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Late TD Pass Beats Chase 9-6
Quarterback Chris Champion
and end Trent Hullender hooked
up on a 47-yard touchdown pass
with less than two minutes re-
maining in the game Friday
night at Chase to give the Moun-
taineers a 9-6 victory over the
Trojans in Southwestern 3-A
Conference football action.
TRIPLE THREAT - Whether he’s running,
kicking or playing in the defensive secon-
dary. opposing teams don't like to see Curt
The victory was the third
straight for the Mountaineers
and gives them a 4-3 SWC
record and 44 overall mark.
They host R-S Central Friday in
their final game at John Gamble
Stadium. They close out the
season next week at Shelby.
Chase, which fell to 1-6 in the
victory.
Pressley (11) coming their way. Pressley’s
Season Winding Down
Fearless (56- 15) Picks
Raiders And Warriors
By FEARLESS
Here we are coming down to
the final two weeks in picking
the prep pigskin winners and in
general as we head into the
"home stretch, we’ve had another
good year. Not extraordinary -
just good. Well, maybe okay. Or
average. Better than some?
After an 8-1 week last week,
the only misfire being East
Gaston over East Rutherford,
the Fearless One is 56-15 on the
year.
The Fearless jokes have had
to be better - because we got no
nasty telephone calls or letters
with a tiny bomb attached in-
side.
Bo Derek was on the screen
doing a love scene. The usher
came down and told me to stop
smoking. I told him there was no
cigarette in my mouth.
I’ve had plenty of notions. A
notion is a nervous breakdown
on paper.
They laughed wahen I said I
could tell a good joke. But they
stopped laughing when I did tell
a joke.
I mentioned to Wylie Goble of :
the Belmont Community
Theatre recently that I had
* theater in my blood.
Wylie said, “If you go on
there’ll be blood in the theater.”
So I decided to stick to my pro-
fession. And I still haven’t found
out what my profession is yet.
I just wrote a new song called,
“Id rather be a Coward for Five
Minutes than a Corpse for the
Rest of My Life.”
I did write a most unusual
play recently. Nothing happens
for the first 15 minutes. It’s for
people who come to the play
late. R
“I'm a sword swallower. One
. time I really swallowed a sword,”
he told the agent.
The agent was startled. “Real-
ly?” he gasped. “Give you any
trouble?”
“Only when I sit down,” he
said. “I have a little trouble get-
ting up.”
I saw the movie Tobacco
Road so many times. I got
nicotine in my eyes.
A TV commercial is the
“pause that depresses.”
Well, let’s see what we can see
concerning Friday night’s prep
games.
Both South Point and East
Gaston must win their final two
games to finish -at .500 on the
season. Both have tough games
this week. South Point enter-
tains East Rutherford, while
East Gaston takes on Shelby at
Arrowhead Stadium.
South Point has to win its
final two games to avert their
first losing season in the school’s
history. Since Jim Biggerstaff
took over in 1969, they’ve never
had a losing record.
That record is in jeopardy.
However, I look for the Red
Raiders to gird themselves and
do like they did last year - win
their final two and finish at 5-5.
The prediction is for a 20-16
upset win over the Cavaliers, the
second place team in the league
with a 6-1 loop mark and a 7-1
overall record.
East Gaston has played well
for the past two weeks only to
lost to the leagues top two -
teams, Crest and East Ruther-
ford.
I look for them to finish
strong. And I look for the War-
riors to capture a 21-14 win over
Shelby Friday night.
SWC and 1-7 overall, played its
best game of the year before a
large homecoming crowd, and
almost pulled out the win in the
final seconds but ran out of time.
Kings Mountain, which ex-
perienced some bad breaks on all
of its earlier drives, got a good
Photos by Gary Stewart
18-yard field goal Friday night at Chase was
the margin of difference in a 9-6 Mountaineer
And here’s how I see the other
games: Kings Mountain 14, R-S
Central 7; Crest 28, North
Gaston 7; Chase 14, Burns 13;
unbeaten Ashbrook 27, East
Burke 6; South Caldwell 14,
Hunter Huss 13; Bessemer City
' 21, Bandys 6; Fred T. Foard 12,
Cherryville 7; Lincolnton 22,
North Iredell 0; and East Lin-
coln 16, South Iredell 7.
See you next week - the final
week of the season. Have a safe
and happy Halloween. And
don’t forget to turn your clocks
‘back when you go to bed Satur-
day night. :
TOP RUSHER - Tracy Johnson (41). shown
here looking for a receiver to throw a halfback
pass to, has emerged as Kings Mountain
High's top rushing threat in recent weeks.
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break to set up the winning
touchdown. Trailing 6-3 with
2:10 left in the game, Mountie
tackle Vernon Stowe recovered
a Chase fumble at the 47.
On the first play, Champion
dropped back and found
Hullender down the sidelines for
the winning points.
