KM’s Carl Smith
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expressed an interest in him, but
have encouraged him to attend
prep school for one year.
“If I go to a prep school,” he
said, “I would like to go to an
ACC school like Clemson, Wake
Forest or North Carolina, or
either to Temple University,” he
said.
Smith recently visited the
Temple campus in Philadelphia
and was highly impressed with
the school and basketball pro-
gram. “But,” he said, “I don’t
feel like I could go right in there
and be academically successful.”
A year of prep school, he said,
would better prepare him
academically and as a basketball
player should he decide to go the
major college route.
He says he feels he will take
basically the same role as he did
in high school when he hits the
college hardwood.
“I won’t be a great scorer,” he
said. “I want to be a leader and
the coach on the floor. But I feel
like if I have to score, I can play
that role too. ”
He says he’s always patterned
his style of play after guard Gus
Wynn of Seattle. “He’s quick,
plays good defense and leads the
team,” Smith said, “and if he has
to score, he can.”
Smith, who is a basketball
natural, said he didn’t always
want to play organized basket-
ball. He credits former Kings
Mountain Junior High coach
Ken Napier with giving him the
push he needed.
“l could always play,” he
recalled, “but I didn’t plan to
play school ball. He asked me to
come out for the team and told
me that I could be a good
ballplayer if I’d put my head to
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Smith went out for the team
as a seventh grader, but wasn’t
that happy with Napier’s hard-
work philosophy, and was think-
ing seriously about quitting after
three games.
“He called me into his office,”
Smith recalled, “and told me that
I ought to just hang in there and
that the hard work would all pay
off someday. Now I can see it’s
really paying off and I'm
thankful for that.
“There are a lot of sod
players out there who are in the
same boat,” he continued. “But
they don’t have the people to
talk to them.”
Napier is now coaching at
Ashley Junior High in Gastonia,
but Smith still calls on him for
advice.
“He’s been with me through
thick and thin,” Smith said. “I
still go over to his house a lot to
talk with him about my pro-
blems. He’s helped me the most
of anybody I’ve been assocaited
with.” ih
He says his best friend, and a
teammate on the 1980-81
KMHS team, Paul Ingram, has
also been a big help to him.
“He’s always made me play
harder,” Smith says. “I’d call him
after every game this year, and
tell him what I did, and he’d
always encourage me to do bet-
ter.”
Smith says his biggest disap-
pointment during his high school
career was not getting to the
state finals. The Mounties, rank-
ed number one in the state both
of the past two years, were
bumped off by Burns in the
district tourney last year and by
Shelby in the district this past
CLEMSON, SG- Donald Ig-
webuike booted a 19-yard field
goal with only eight seconds left
in the game Saturday afternoon
to give the Orange a 16-14 vic-
tory over White in Clemson’s an-
nual
webuike it was his third field
goal of the rain-plagued game.
Spring Game. - For Ig-
The field goal capped an ex-
citing day in Death Valley. At
halftime the ‘Associated Press
National Championship Trophy
was presented to the Clemson
team by Herschel Nissenson of
the New York Bureau. Most
Valuable Players in all sports at
Clemson were honored prior to
the game.
Igwebuike opened the scoring
in the second quarter with a
23-yard field goal.
The boot
Rickenbacker
Wins Award
- Priscilla Rickenbacker of Grover
won the women’s softball most
valuable player award at the an-
nual North Carolina Wesleyan
College’s athletic awards ban-
quet Wednesday night.
Rickenbacker was the leading
hitter and led the team in runs
batted in during the past season.
Rickenbacker, a graduate of
Kings Mountain High School,
also plays on the Wesleyan
basketball team and last season
was the team’s most valuable
player and an All-American.
Rickenbacker was also
selected last week to the All-
a
Tournament team after
Wesleyan won the Dixie Inter-
collegiate Athletic Association
‘tourney at Greensboro.
Wesleyan defeated UNC-
Greensboro 3-0 in the title game.
season.
His biggest thrill, he says,
came when the Mounties knock-
ed off top-ranked R-S Central
and broke the Hilltoppers’
43-game winning streak in
January of 1981.
Smith, who_was nicknamed
the “Ice Man” by Napier early in
his junior high career because of
his ability to play well under
pressure, gave the Mounties the
victory when he hit the winning
basket at the buzzer.
Duvall Wins Race
Mike Duvall of Gaffney, S.C,
He
fpicked up his second win of them AY was removed: and examined; thes
* protest was “denied and his third for —_ Candy Albergine’s ten
week Friday night at Carolina
Speedway in Gastonia, winning
the sportsman event of the week-
ly Carolina card after leader Billy
Scott blew a tire and crashed.
Duvall had won the annual
Shrine 100 race two nights
earlier in similar fashion. Kings
Mountain’s Freddy Smith was
leading that event but crashed.
Both Smith and Scott cleared
the wall between the first and se-
cond turns and came to rest in
some woods.
James Burnette finished se-
cond Friday. Freddie Crawford
was third, Butch Bowen fourth
and Bruce Bishop fifth.
