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Junior High Matters
Open Season Next Week
Kings Mountain Junior
High’s wrestling team, defending
champions in the Western N.C.
Junior High Athletic Associa-
tion, will open their season
November 28 at home against
Burns.
Coach Phil Weathers, whose
team has won the Western title
every year of its existence, has a
young, inexperienced team this
year but he hopes the team will
gain enough experience in early
non-conference matches to make
it a strong contender for another
league crown.
The Patriots have six starters
back from last year’s team. They
are 88-pound Allen Moore,
98-pound Tony Parker,
126-pound Darren Schenck,
145-pound Dallas Stacey,
132-pound Timmy Adams and
heavyweight Wayne Brazell.
Other members of the team in-
clude seventh graders Scott
Belcher, Chris Henson, Chad
Leigh, Ray Miller, Reggie Moss,
Joseph Murray, Michael
Payseur, Chris Robbins, Shan-
non Sanders, Shane Sessom,
Tracy Sullens and Sterling
Feaster; eighth graders James
Adams, Dale Bowman, Chris
Brown, Lyn Goddard, Jamie
Griggs, Bradley Henderson, Billy
Messick, Johnny Nations, Clint
Spicer, Antonio Williams and
Thurman Young; and ninth
graders, Travis Bess, David
Davis, Jason Dover, Jimmy Har-
rison, Anthony Hillman, Charles
TO FIGHT SATURDAY - David “The Rock” Humphries of
Kings Mountain, U.S. welterweight kickboxing champion, will
battle Larry Nichols of Pensacola, Fla., in a North American
championship bout Saturday at Charlotte's Park Center.
Tickets are on sale locally at Eng School of Self Defense on
East Gold Street.
David ‘Rock’ Humphries
David “The Rock” Humphries
of Kings Mountain, the U.S.
Superwelter . kickboxing cham-
pion, will battle North American
Champion Larry Nichols of Pen-
sacola, Fla., for the North
American championship Satur-
day night at Charlotte Park
Center. ;
A number of exciting World
Karate Association matches’ are
on the 8 p.m. card. Tickets are
admission; “$10
balcony and $15 ringside.
Tickets are on sale locally at Eng
School of Self Defense on East
Gold Street. :
In addition to: the North
American title bout, several
other title matches are on tap.
David “The! Cobra” Barber of =
Warren Robbins, Ga., the Super
Bantam Weight world champ
. and U.S. Bantam Weight champ,
will fight Davy ‘Jones, ‘the
Alabama State champion; Tony
“The Terror” Smith, the East
Coast middleweight champ, will
battle Ron Woodfin,* the
Alabama state champion; Ray
Price of Forest City will face
“Gary Moore of Lincolnton,
George Rainey of Gaffney will
+ face Gerald Murray of Alabama,
‘Bob Barnes of Dallas will battle
* Perry Baston of Appling, Ga.,
“and “Sugar” Turner of Benson
will face Darren Malone of
Fayétteville. = Every match ex-
cept one will feature a current ti-
tle holder.
~ Humphries, who won his U.S.
title several months ago ina bout
at Kings Mountain High School,
‘has been defending his title
~ recently against some’ of the top
fighters in the southeast.
In September, he defeated
Darren Mallone, a top-ten rated
fighter, in a seven-round fight in
‘To Fight In Charlotte
Raleigh’s Municipal Arena.
Humphries won on a fifth round
TKO with a back kick to the
stomach.
In October, Humphries scored
an impressive fourth round
knockout victory over A.W.
Mohommad, a pro boxer who
was ranked sixth in the world by
the World Boxing Commission.
That fight took place in Florida.
Humphries had been schedul-
ed to fight Willie Ruffin of Lake
Worth, Fla., a top-ten rated op-
ponent, but agreed to fight
Mohommad when Ruffin
couldn’ make weight. Accor-
ding to Humphries’ manager,
Robert Eng III, they did not
know beforehand that Mohom-
mad was a world-ranked profes-
sional boxer.
- Humphries got a standing
eight count on Mohommad in
the first round, working hard on
. the legs and using hooking hand
combinations off the kicks. He
continued to work on the legs
until he recorded a knockout in
the fourth round.
“Not until after the fight did
we find out that Mohommad
was rated number six in the
world with the World Boxing
Commission, and that he was
trained by Chris and Angelo
Dundee at the Fifth Street Gym
in Miami. This was a great win
for us and the boxing world was
very upset,” Eng said.
Humphries’ huge success in
the ring this year has earned him
induction into Official Karate
Magazine’s Hall of Fame. Each
year, the publication selects 10
ofthe best full contact fighters in
the world for the honor.
“This is a great accomplish-
ment for David and a great setp
for this area,” said Eng.
