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Page 2B-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday, November 17. 1983 .
More About Football
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Orange Bowl game and George Harris, who quarterbacked KMHS in
the 1950s, played in the Sugar Bowl with Duke in 1958.
The selection of all-star teams is usually one thing that gets under
my skin.
Kings Mountain, it seems, is always the team that gets the short end
of the stick.
The AllSouthwestern 3-A Conference team, announced this week,
shows only three Mountaineers and no players from East Gaston,
Burns, Chase and R-S Central. But Crest and Shelby placed 10 and
seven players, respectively.
One of the players left off the team was Kings Mountain’s Curt
Pressley, who led the SWC in rushing through the first seven games,
and still finished as the league’s number two rusher despite a late-
season injury.
Tracy Johnson, Shawn Rainey and Steve Falls of the Mountaineers
gained much-deserved all-conference honors and KMHS coach Denny
Hicks was cocoach of the year after leading the Mounties to a 64
finish in his first season as head coach.
At least two other Mountaineers—offensive tackle Dale Moore and
defensive end Brad Reynolds—should have been on the team. Another
outstanding young football player who was slighted was quarterback
Mark Young of South Point, by far the best quarterback in the con-
ference.
But, as long as all-star teams are selected, some good players will be
left off.
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Kings Mountain coach Denny Hicks must still be pulling his hair
out and wondering what went wrong with the Mountaineers this fall.
After a strong start, the Mountaineers struggled late in the year and
let a state playoff berth slip out of their grasp.
The 64 record was good by most people’s standards, but had they
been consistent the Mountaineers could have finished at least 8-2.
They should have beaten Ashbrook and R-S Central and had they
taken advantage of early breaks, the Mounties could have turned the
Crest and Shelby games around. In both of those losses, the Mounties
got the early breaks but couldn’t cash in. Then, they turned the ball
over to their opponents and Crest and Shelby took advantage.
But, as they say, hindsight is always better that foresight, and if ifs
and buts were candy and nuts, what a wonderful Christmas we’d have.
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With the football season history, I'll be waiting anxiously for
December 15, the first day colleges can sign football players for next
year.
Curt Pressley of the Mountaineers is being highly recruited and
could follow Kevin Mack as Kings Mountain’s next contribution to
major college football.
Dale Moore is also capable of playing major college ball and will
likely be inked. Several other Mountaineers would make good small
college players. :
I'll also be looking closely at next year’s NFL draft. Although some
say his 197-pound size will hurt him, I look for Kevin Mack to go high
in the draft.
KM’s Freddy Smith To Run In Turkey 100 At Concord
CONCORD, N.C. One of the
first entrants for the Nov. 26-27
Turkey 100 at Concord Speed-
way is Buck Simmons, the only
two-time winner of the annual
event.
Simmons, of Baldwin, Ga.,
will drive a Pontiac Firebird
prepared by veteran dirt track
car builder Barry Wright of Spar-
tanburg, S.C. in the 6th edition
of this post Thanksgiving race,
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STUFF
By DICK DEVENZIO
Georgia Tech, Clemson;
Two Undefeated Teams
Ater watching Georgia Tech and Clemson practice recently,
one thought kept recurring to me that will likely seem strange in-
itially. Both teams are currently undefeated—and it shows.
What I am talking about is the joy of pre-season practice.
Everyone is getting lots of playing time, everyone has high hopes,
and no one has lost to another team yet.
Coaches tend to get nervous and on edge (with a realization that
tough, loseable games are just ahead) before players do, but in
Atlanta and in Clemson, even the coaches are still very upbeat and
positive.
The scene at Georgia Tech was nearly euphoric-with the early
signing of Duane Ferrell (of Baltimore) and Bud Adams (of Atlan-
ta) and a team scrimmage showing the obvious coming of age of
Georgia Tech basketball’ * # fie to ‘ ; &
Mark Price of course was leading fast breaks and hitting that
quick-release jumper, looking like the ACC star that he is, and
Bruce Dalrymple, the freshman, seems already comfortable as a
college basketball player. He is solid ACC material as expected.
