most valuable player on the track team and specialized In the shot put. Kohl Is 33 years old and Qualifying for the Green Valley Four-Ball Tour nament will begin Saturday and run for two weeks. Any persons Interested In entering the event may do so by going by the pro shop or calling pro Barry Stevens at 788-7681. You do not have to be a member to participate. Entry fee Is $30 per team and trophies will be awarded to the first and second place finishers In each flight. Photo By Gary Stewart FUTUBE PBOf Audrey Amos serves the tennis ball during a practloe match at the Kings Mountain High School courts. Hie 16-year-old Bflss Amos Is one of the top anmteur tennis players In the state of Arlsona and has hopes of p'aylng college and professional teonls. The daughter of Dr. and Mrs. BUI Amos, formerly of Kings Mountain, became interested in competitive tennis five years ago after seeing pro star BUlle Jean King play In a tournament In her hometown. Net Star Audrey Amos Hard Work Pays Off “Seriously, the schedule is one of the most attractive in the country. The Southern Conference is getting tougher all the time and all of the teams have improved over last year with recruiting. And the addition of East Tennessee improves the league. "Our non-conference schedule has to be the toughest In the country. It includes nine teams that were in the NCAA and NIT last year, plus our conference champion Furman, which made the NCAA playoffs and lost to Indiana by one point." Athletic director Thom Cartmtll said "Our schedule is very difficult and one which I think will be very exciting for our fans with Notre Dame, Wake Forest, Furman snd the Charlotte Invitational Tournament, plus the addition of UNCC, Kings Mountain can lay some claim to not one, but two of the nation’s top amateur tennis players. Tim Riddle, as most local people know. Is ranked as one of the best nettors In thU state. Six teen year old Audrey Amos, daughter of former KM resident BUI Amos, Is among the top players In the state of Arizona. pros, Mort Stone, who now Uvea In California. He tutored pro standout, Stephanie ToUeson, and started Audrey on a strenuous exercise program which Involves about three hours work per dav. a couple of months but not seriously. It was after seeing her that I wsmted to start playing competitive tennis." The Amos’s who live In PhoenL. where Mr. Amos Is a physician, wore here earUer this week visiting relatives. Including Dr. Amos’s mother, Mrs. M. C. Amos, and his brother, Jim. As a freshman In high school (she la now a rising Junior) Audrey helped lead her team to the district championship (or the ninth stral^t year. But she has since given up high school tennis because she foals she can face tougher competition at clubs In the Phoenix area. Audrey competes In about a dozen tournaments a year and just recently completed the Southwest Thumament, where she competed with 48 of the best players from Arizona, Now Mexico and part of Texas. The tournament Is a qualifying event for the national tournament, but Audrey failed to qualify. tember 25, usually com petes against older players and In the coming year will be competing in the 18- year-old division. “Most of the people I’m playing against started when they were around six years old," she says. “People like Tracy Austin come from California to play In the Phoenix tournaments. There are 700,000 people In Phoenix and over a million In the Phoenix area where most of the good players come from.” Audrey started her tennis career at ago 11, which Is about five ytsars later than moat good players, but has worked hard to develop her game. As an ll-year-old Audrey attended a pro woman’s tournament In Phoenix and that’s whan hor love for the sport began. She's trained under one of the nation’s top teaching "I saw BUlle Jean King play," she recalled, "and I decided I wanted to be like her. I had been playing for "I played the number three ranked player In the second round, Katherine Kell,” she recalled. "She split sets with Tracy Austin and almost beat Austin In the finals of the Seventeen Tournament, qjonsored by Seventeen Magazine." Audrey, because her birthday falls on Sep- Audrey's goal are to play college and pro tennis and she feels this coming year, when she'll be competing against 18 year olds, will determine whether or not she’ll be able to ac complish those (eats. "I don't know If I'll be able to make It,” she says. “It’ll take a lot of hard work.” But. she already knows about the hard work.
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