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=n Page 4A-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Monday, December 24, 1984 'KMHS Cagers Face Non-Conference Foes Kings Mountain High’s basketballers take a “breather” from Southwestern 3-A Con- ference warfare this week by playing against some tough 4-A competition. The Mountaineers, 5-0 in the SWC and tied with R-S Central’s Hilltoppers for first place, travel to South Point Thursday to face Ashbrook’s Green Wave. In another game Thursday at South Point, the Red Raiders play’ Hunter Huss. On Friday, the two 3-A clubs swap opponents, with Kings Mountain battling Huss and South Point taking on Ashbrook. Although the pair of Gastonia teams are strong and capable competition for any foe, the PAUL CAMERON WBTV Sports Director games will give the Moun- taineers a chance to ‘catch their breath before the stretch run of the rugged SWC slate. The Mountaineers of Coach Larry Sipe return to conference action on Fri., Jan. 4 at East Ruther- ford. Lavar Curry, one of only two seniors on Sipe’s squad, leads the Mountaineers in scoring with 20-plus points per game, and he’s one of the top performers in the SWC. But Sipe, who geared his charges for the tough SWC race last summer by entering them in the Summer Basketball League at Cherryville, also has some talented younger players in Aubrey Hollifield, Jerry Jordan, Darryl Crocker, Edwin Sherer and others. The Mountaineers, 6-1 overall, have been ranked in some North Carolina prep polls and are hoping to give perennial champion R-S Central a challenge for the league crown. Kings Mountain’s girls, who are rebuilding under second-year coach Diana Bridges, return to action Saturday in a 7 p.m. con- test at Hunter Huss. The Mountainettes are 14 in the SWC and 2-6 overall. They won their season’s opener against Garinger in the West Mecklenburg Tipoff Tourna- ment and then lost six games in a row before breaking the ice against East Gaston, 45-42, last Tuesday night. ; Doreen Pettus, one of only two returning starters, has been the scoring and rebounding leader for the Mountainettes thus far but Bridges will be look- ing for improved play from other team members as the KM ladies enter the second half of con- ference action. The KMHS wrestlers, 1-1 in the SWC and 3-2 overall, also resume action this week in Satur- day’s Cleveland County Invita- tional Tournament at Crest. The Mountaineers resume con- ference action on Jan. 3 at home against Crest. NCAA Titles Aren’t Ours Outlaw Boxing? It’s a Goofy Idea So the American Medical Association wants to ban boxing. This may be the goofiest idea since doctors used to bleed dying patients years ago. If the AMA wants to do something useful, let ‘em find a way to cut skyrocketing medical costs...Point guard Jeff Lebo, who has signed with UNC, must be a beaut. Al McGuire says, “If Lebo makes a mistake on the fast break, it'll be his first one”... When asked why he used to run O.J. Simpson so much at Southern Cal, Coach John McKay replied: ‘Why not? The ball’s not heavy’. * * * ‘The coaches box, which some dummy at the NCAA ordered this year, should be scrapped. Can you picture Lefty Driesell or Jim Valvano or Bobby Knight “fenced in’’ along the sideline? Valvano's right. It’s the dumbest rule in college basketball... The Tar Heels may wind up with 3 of the top 5 prep players in the nation. They've signed Jeff Lebo and Kevin Madden, and have a good shot at for- ward Danny Ferry. “Ferry”, says Howard Garfinkel of the famed Five-Star Camps, ‘is the best all-round high school player in America today”. * * * In Art Baker, East Carolina has a winner. But until some explana- tion is given for the abrupt firing of Ed Emory, the university's credibility will continue to be questioned. You just don't treat peo- ple that way...If the NFL let Doug Flutie escape to the Canadian League, that'll really tell us something about the plastic mannequins who control pro football...Just thinking: If House Speaker Tip + O'Neill had been a coach, he'd have been fired 20 years ago... ‘If i you don’t tell Howard Cosell how good he is, then he'll tell you, said the late Red Smith. I can’t get over those young-boy faces of Shrine Bowl players affixed to bodies as big and as well-developed as the pro’s. Some of these kids can bench-press 400 pounds or more. How much big- ger and better can these young'uns get?... Remember the name Tim Worley. The big back was contained in the Shrine Game, but he’s gonna be super in college. So is Mark Young of Belmont. Some predict he'll be another Freddie Solomon...Early thought: Clem- son may be a lot better than expected in basketball this year. The Billy Packer, the Wake Forest graduate who is generally considered the top basketball analyst in the nation, recently said that he believes foreign athletes should not be allowed to participate in college sports. Said Billy, in an article which appeared in USA TODAY, “We are compounding recruiting problems by bringing in foreign players...they take away scholarships from American kids, and I think there are _ (recruiting) horror stories still to come....this is our national champion- ship, not the international championship.” My feelings on this are similar to those expressed by LSU Coach Dale Brown who said “Billy, a good friend of mine, is in the Stone Age. Talk like that is ludicrous....” I have a lot of respect for Billy Packer, but I cannot at all understand + his thinking on this. Is this much different from those