Then there’s John Salley, looking extremely capable inside, and
much more confident than last year. That’s an excellent nucleus—
perhaps enough to take them all the way to the third in the con-
ference.
They have almost the team quickness of Wake Forest, and pro-
bably more depth.
Craig Neal is a freshman guard who can play with anyone, An-
thony Byrd is back and better than last year. In the middle, neither
Tim Harvey, the probably starter, nor Yvon Joseph, will make
Tech the equivalent of Maryland or Carolina inside, but they’ll
both do a lot of damage on given nights.
The question is, on how many nights can they do it?
You have to keep remembering the pre-season euphoria.
Everyone looks good. People feel confident. They're all playing
their game. A pass off a leg or out of bounds isn’t so bad right now.
But it will be different soon, when a bad pass may mean being
removed from a game. Then, playing time diminishes, and people
get tentative.
Six weeks from now the Harveys, Neals, Petways, Byrds, and
Josephs likely won't look so good-not even in practice.
I particularly like Coach Bobby Cremins’ way of relating to his
players in practice, but now that his program is on solid footing, he
has a new batch of problems-not enough playing time to go
around.
At Clemson, the atmosphere was similar to that at Tech, and so
are the problems. There were no big, early signings, but at Clem-
son, the battle cry is “Vince is back,” referring to Vince Hamilton,
the star guard who was injured Ist year, but who looks terriffic
now.
I don’t remember how many breakaway slam dunks he had dur-
ing the scrimmage I saw, but it was clear that Vince is going to be
outstanding. Raymond Jones is back at strong forward; Anthony
Jenkins and Chris Michael are locked in an impressive dual for a
starting spot at small forward.
Tough, leaping Murray Jarman is needed for rebounding and so
is center Glen McCants. So where does Coach Foster put Warren
Wallace, probably the team’s best defender? And what about
Clarke Bynum?
He's excellent against a cone defense because he can pass so well
from the high post area. Leadership at guard should come from
Marc Campbell, the Senior, or from Mike Eppley, the football
quarterback.
But David Shaffer, at 6’7” is being used as point guard too-a
position where he looks surprisingly comfortable.
Imagine the problems Clemson can give to the teams trying to
use the offensive skills of their tiny point guars, some of whom are
a foot smaller than Shaffer.
In the present state of euphoric pre-season, Coach Foster ap-
pears to have a lot of depth and everything he needs except for a
strong inside scorer. But all these winning ingredients are scattered
among ten players.
There’s no clear starting five and probably never will.
Y ou have to wonder if, soon, Foster may not have anything but
Vince Hamilton and about ten other tentative players who all
think they should be playing more.
The way Foster handles so many players with different skills to
contribute should be the most interesting coaching story of the
ACC season.
This Column Sponsored
By Wade Ford
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which will post a total purse of
better than $20,000.
Simmons just missed winning
a third Turkey 100 a year ago at
the fourtenths-mile dirt track,
but was relegated to a runner-up
finish behind Jack Pennington,
who took the lead with two laps
to go when Simmons developed
engine problems.
Freedy Smith, winner of the
Turkey 100- the second of four
Turkey 100 races that were held
at Metrolina Speedway-led 70
of the 100 laps that made up last
year’s race, but surrendered the
lead to Simmons because of a cut
tire with just nine laps to go.
SWC Players
On Shrine Team
Three Southwestern 3-A Con-
ference football players were
selected to the North Carolina
Shrine Bowl team which was an-
nounced Monday.
Honored were running back
Eric Starr of East Rutherford,
tackle Jeff Hojnacki of Shelby
and end Kevin Laye of Crest.
Hojnacki and Laye led their
teams into the state 3-A playoffs.
Crest lost its Division I battle last
week to Lincolnton, 14-12, while
Shelby scored a 35-0 victory
over North Iredell in Division II
play.
Starr played for a losing team
(3-6-1) but was among the best
players in the league both en of-
fense and "defense. He gained
over 1,000 yards. rushing andi
was the league’s fourth highest
rusher behind Buster Benton of
North Gaston and Curt Pressley
and Tracy Johnson of Kings
Mountain.
