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Classic
Scheduled
The second annual White
Plains Shrine Club Weekend will
be held May 11-13 in Kings
Mountain.
Highlighting the event will be
a l64eam, three-day softball
tournament at City Stadium and
Deal Street Park, and an all-day
barbecue sale on Sat., May 12
beside City Auto and Truck
Parts on Highway 161.
The Shriners raised over
$8.000 in their first annual event
last year, and hope to go far
above that figure this year. All
proceeds will benefit the Shriners
Hospital for Crippled Children
in Greenville, S.C., which treats
burned and crippled children at
no cost to the patient’s family.
Barbecue will be sold on
Saturday beginning at 10 a.m,
Whole shoulders will sell for
$30, barbecue plates will be $3
each and sandwiches will be $1
each. Tickets may be purchased
from any member of the White
Plains Shrine Club, or at City
Auto and Truck Parts, Cham-
pion’s Construction, Home
Federal Savings and Loan and
Linwood Restaurant. For
delivery of tickets, call Carl
Champion’s office at 7399511.
A full line of concessions will
also be available at City Stadium
and Deal Street Park. Ham-
burgers, hot dogs, popcorn and
drinks will be available. “Softball
fans can come out and see some
of the finest softball anywhere,
and have lunch at the ballpark,”
said Carl Champion, who along
with Artie Shoemaker is direc-
ting the softball tourney.
Souvenirs, including “White
Plains Shrine Softball Classic”
T-shirts, will also be sold at the
ballparks.
Shoemaker has lined up some
of the most talented slowpitch
softball teams in the two
Carolinas, including two na-
tional champions and three state
champions.
“There will be no better soft-
ball played in North Carolina
this year than what’s coming to
Kings Mountain for the Shriners
Classic,” said Shoemaker.
EYEING SOFTBALL WEEKEND -
Shriners and softball players are looking for-
ward to May 11-13 when the second annual
White Plains Shrine Classic will be held at Ci-
ty Stadium and Deal Street Park. Some of the
top slowpitch teams in the Carolinas will com-
Local
right, are
Shoemaker,
pete in the event, including defending cham-
Heading the list of entries 1s
defending champion Gastonia
Heating, which won the Na-
tional Open Championship last
year. Shortstop Tim White, who
was most valuable player in last
year’s Shrine Classic, was also
voted most valuable player in
the National Tournament. The
Gastonia team also boasts such
power hitters as David Johnson
and Buck Buchanan, who pro-
mised to put several softballs to
rest in Mountain Rest Cemetery.
“We're going to dedicate all of
our home runs this year to all the
little boys and girls who are not
able to get out and play ball,”
says Johnson.
Fab Masters of (ireensboro,
which finished second to
Gastonia Heating last year, will
return. The Greensboro team
was runner-up to Gastonia
Heating for the N.C. State Open
championship last year and has
been a North Carolina power for
many years.
Loftis Roofing of Greer, S.C.
has entered this year’s event and
will give Gastonia Heating some
stiff competition. Loftis won the
South Carolina State Open
Championship last year and
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pions
LeeRoy’s Frame of Hickory
will be another favorite. They
won the North Carolina Class B
Championship last year after
winning the Hickory City
League championship.
Southern
Charlotte, the defending
Charlotte City League champs,
will return, along with Skidmore
Construction, a long-time
powerhouse in Gaston County.
A darkhorse could be
Blanton’s Barbecue of Fayet-
teville, a newcomer to the KM
field.
Blanton's recently defeated
Howards Furniture of Denver
for the championship of the
Wilmington Azalea Slowpitch
Classic. One of the team’s top
players is homerun hitter
Mickey Morrison, who once
played for Champion’s Land-
scaping of Kings Mountain.
Some of the other favorites
will be Hudson Sports of Lin-
colnton, the defending Lin-
colnton City League Cham-
pions, Electro-Ade of Spartan-
burg, S.C., Carolina Merchants
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pion Gastonia Heating. Pictured above left to
tournament
slugger David Johnson and
Manager Gary Lowe of Gastonia Heating.
and Carl Champion and Tom Tindall of the
White Plains Shrine Club.
director Artie
of Gatonia, the 1983 Gastonia
Industrial League champs, Brad-
shaw Shell of Gastonia, which
was fourth in the Class C World
Tournament last year, Baucom’s
Nursery of Charlotte, a new
team which is comprised of
players from the top three
Charlotte teams, and Keller
Associatesof Charlotte, the 1983
Charlotte City League runner-
up.
Action will get underway Fkri-
day at 6:30, Saturday at noon
and Sunday at 1 p.m. Sunday’s
championship round will be
dedicated to J.D. McDonald, a
former Pharr Yarns = All-
American who recently became
the first North Carolina player
to be named to the ASA Softball
Hall of Fame. McDonald will be
introduced by Bill West of
McAdenville and there will be a
special seating section reserved
for the McDonald family and all
of his former teammates.
McDonald will also throw out
the first ball to start the cham-
pionship game.
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Mounties Drop Final
Two Games Of Season
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contest here. Kings Mountain
collected only six hits, with
Thomas Breakfield, Kevin
Echols, Bridges, Jarvis Young,
Maury Williams and John Yar-
boro getting one apiece.
Kings Mountain scored one
run in the first on Breakfield’s
single, a walk to Kelly Stewart,
and an error. The Mounties add-
ed two more in the fourth on a
single by Echols, double by
Young and a two-run double by
Williams, and they got their last
run in the sixth on Yarboro’s
single, two South Point errors,
and Kelly Stewart’s fielder’s
choice.
Bridges went the distance
Tuesday against East Gaston,
scattering five hits. Clint Wiles
went the distance for the War-
riors, pitching a four-hitter.
East Gaston scored the only
run of the game in the tourth in-
ning on a fielder’s choice.
Kings Mountain had several
scoring opportunities but
couldn’ cash in against the
veteran East Gaston nine.
Todd Cloninger led the KM
hitting with a single ‘and triple.
Richie Gold and Batchler added
singles.
FRIDAY GAME
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Bridges and Yarboro:
Wiles and Carrigan.
Three Teams Winners
In Minor League Play
Optimist defeated the Car-
dinals 124, Plonk Oil defeated
American Legion 264 and
Vitamin Bees edged the Y ankees
6-5 in opening night action of
the Dixie Youth Minor League
baseball season Tuesday night at
Deal Street Park.
Woods and Collins combined
for the pitching win for the Op-
timist Club. Collins also went
2-for-3, including a double and
triple. Rogers hit an inside-the-
park home run and Jackson had
a double and Putnam a single for
the winners.
Steve Parker and Matt Bell
shared pitching duties as Plonk
defeated American Legion. The
winners scored five runs in the
first. inning to put the game on
ice quickly.
Rusty Burgess had two triples
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and two singles to lead the Plonk
hitting attack. Parker added a
double and triple. Smith’s single
was the only hit for the losers.
Jenkins singled in the winning
run in the top of the sixth as
Vitamin Bees edged the
Yankees. He was also the winn-
ing pitcher. Lemmons also had a
single for the winners. Goforth
had a single for the losers.
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