who were saying-not that long ago-that Blacks shouldn’t be allowed to com- pete? It is dangerous when people start thinking about OUR this and OUR that, and then go on to exclude others from OUR things. Although Packer: is known for his careful, thoughtful commentary, I can’t believe he was seeing the whole picture when he made these statements. Should Duke’s Dan Meagher be banned from playing? He’s from Canada. Is Canada different? Or is Canada AS FOREIGN as Nigeria - (where Houston’s Olajuwon came from) or West Germany (where In- diana’s Uwe Blab comes from)? I don’t think Billy Packer stopped to think that the NCAA cham- pionships are not OURS; they are UNIVERSITY championships. Our universities have always had foreign students, foreign professors, and foreign lecturers and artists-in-residence. Most of our major univer- sities have exchange programs with foreign universities. Thousands of our students are enrolled in “Junior Year Abroad” programs. Nearly any educator—if not common sense-will tell you that students, universities and countries have benefitted from the open door policies which universities throughout the world have maintain- ed. And to try to interfere with this policy because of some concern that there may be a recruiting abuse somewhere is indeed what Coach Brown called it, “ludicrous.” Nevertheless, Billy claims “Everyone I talk to agrees with me on this, except about tour coaches who are recruiting foreign players.” Who has Billy been talking to? Sponsored By Wade Ford ACC INSIDE STUFF Dick DeVenzio I have had personal experience in helping bring two foreign players to this country—Randy Wiel, who got a basketball scholarship to the University of North Carolina in “76 (and graduated in four years) and Tico Cooper, a 6’8” talent who is presently in Junior College in Pitt- sburgh. It was wonderful to be in a foreign land, to meet a couple of special and talented individuals like these, and to be able to offer them a chance they did not have—through basketball-to get an education and to make the most of their athletic and human potential. Both of them have enriched my life and the lives of many other Americans by their coming here, by their appreciation of our country, and by their example of hard work and diligence. It is difficult for me to understand how someone usually as thoughtful and intelligent as Billy Packer could have so narrow a view. But since he said everyone he has talked to agreed with him, I feel obliged to give another view. College basketball is not OUR basketball, it is UNIVERSITY . basketball. And our universities, thankfully, are not so narrow as to restrict who can attend or what extra-curricular activities they are free to participate in. ) I am especially looking forward to the great rematch (from the NCCA playoffs last year) of Washington ‘and Duke on January 12. The fact that a Canadian and two West Germans (Detlef Schrempf and Christian Welp) will be in the line-ups won’t bother me at all. Will they bother you? Tigers aren't great, but they aren't patsies, either. * When John Lucas of Durham, the Houston Rockets’ point guard, showed traces of cocaine in his system and was canned, | thought: “What an athlete; what a waste”...If you want some marvelous sports reading to start the year, pick up Roger Kahn's “The Boys of Summer’ —about the fabled Brooklyn Dodgers of the early ‘50s. It has been around for years and may be the best sports book ever written. Another “oldie” is George Plimpton’s “Paper Lion’; you'll laugh ‘til you cry reading this one. * * (Wanna talk sports? Write me at WBTV, Charlotte 28208. (Ed. note: Paul Cameron can be seen on the 6 and 11 pm news on Channel 3.) Series Of Meetings To Deal With Wildlife If you question some of North Carolina’s hunting, trapping or fishing regulations, would like to see changes in them, or would like to discuss wildlife and fisheries management programs with biologists and enforcement officers with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, your chance to be heard is com- ing up. North Carolina’s sport- smen are being urged to attend one of a series of public meetings, dealing with hunting, trapping and fishing regulations, that are being held across the state. The meetings for Wildlife District Eight (Avery, Mitchell, Yancey, McDowell, Burkey, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, Cleveland and Ruther- ford counties) will be held on Thursday, January 3rd at the Courthouse in Gastonia; on Tuesday, January 8th at Isother- mal Community College in Spin- dale; on Thursday, January 10th at the Courthouse in Lenoir; on Tuesday, January 15th at the Courthouse in Marion; and on Thursday, January 17th at the Courthouse in Burnsville. Each of the meetings will begin at 7:00 p.m. According to Dr. John Hamrick of Shelby, Wildlife Commissioner for the District, the purpose of the meetings is to allow sportsmen an opportunity to offer suggestions on regula- tions while the hunting and trap- ping seasons are still fresh in their minds. Dr. Hamrick says that in the past the Wildlife Resources Commission has received some excellent sugges- tions from sportsmen at official public hearings which are held in March, but often in the past hasn’t had enough time to review and develop those sug- gestions into regulation charges for the following fall’s hunting and trapping seasons. He says the January meetings may allow the Commission to do that in some cases. 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