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Section B Thursday, November 11, 1982 SPORTS Mountaineer Gridgraph ses WINNING TOUCHDOWN-—Kings Mountain's Jay Schronce streaks into the endzone with the only score of the game Fri- day as the Mountaineers defeated arch rival Shelby 8-0 in overtime in the season's finale for both teams at Shelbys Blan- Southwest Standings Cont. All Teams W-L W-L Crest 90 100 East Ruth. 8-1 9-1 Kings Mtn. 6-3 64 Shelby 6-3 7-3 E. Gaston 4-5 4-6 S. Point 45 46 N. Gaston | 36 4-6 Burns sy Vreadel i 37 Chase 29 28 R-S Central 18 19 LAST WEEK'S RESULTS Kings Mtn. 8, Shelby 0 Crest 31, R-S Central 9 E. Gaston 26, Burns 6 S. Point 45, Chase 14 East Ruth. 20, N. Gaston 6 Photo by Gary Stewart ton Memorial Stadium. The Mounties ended with five straight victories and tied Shelby for third place in the final Southwestern 3-A Conference standings. Finish Tied For Third KM S First Downs 14 7 Yds. Rushing 217 109 Passes 4-10-1 1-110 Yds. Passing 55 5 Fumbles Lost 0 1 _ Punts 5-22 448 Yds. Penalized 95 61 By Quarters 3 KM 0 0 0 0 8-8 S 0 06 0 0 0-0 KM - Schronce, 11 pass from Champion (Johnson run). KMHS RUSHING Player Carries Yards Curt Pressley 21 122 David Parker 8 42 Tracy Johnson 10 42 Thomas Putnam 1 10 Mike Grier 1 4 Chris Champion 4 3 KMHS PASSING Player - Att. Comp. Int. Yds. TD Champion NT 3 1 43 1 Johnson 3 1 0 12 0 KMHS RECEIVING Player Catches Yds. TD Schronce 2 23 1 Dixon 1 21 Lino Hullender 1 11 0 Mounties Blank Lions 8-0 In OT End Jay Schronce of Kings Mountain made the only touchdown reception of his career in overtime Friday night to give the Mountaineers an 8-0 victory. over Shelby in the Southwestern 3-A «Conference finale for both teams at Shelby’s Blanton Memorial Stadium. The victory by the Moun- taineers put the two arch rivals tied for third place in the final SWC standings with 6-3 records. Shelby finished 7-3 overall and the Mounties were 6-4 overall. Schronce’s 11-yard catch from quarterback Chris Champion gave the Mounties a five-game winning streak to close out the season. They were 14 at the halfway mark. Both teams threatened but couldn’t quite get on the board during regulation play. Kings Mountain got the first crack at scoring from the 10-yard line in overtime. After a holding penalty on first down pushed the Mounties back to the 22, Champion im- Photos by Gary Stewart - LEADING RUSHER—Kings Mountain's Curt 3-A Conference football game with Shelby. Pressley (11) runs for some of his game-high The Mounties won 8-0 in overtime. 122 yards rushing in Friday's Southwestern Toney Wins Contest Barry Toney of P.O. Box 73, Grover, hit the tie-breaker on the nose to win last week’s Herald football contest. Toney predicted 16 of 20 win- ners in area high school and col- lege football games. Others pick- ing 16 of 20 were Pat Spearman of Kings Mountain, Gary Buff of Shelby, Angela Queen of Kings Mountain and Ralph Lowery of Kings Mountain. Toney predicted that 29 points would the scored in the North Carolina-Clemson game, won by the Tigers 16-13. Toney missed Bunker Hill’s win over Bessemer City, Cherryville over West Lincoln, York over Clover and Notre Dame over Pitt- sburgh. Spearman missed BC-Bunker Hill, Pitt-Notre Dame, LSU over Alabama and Air Force over Ar- my, and predicted 23 on the tie- ‘breaker. Buff missed BC-Bunker Hill, West Lincoln-Cherryyville, York-Clover and Pitt-Notre Dame and picked 38 on the tie- breaker. Queen missed West Lincoln-Cherryville, Pitt-Notre Dame, Alabama-LSU and Washington over UCLA and picked 43 on the tie-breaker. Lowery missed East Gaston over Burns, BC-Bunker Hill, West Lincoln-Cherryville and Georgia Tech over Virginia and picked 55 on the tie-breaker. The results of the games were Kings Mountain over Shelby, Crest over R-S Central, East Gaston over Burns, South Point over Chase, East Rutherford over North Gaston, Ashbrook over Hunter Huss, Bunker Hill over Bessemer City, Cherryville over: West Lincoln, Clover over York, Penn State over N.C. State, Notre Dame over Pitt, Florida State over South Carolina, Maryland oyer Miami, LSU over Alabama, Georgia over Florida, Georgia Tech over Virginia, Duke over Wake Forest, Clemson over . North Carolina, Air Force over. Army and Washington over UCLA. mediately went to the air. Trent