The North Carolina all-stars,
coached by Danny Williams of
East Burke, will face the South
Carolina all-stars in the annual
Shrine Bowl battle at Charlotte
Memorial Stadium on December
10.
Mounties
All SWC
From page 1
Gary Robinson of East Gaston
and Tim Nance of Crest.
Chapman was the player of
the year and Stacy Lail of R-S
Central was coach of the year.
Kings Mountain placed two
players on the all<conference
girls tennis team. They were
Leigh Ann Odell and Robin
Warlick, who occupied the 1-2
positions in singles and were the
Mountainettes’ top doubles
team. They advanced to the
Western Regionals Tournament.
Others selected were Kathy
Miller of Burns, Becky Bryson of
Crest, Kami Hosteller of Eat
Gaston, Yvonne Ungvarsky of
East Rutherford, Bethy Thorn-
burg of North Gaston, Jeanne
Stroud of R-S and Jill Powell
and Kristin Rosenkampff of
Shelby. Powell was the player of
the year and KM native Kay
Bridges of North Gaston was
coach of the year.
Registration
Scheduled
Registration for the (1984)
Youth Basketball Program,
sponsored by the City of Kings
Mountain Parks and Recreation
Department is now underway at
the Kings Mountain Communi-
ty Center gynasium. Any boy or
girl ages 8,9, years old or 11, 12
years old may register between 4
pm. and 9 p.m. beginning
Wednesday, November 16.
Registration will end the follow-
ing Wednesday, November 23,
at 9:00 p.m. A five dollars
registration fee is asked from any
child to take advantage of the
registration dates. For more in-
formation, contact George
Adams at 739-9631.
All three of those drivers are
expected to be on hand to try for
the $3,000 winner’s purse in the
Nov. 27, 100dap Late Model
Sportsman feature; -along with
Larry Moore, also a former
Turkey 100 winner.
Other top Late Model drivers
expected include Hayward
Plyler, Ernie Irvan, Doug Os-
teen, Alan Weises, Randy Mor-
rison and Joe Meadows.
The, two-days, season-ending
race card is expected to draw
stellar fields in all four divisions
which are slated for action, Late
Model Semi Modified, Bobby
and Super Stock.
The used car
buyers guide.
LIL TY ET
1978 DODGE MAGNUM
3220 — —
$25.00 $25.00 $25.00 $25.00 $25.00 $25.00 $25.00 $25.00
1975 GRAN TORINO
$2220
These cars will be reduced $25.00 each day until sold.
Try Us We're Easy.
83 THUNDERBIRD ... $10,999
Light blue, blue luxury cloth in-
terior, power seats, windows,
door locks, tilt wheels, speed
control, stereo, only 3,000 miles
on this lady driven Shelby car,
traded in on ‘84 model.
83 THUNDERBIRD .....$10,999
Light blue, blue luxury cloth in-
terior, power seats, windows,
door locks, tilt wheels, speed
control, stereo, only 3,000 miles
on this lady driven’ Shelby car,
traded in on ‘84 modal. Psy R
Dark blue, 6 cylinder, automatic
overdrive transmission, power ¢
steering and brakes, air condi-
tioned, stereo, mag type wheels,
sharp local one owner, 9,600
miles, still in factory warranty car.
T-BIRD ..........$AVEBIG
Automatic transmission, power
steering and brakes, air condi-
tioned, power windows and
seats, leather interior.
MUSTANG ..........$7895
2-Door Hardtop. 4 cylinder,
automatic transmission, power
steering, power brakes, factory
air, radio, whitewall radial tires,
red, red bucket seats, two to
choose from.
ESCORT 4-DOOR ... ... $7195
Automatic transmission, power
steering, power brakes, factory
air. Light Academy Blue, blue in-
terior, tinted glass. AM-FM radio,
body side moulding.
FORD GRANADA $7395
cone
GL. 4-Door. White with white lan-
dau vinyl roof, walnut vinyl in-
terior, reclining seats, power
steering, power brakes, factory
air, power windows, AM-FM
stereo. Sharp car.