Mauney, Jimmy Sanders, Shawn
Smith, John Turner and Jamie
Y ork.
“Inexperience is going to be
our biggest problem,” said
Weathers. “We have a young
team but they’ve been working
hard in practice. We feel like we
have a long way to go in a short
period of time.”
The Patriots face their
toughest schedule ever this year
with conference foes like Crest
and Shelby and non-conference
toughies like Sullivan, Lin-
colnton, Gaffney and Hudson.
“We’re hoping we can gain
some experience quickly to help
us when we get in our con-
ference: schedule,” Weathers
said. “We’re facing some really
good teams this year. Our con-
ference continues to get stronger
every year.”
THE SCHEDULE
NOVEMBER
28 - Burns
; DECEMBER
3 - Gaffney
5 - W. McDowell*
10 - Sullivan
12 - Crest”
17 - at Gaffney
18 - at Shelby
JANUARY
3 - at Burns”
7 - at Lincolnton
9 - at E. McDowell”
14 - at Sullivan
16- Shelby”
21 - at Hudson
*Conf. matches
All home matches 4 p.m. at
Central School
Classic
Finals
On TV
The Championship game of
the tenth annual WBTV
Carolina Classic basketball tour-..:.
nament will be seen Saturday,
December 1st beginning at 3:30
PM on WBTV, Channel 3.
Participants in. the tourna-
ment, which will be held at the
Winthrop College Coliseum,
November 28-December 1, in-
clude: Barber-Scotia, Belmont
Abbey, Gardner-Webb, Johnson
C. Smith, Lenoir-Rhyne,
Limestone, Livingstone, Pfeiffer,
Wingate and Winthrop.
WBTV’s Sports Anchor Paul
Cameron and the WBTV Sports
Department will provide
coverage of the live Champion-
ship game.
Basketball
Tourney Set
An eight-team,. double-
elimination basketball
ment is scheduled to begin
November 29 at the Kings
Mountain Community Center.
Many of the top former high
school and college players from
this area are expected to play in
the event. One of the teams
entered is the strong Ferest City
team which won the ¢hampion-
ship of the Kings Mountain
Christmas Tournament two
years ago.
Action will get underway on
November 29 at 6 p.m. Any
teams interested in’ participating
should contact George Adams at
7399631. Entry fee is $65.
Registration
Is Underway
Registration for the annual
Kings Mountain Parks and
Recreation Department basket-
ball program is now underway at
the Kings Mountain Communi-
ty Center gym.
Any boy or girl ages eight
through 12 may register from 4
p.m. until 9 p.m. each weekday.
CHURCH MEETING
There will be “a ‘meeting of
church league basketball teams
Monday at 7 p.m. at the Kings
Mountain Community Center:
(downstairs). Volleyball will also’
be discussed. All churches in-
terested in having teams in the
leagues are urged to: have a
representative present.
touran--
Wednesday, November 21,
1984-KINGS MOUNTAIN JERMD Pass 9B
TO PLAY IN ATLANTA - The Kings Mountain Optimist Club junior midget football team
will participate in a bowl game Saturday in Atlanta. Team members include, front row, left
to right, Mark Howard, Ricky Ivey. Billy Appling, Eugene Webber, Virgil Stokes and Paul
Brannon. Second row. Bill Runyan, Kevin Patterson, Shan Ford, Danny Hughes, Rocky
Hamrick, Brian Benfield, Andre Bess, Allen Moore, Kenny Ward. Third row, Donnie Burgess,
Junior Green, Daniel Honeycutt, Chris Putnam, Jeffrey Fowler, Marcus Brooks, Spencer
Brown, Roderick Roberts, Todd Starnes. Back row, assistant coach Dean Brennan, assistant
coach Scott Wells, head coach Jim Littlejohn, assistant coach-business manager Phillip Put-
nam. Not pictured, Roderick McClain and Tommy Weaver.
Optimists To Play In Atlanta
Kings Mountain’s Optimist
Club junior midgets football
team will travel to Atlanta, Ga.,
Friday and Saturday to compete
in the Saints Football
Thanksgiving Classic.
The local team will leave
Kings Mountain Friday and go
to Atlanta to attend an Atlanta
Falcons practice and a photo-
autograph session with ‘Atlanta
players.
Kings Mountain will face the
Mableton, Ga., Tigers Saturday
at 6:45 p.m. The Mableton team
is a member of the Cobb County
League.
Kings Mountain, coached by
Jim Littlejohn, finished 54-1 in
the Greater Gaston County Pop
Warner League this fall. All of
the KM losses except one were
by a touchdown or less.
All three Kings Mountain Op-
timist teams will be participating
in the annual Mountaineer Bowl
Sat., Dec. 1 at John Gamble
Stadium, beginning at 9 a.m. Six
games will be played.
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