Hullender caught a short pass and bulled his way to the 11, and then Schronce caught another short pass and streaked into the endzone ° untouched for the Av touchdown. Tracy Johnson ran for a two-point conversion. After an illegal motion penal- ty pushed Shelby back to the 10 on fourth down, the Lions also attempted to go to the air. But Kings Mountain’s secondary had all the Lion receivers well- covered and quarterback Bill Gamble tried to roll around left end for the score. Linebacker Tommy Welch of the Mounties ran him down at the two to end the game. The Mounties had two good drives halted earlier. In the first half, they drove to the Shelby 15 before losing the ball on downs. They had two plays to pick up one foot, but Shelby’s strong defensive front stopped two straight runs into the middle of the line. : Late in the game, after conver- ting a fourth and one at their own 30, Pressley broke loose on a 41-yard run to the Shelby 25 before being knocked out of bounds. After a 15-yard penalty, Shelby halted the drive with an interception at the 19. The Lions also missed a cou- ple of good scoring oppor- tunities. A 32-yard field goal at- tempt by Jack Secrest in the third period fell just inches short following a bad placement. That attempt was set up after the Lion defense blocked a Kings Moun- tain punt. : ih SETS UP TD—Kings Mountain end Trent Hullender (7) fights for yardage after catching a pass from Chris Champion in overtime in Friday's game with Shelby. Hullender's “and first and Midway of the fourth period, the Lions gained life after Kings Mountain roughed the kicker on a punting attempt and drove in- side the KM 10. But Kevin Toms fumbled at the 12 and Kings Mountain’s Brad Reynolds recovered. i The Mountaineer defense heldthe Lions’ high-powered running attack to just 109 yards rushing. Toms was the Lions’ leading rusher with 52 yards in 16 carries and the Mounties held Shelby’s big fullback, Randy Heffner, to just 27 yards in nine attempts. Although he felt his men should have won the game in regulation, Coach Dan Brooks of the Mounties was still overjoyed with the victory. “Shelby had a real fine ballteam,” he said. “We had a real good team effort. The backs ran hard and Chris played real well at quarterback. I hate it that he’s a senior because he really came along and developed into a fine high school quarterback.” The Mountaineers held the upper hand in all offensive statistics. Junior tailback Curt Pressley led the rushing for the second straight week with 122 yards in 21 carries and the Mounties hit on 4-of-10 passes for 55 yards. Penalties again hurt the Mounties in key situa- tions. “We had a lot of first and 25s 15’s,”Brooks said.“It wasn’t the same people causing the penalties. We always made a critical mistake when we got in good position. Last week, I thought we’d cut down on our "mistakes, but we still made a lot of them. But I was real pleased with the team effort and was real pleased with the defense.” “Shelby does a lot of things on offense,” he continued. “We were real worried about their quarterback. He throws the ball well deep. But they didn’t have anybody open deep all night. Curt Pressley, Thomas Putnam and Zack Roseboro all did a real fine job in the secondary. “Our offensive line did a good job, too,” he went on. “Shelby does a lot of things on defense and we didn’t block the right people all of the time. But we gave a big effort on every play.” Brooks praised the players for their hard work during practice last week and his assistant coaches for preparing the team. “It was a great team effort all the way,’ he said. “Everybody worked hard. Not many groups of kids would be 14 and then finish 64. I'm real proud of all of them. “It was a good finish to a season that started pretty slow,” he went on. “You have to praise the players for not giving up. As it turned out, one point kept us out of the playoffs. If the two- point conversion at East Ruther- ford (East won 7-6) had worked or if the field goal that we kicked had not been nullified on a penalty, we’d be in the playoffs right now.” 11-yard reception set up the game winning ll-yard TD pass from Champion to Jay Schronce as the Mounties edged the Lions 8-0.
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