Crawford’s finish was protested
by Bishop, but after his engine
place finish stood.
Bud Farris of Clover won the
rookie race. John Pursley was se-
cond and Howard Allred third.
Neal Elliott took the cadet
race, followd by Marion
Crawford, Steve Franklin and
Raymond Crawford.
First place in the street divi-
sion went to Monte Bogan.
David Green, sports editor of the
Gaffney Ledger, was second,
Jim Wyatt third and Butch
Hearst fourth.
Duvall will gun for his third
straight Carolina win Friday.
Gates open at 6 p.m. and racing
begins at 8 p.m.
Patriot Netters Split
Kings Mountain Junior
High'’s tennis team split a pair of
matches during the past week,
defeating East McDowell 8-2
Wednesday before dropping
their first match of the year
Monday at Shelby, 10-0.
The Patriots were scheduled
to travel to West McDowell
yesterday. They return home
Monday to host Shelby in a 3:30
match.
WEDNESDAY MATCH
(Singles)
Jones (KM) def. Skidmore 8-2;
Adams (KM) def. Dillard 64,
7-5; Bailey (EM) def. Lutz 6-2,
6-7, 64; Warlick (KM) def.
Young 6-3, 6-1; P. McGinnis
(KM) def. Mace 64, 6-3; Huff-
stetler (KM) def. Rader 6-1, 6-0.
(Doubles)
Hughes-Ramsey (KM) def.
Morgan-Shaw 84; Patterson-
Murphree (KM) def. Spratt-
Rader 8-3; Austin-K. McGinnis
(KM) def. Yancey-Parker 8-6;
Cross-Burgess (EM) def.
Webster-Harper 84.
MONDAY MATCH
(Singles)
Henshaw (S) def. Jones 64,
6-4; Early (S) def. Lutz 5-7, 6-2,
6-3; Kennedy (S) def. Hughes
6-3, 6-2; Rosenkampff (S) def.
Warlick 64, 4-6, 6-3; Powell (S)
def. P. McGinnis 6-2, 6-3; Ellis
(S) def. Huffstetler 60, 6-3;
Sechrist-Martin (S) def. Ramsey-
Murphree 8-1; Lutz-Brant (8S)
def. Patterson-Wells 8-1;
Geddes-Smith (S) def. Austin-K.
McGinnis 8-3; Arey-Bowles (S)
def. Patterson-Webster 8-0.
or 0g Shelby, fell to 2-2.
Lady Pats
Win Fifth
Kings Mountain Junior
High’s girls softball team scored
13 runs in the bottom of the fifth
inning Thursday to defeat
Shelby 18-7 . and run their
Western Association record to
“Moore hurled ithe win
and also shared game hitting
honors with Leigh Anne Odell
with 3-for<4. Sylvia White and
Melany Herndon had two hits
each and Odell and White hit
" home runs.
Kings Mountain, which trail-
ed until the fifth, had 15 hits and
took advantage of nine Shelby
errors.
The Lady Pats, who are
unbeaten over the past two
years, were scheduled to travel
to Crest Wednesday. They host
West McDowell Thursday at 4
p.m.
Junior High
Whips Shelby
Kings Mountain Junior
High’s baseballers defeated
Shelby 3-1 Thursday on a two-
hitter by Lavar Curry.
Curry struck out seven in giv-
ing the Patriots their fourth win
in five Western Association
outings.
The Pats are tied for first place
with Crest. Those two teams
were scheduled to play yesterday
at Crest. The Pats host West
McDowell Thursday.
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culminated a 16-play, 73-yard
drive that took 7:25 on the
clock. Orangefullback Jeff Mc-
Call was the key figure in the
drive as he -gained 32 yards in
eight carries. A tackle of McCall
behind the line of scrimmage by
middle guard William Perry
helped stop the drive.
The Orange team took a 10-0
advantage later in the quarter on
the most exciting play of the
game. On a first and 10 situation
from his own 34, Orange
quarterback Anthony Parete hit
tight end K.D. Dunn over the
middle and the sophomore-to-be
rambled the remaining yardage
for a 66-yard score and a 10-0
Orange lead.
Homer Jordan led the White
team to a score in the final three
minutes of the first half. The
Athens, GA, native led the
White team 70 yards in nine
plays as he hit 34 passes for 42
yards and ran twice for 23 more
yards on the drive. The All-ACC
quarterback ran nine yards for
the touchdown with only four
seconds left in the half.
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well in the third quarter as only
two first downs were registered
by the two clubs combined. But,
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towards the end of the period the
Orange team mounted another
drive. Billy Green led the Orange
club 51 yards in 11 plays that
ended with another Igwebuike
field goal, this one from 39 yards
out.
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Eppley, who is also the starting
point guard on the Clemson
basketball team, took the White
team 70 yards in only six plays
and a 14-13 White lead. Kevin
Mack, the leading rusher in the
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dle for the score with 6:40 left.
Down, by a point with 6740 to
go, the Orange team mounted an
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