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Still, the Mounties had to
come up with a defensive stand
to nail down the win. Chase
drove right back down the field
behind the running of quarter-
back Derrick Dover and
halfback Darren Keitt and drove
to the KM seven with 30
seconds to play. The Trojans,
Ken Corti; Ben T. Goforth
and Larry Beasley won special
drawings for golf balls and
Clarence Renfroe won a shag
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the KMCC pro shop.
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Mountaineer
Gridgraph
; C
First Downs 15 9
Yds. Rushing 185 118
Passes 4-7 3-10
Tds. Passing 84 48
Passes Int. 0 0
Fumbles Lost 1 1
Punts 435 6-36
Yds. Penalized 112 111
By Quarters:
KM 0 0 3 6-9
C 0 0 6 0-6
Scoring: :
KM-Pressley, 18-field goal.
C-Dover, 1-Run (Kick failed).
KM-Hullender, 47-pass from Champion (Kick failed).
: MOUNTAINEER RUSHING
Player Carries Yards
Tracy Johnson 2F 117
David Parker 11: +45
Curt Pressley 6 18
Chris Champion 3 3:
Thomas Putnam 1 2
KMHS PASSING
Player "Att. Comp. Int. Yds.
Champion 6 3 0 67
Johnson 1 1 0 17
KMHS RECEIVING ;
Player Catches Yds TD
Hullender 1 47 1
Putnam 2 $4423 0
Dixon Nl 17 0
Johnson had his second straight 100-yard
rushing performance last week as the Moun-
taineers edged Chase 9-6. The Mounties host
R-S Central in their last home game Friday.
operating with no timeouts, were
penalized five yards and on the
final play of the game, KM
defenders Curt Pressley and
Brad Reynolds tackled Keitt on
a run up the middle at the eight
yard line.
The Mountaineers, who had
one 60-yard touchdown pass
from Champion to Thomas Put-
nam called back on a penalty,
drew first blood with 5:44 re-
maining in the third period with
an 18-yard field goal by Pressley.
A 17-yard pass from Champion
to Putnam set it up.
Chase came right back and
marched 79 yards and took a 6-3
lead on a one-yard touchdown
run by Dover.
The Mountaineers drove in-
side the Chase 10 on two other
occasions but came away empty-
handed.
Coach Dan Brooks of the
Mountaineers was pleased to
pick up the victory, but was con-
cerned that his team couldn’t
keep its “mental concentration”.
“Chase played awfully well,”
Brooks said, “but our kids just
didn’t give them as much credit
as they should have. They look-
ed at Chase’s record and thought
they weren’t as good a ballteam
as they were.”
The Mounties controlled the
ball on the Trojans, once keep-
ing the pigskin for 19 plays
without getting on the
scoreboard. On two other occa-
sions, the Mounties controlled
the ball for 13 plays and got only
a field goal.
“Our concentration was bad,”
said Brooks. “Mistakes cost us.
We threw a touchdown pass and
had it called back, had a first and
goal at the two and a penalty
called it back and had a first and
goal again and had a holding
penalty.
“But we did get the big break
“atthe end; he added.’ “We
piu a turnover and were able
to hit the long pass to win the
game. We played well at times
but we broke down at critical
times.”
The Mounties held the upper
hand in all offensive categories,
outgaining the Trojans on the
ground, 185 yards to 118, and in
the air, 84 to 48. But the Moun-
ties were penalized 10 times for
112 yards and Chase was flagged
12 times for 111.
Tracy Johnson, who saw only
limited action in the second half
after sustaining an ankle injury,
led all rushers with 117 yards in
21 carries. Pressley, who went
into the game injured, carried
the ball only six times for 18
yards. David Parker had another
sound game at fullback with 45
yards in 11 carries.
Champion hit 3 of 6 passes for
67 yards and Johnson completed
one pass for 17 yards.
“We've been real happy with
our progress the past several
weeks,” Brooks said. “We felt
like we were getting better each
week but we almost took a step
backward this week. We should
have learned a valuable lesson.
“We tried to tell our players
that Chase was a good ballteam
despite its record, and we’ll be in
a similar situation this week. R-S
Central is probably the best 1-7
team in the state. They’ve played
some good ballteams close
games. They played East
Rutherford a one-point game,
just like we did. They’re a good
team and we’re going to have to
play well.”
A victory Friday would assure
the Mounties their first winning
season in three years. They
finished 3-7 each of the last two
seasons after going 8-2 in 1979.
“This is a big game for us,”
said Brooks. “It’s our seniors last
game at home and we really
need it.”
The game has been designated
as “Seniors Night”. Senior
players and their parents will be
recognized.
Brooks is hoping the Mounties
will be at near 100 percent
strength this week. Hullender,
Johnson and Pressley all have
minor injuries but should play.
Johnson, with 752 yards
rushing, has a shot at becoming
the first Mountaineer to have a
1,000-yard rushing season as a
sophomore. He’s gone over 100
yards on three different occa-
sions and had a high of 245
yards against East Gaston.
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