ESCORT 4-DOOR ... ... $5395
4 cylinder, 4 speed, radio,
heater, sharp one owner Maroon
Kings Mountain car.
ESCORT GL WAGON. . $4995
AM/FM, air conditioned, 4 spee
transmission, one Kings Moun-
tain owner, silver.
BUICK .............. 36795
Century Squire Wagon. V6,
automatic tronsmission, power
steering, power brakes, air con-
ditioned, all power, woodgrain
trim, Charlotte one owner, dark
red.
BUICK SKYLARK. . . ...$6295
4-door, burgundy, white vinyl
roof, burgundy interior, power
steering and brakes, automatic
transmission, factory air,
whitewall tires, sharp.
ESCORT WAGON ....$5495
4 cylinder, automatic, power
steering, power brakes, air con-
dition, blue. One Gastonia
owner.
PINTO.............. $3695
3-door Runabout, dark blue,
medium blue vinyl trim,
automatic transmission, power
steering and brakes, factory air,
whitewall tires, wheel covers,
only 37,000 miles, sold new by us.
FORD T-BIRD canis 34935
automatic transmission,
power steering, power brakes,
air conditioned, power windows
ond seats, stereo with built in
C.B., 46,000 miles, extra nice,
dove grey with grey vinyl roof.
79
BUICK LeSABRE.. . ..
Limited, 4-door, V8, automatic
transmission, power steering and
brakes, air conditioned, velour
interior, dark green with light
green vinyl roof, sharp car.
MUSTANG GHIA...
3-door, automatic transmission,
power brakes and steering, air
conditioned, leather interior,
sharp local car.
PONTIAC PHOENIX
78
“Aldor; gutormatic; transmission iif
TBIRD... l..... §9695.i2
power: steering sand. brakes, fac-
fory ‘air, whitewall tires, rally
wheels, medium blue with blue
vinyl interior, clean.
LTD 4-DOOR.......
V8 automatic, power steering,
power brakes, air condition,
yellow with brown vinyl roof and
interior. Good clean local car.
MONTE CARLO ....
2-door, automatic transmission,
power steering, power brakes,
air conditioned, nice brown car
with dark brown vinyl top.
FORD ELITE. .......
2-door hardtop, V8, automatic
transmission, power steering,
power brakes, air conditioned,
red with dark red top, good local
automobile.
TRUCKS
BRONCO ........$11,795
4 speed, air conditioned, power
steering and brakes, speed con-
trol, stereo with cassette, 13,000
one owner miles, sharp, black
with red interior.
FORD F100 XLT.....$10,995
Long wheel base. V8, automatic
transmission, power steering,
power brakes, air conditioned,
AM/FM stereo with cassette,
aluminum wheels, fiberglass
camper cover, deluxe two tone
blue and white, 13,000 miles one
Kings Mountain owner, chrome
bumpers, sharp!
F-100 PICKUP... ......$7995
6 cylinder, automatic transmis:
sion, power steering, power
brakes, air conditioned, stereo,
light beige with beige knitted
vinyl seats, new whitewall tires,
31,000 Kings Mountain miles.
FORD COURIER ......$599
4 cylinder, 4 speed transmission,
sliding rear window, AM-FM $
stereo, whitewall tires, bed liner,
6,000 Kings Mountain miles, ex-
tra clean.
COURIER PICKUP. . . . . $4695
4 cylinder, 4 speed, brown, extra
clean.
F100 CUSTOM PICKUP $4495
Long. bed, 6 cylinder, 3 speed,
power steering, West Coast mir-
rors, whitewall tires, step
bumper, red.
COURIER. ...........$3995
long bed, white with blue
stripes, air conditioned, rear step
bumper.
C-10 CHEVY VAN ....$5895
automatic transmission,
power steering, power brakes,
one local Kings Mountain owner,
dark brown and tan.
JEEPCI5.........;.. $3995
Automatic transmission, go
solid jeep, blue.
See: Harold Grier, Sales Manager; Bill Houser,
Wade Tyner, Gerald Herndon, Ron Gregory,
Mark Kiser, Business Manager
Highway 74. Kings Mt.. N.C.